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Implementing Spiritual Care in Inpatient Palliative Care

NCT06206551 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2026-02-12

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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.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Spiritual 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 & Collaborators

  • University Hospital Muenster

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Philipp Lenz, Prof. Dr. med. · University Hospital Muenster

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-12-01
Primary Completion
2024-05-31
Completion
2024-12-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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