Cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Heart Failure, Lateral Sclerosis
Conditions
Brief summary
The goal of this observational study is to is to ascertain the spiritual needs of palliative patients in a standardized manner using the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire and to promptly address those needs by (specialized) spiritual care. To determine whether the effort of implementing the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire on a sustainable basis on the one hand brings the expected benefit to the patients and on the other hand can be provided by the pastoral care personnel, at Muenster University Hospital (specialized) spiritual care interventions will be documented in detail and retrospectively and prospectively collected data will be compared.
Interventions
OTHERSpiritual Needs Questionnaire
This questionnaire captures the spiritual needs of patients and is used in its short version (screener).This questionnaire is used as part of standard treatment for all palliative care inpatients.
Sponsors
University Hospital Muenster
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
OTHER
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* All individual indication for general and specialised Palliative Care in clinical setting/routine (e.g.): * Progressive, malign tumours * Progressive, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease * Patients with progressive disease and limited life expectancy (\< ca. 12 months) * Patients attended by Palliative Caregivers in counselling services or on palliative ward * Life expectancy \> 2 weeks * Sufficient comprehension of German language and writing that allows an autonomous or supported completion of the questionnaire. * Existence of an independently signed written consent.
Exclusion criteria
* Severe cognitive impairment * capacity for consent lacking or impaired * impaired comprehension of German language and writing that would not allow an autonomous or supported completion of the questionnaire.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feasibility of standardized and evidence-based recordation and implementation of Spiritual Care in Palliative Care | 6 months | Feasibility of standardized and evidence-based recordation and implementation of Spiritual Care in Palliative Care based on the number of interventions provided by general and/or specialized Spiritual Care for patients with ascertained needs detected by the validated Spiritual Needs Questionnaire in German language. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Recordation of needs for general / specialized spiritual care in palliative care | 6 months | Recordation of needs for general / specialized spiritual care in palliative care consultation service and palliative ward of a university tertiary care hospital. |
| Differences in use and outcomes comparing standardised and non-standardised evaluation of spiritual care needs (comparison with retrospective data). | 6 months | s. title |
| Examination of further descriptive and analysing comparisons of retrospective data and intervention group. | 6 months | s. title |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORPhilipp Lenz, Prof. Dr. med.
University Hospital Muenster
Outcome results
None listed