NCT06206551Completed
Implementing Spiritual Care in Inpatient Palliative Care
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 12 Feb 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
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.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 100 (actual)
- First submitted
- 4 Jan 2024
- Start date
- 1 Dec 2023
- Primary completion date
- 31 May 2024
- Lead sponsor
- University Hospital Muenster
- Diseases
- Heart failure, COPD
- NCT number
- NCT06206551
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Participants enrolled: 100
- From 1 Dec 2023 to the primary completion date, 31 May 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Severe cognitive impairment
Other
- 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.
Who the study is looking for
- 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.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University hospital Muenster Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Münster | Germany | Unknown status |
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