NCT07176559Active, not recruiting
Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial of Informational Support Versus Spiritual Care
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 28 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this study is to address the need for effective spiritual care support for patients with lung and gastrointestinal cancer. This study will examine how spiritual care affects spiritual wellbeing, anxiety, depression, satisfaction with spiritual care, and quality of communication.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 43 (actual)
- First submitted
- 29 Aug 2025
- Start date
- Sept 2025
- Primary completion date
- Sept 2028
- Lead sponsor
- Indiana University
- Diseases
- Lung cancer
- NCT number
- NCT07176559
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 43
- From Sept 2025 to the primary completion date, Sept 2028
- 4 sites 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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Prior treatment
- Currently receiving hospice care Note: subjects who enroll in hospice during the trial will have the option of continuing trial participation
Other illness
- Subject makes 3 or more errors on the Callahan 6-item cognitive screener administered during screening, or exhibits significant psychiatric or cognitive impairment (e.g., dementia/delirium, intellectual disability, active psychosis) that in the judgment of the research team would preclude providing informed consent and study participation
Other
- Have had a visit with a healthcare chaplain within the past 3 months
Who the study is looking for
- ≥ 18 years old at the time of informed consent
- Ability to provide informed consent and HIPAA authorization
- Subject is at least 2 weeks post-diagnosis of an incurable and advanced stage (IV) lung or gastrointestinal (GI) malignancy and receiving cancer care at IU Simon Cancer Center, other IU Health Oncology Clinics, or Eskenazi Health Oncology Clinics
- Subject has a reliable phone and is willing to participate in 4 sessions with the chaplain
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) score ranging from 0 (fully active) to 3 (able to conduct limited self-care in bed or chair more than 50% of waking hours)
- Has low Spiritual Well-Being score of 35 or less on the FACIT-Sp
- Subject makes 2 or fewer errors on the Callahan 6-item cognitive screener administered during screening
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (4)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| IU Health Joe and Shelly Schwarz Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Carmel | United States | Unknown status |
| Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Indianapolis | United States | Unknown status |
| Indiana University Melvin & Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Indianapolis | United States | Unknown status |
| IU Health Arnett Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lafayette | United States | Unknown status |
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