Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for Spiritual Care in Improving Quality of Life of Patients, Caregivers, and Hospital Staff

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Trial Identification

Brief Title: 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 ID: NCT01432431

Conditions

Malignant Neoplasm

Interventions

spiritual therapy

questionnaire administration

survey administration

counseling intervention

psychosocial support for caregiver

psychosocial assessment and care

Study Description

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.