Clinical trial NCT01432431: Spiritual Care in Improving Quality of Life of Patients, Caregivers, and Hospital Staff
Official title: Archstone Spiritual Care Demonstration Project: Outcomes for Patients, Families, and Staff
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Malignant Neoplasm
Lead sponsor: City of Hope Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2011-09-13
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: This clinical trial studies spiritual care in improving quality of life of patients, caregivers, and hospital staff. Spiritual care may help understand the impact cancer and its treatment has on patients, caregivers and hospital staff.

Detailed description: OBJECTIVES:

I. To improve the quality of spiritual care provided by palliative care teams. II. To measure the effectiveness of integrating spiritual care recommendations in palliative care at City of Hope (COH) and the impact it has on cancer patients, families, and hospital staff.

OUTLINE:

The expanded psychosocial/spiritual assessment administered by social workers includes a spiritual history and a spiritual needs screening. Social worker knowledge and competence is surveyed at baseline, immediately after the course, and after a bedside chaplain-mentoring process. Inpatient cancer patients' and their caregivers' perceptions about spiritual care is surveyed at baseline prior to the social work curriculum and after the course has been completed and the new psychosocial/spiritual assessment has been implemented. Data collected from patients, family members, and staff includes number of unduplicated palliative care patients screened for spiritual concerns, spiritual history, number and type of spiritual issues, number of referrals to the chaplain, number seen by the chaplain, number of unduplicated palliative care patients with documented spiritual care plan, number of staff development sessions offered and topics, attendance per topic, advance directives, and referrals to hospice.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Admitted during the study quarter
* Admitted \>= 5 days
* English speaking
* Alert and able to answer questions

Exclusion Criteria:

* Non-cancer diagnosis
* Previously accrued to study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change over time in number of unduplicated palliative care patients screened for spiritual concerns and spiritual history
timeFrame: At baseline and quarterly for one year
measure: Change over time in number and type of spiritual issues
timeFrame: At baseline and quarterly for one year
measure: Change over time in number of referrals to the chaplain and number seen by the chaplain
timeFrame: At baseline and quarterly for one year
measure: Change over time in number of unduplicated palliative care patients with documented spiritual care plan
timeFrame: At baseline and quarterly for one year
measure: Change over time in number of staff development sessions offered and topics, attendance per topic, advance directives, and referrals to hospice
timeFrame: At baseline and quarterly for one year
measure: Identification of common themes and patterns that answer the key evaluation questions
timeFrame: At baseline and quarterly for one year
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Duarte
country: United States
facility: City of Hope Medical Center
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: City of Hope Medical Center
name: Jay Thomas
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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