Clinical trial NCT05236179: Survey of Inpatients on Integrative Therapy Methods
Official title: Patient Survey on Integrative Therapy Methods - a Cross-sectional Study of Hospital Inpatients
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Patient Satisfaction and Experience With Integrative Therapies
Keywords: Integrative therapies
Anthroposophic medicine
Overall patient satisfaction
Inpatients
Survey
Lead sponsor: ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-02-11
Enrollment: 127
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Inpatients of the Filderklinik who have received at least 10 treatments with one or more of the various integrative therapy methods used at the Filderklinik.

Brief summary: Observational study of general patient satisfaction and inpatients' experiences with integrative therapies. The study recruits inpatients of the Filderklinik, an anthroposophic hospital in southwestern Germany. The aim is to assess overall patient satisfaction and inpatients' experiences with integrative therapies at the Filderklinik.

Detailed description: This is a cross-sectional study to investigate general patient satisfaction and inpatients' experiences with integrative therapies in an anthroposophic hospital. Participants will be recruited at the Filderklinik, a hospital in southwestern Germany that uses anthroposophic medicine (AM) on a broad basis. Inpatients who have received at least 10 treatments with one or more of the different integrative therapy methods will be asked for their willingness to participate. After providing written informed consent, participants will complete a questionnaire on integrative therapies received and overall patient satisfaction. In addition, data from the clinic database will be analyzed and cross-checked with the questionnaire data to verify and specify information about the participating sample. The focus of the study is to assess general patient satisfaction and experience with integrative therapy methods among inpatients at the Filderklinik.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Written informed consent
* Filderklinik inpatient who had at least 10 treatments with one ore more of the integrative therapy methods
* Age 18 years or older

Exclusion Criteria:

* Insufficient German language skills
* Legally incapacitated patients
* Patients who are physically incapable of giving written consent
* Patients in isolation wards

Primary outcomes:
measure: Patient satisfaction, ZUF-8 total score
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Diagnoses
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Therapies
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: OPS codings
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Inpatient admitting department
timeFrame: At the time of admission to the Filderklinik, at the beginning of hospitalization (an average of 7 days).
measure: Integrative therapies according to clinic database
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Patient experience with music therapy
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Patient experience with therapeutic painting
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Patient experience with therapeutic sculptural forming
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Patient experience with speech therapy
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Patient experience with eurythmy therapy
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Patient experience with rhythmical massage
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Patient experience with external applications
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Patient experience with coloured light therapy
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Patient experience with the timing of integrative therapies
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Patient experience with therapy plan communication
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Difference in patient satisfaction: prior experience with AM vs. no prior experience with AM
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
measure: Difference in patient satisfaction: Filderklinik chosen for treatment with AM vs. Filderklinik chosen for other reasons
timeFrame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Filderstadt
country: Germany
facility: Arcim Institute
state: Baden-Württemberg
Study officials:
affiliation: ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine
name: Jan Vagedes, Dr
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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