Spiritual Assessment in Chronic Pain Patients

NCT03679871 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Spiritual Care & Chronic Pain
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 225
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 6

Brief Summary

The World Health Organization's (WHO) understanding of health(care) is incrementally incorporating the spiritual dimensions equivalent to the physical, psychological and social ones. Yet, it remains widely neglected in multi-modal, interprofessional chronic pain therapy. To support gaining access to chronic pain patients' spiritual needs and concerns within therapy, a screening tool has been constructed based on foregoing qualitative research and literature. The screening tool is to be validated with chronic pain patients in clinical settings.

Conditions

Chronic Pain; Spirituality

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Psychometric properties of "Spiritual Resources and Distress" questionnaire

  Validity, internal consistency and stability of "Spiritual Resources and Distress" questionnaire

  8 months

Study Arms (1)

Questionnaire validation

OTHER

22-items questionnaire "Spiritual Resources and Distress"

Other: Questionnaire validation

Interventions

Questionnaire validation OTHER

Participants will fill in the questionnaire "Spiritual Resources and Distress"plus additional questionnaires required for validation purposes. Three weeks later, a sub-sample will fill in the questionnaire one more time for consistency testing (test-retest)

Questionnaire validation

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Sufficient command of German language as assessed by local study coordinator
• Confirmed medical and/or nursing diagnosis of chronic pain
• Suffering pain for ≥ 6 months
• Pain intensity was≥ 5 on a 11-point numeric Rating scale (NRS; 0 = no pain, 10 = worst pain imaginable) during the last episode of pain

You may not qualify if:

• Life threatening diagnosis (e.g. cancer) that would introduce end-of-life topics as primary aspect
• Cognitive disorders that would impair participation

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Zurich: lead
• Swiss National Science Foundation: collaborator

Study Sites (6)

Klinik SGM Langenthal

Langenthal, Canton of Bern, 4900, Switzerland

Location

Schweizer Paraplegiker Zentrum, Zentrum für Schmerzmedizin

Nottwil, Canton of Lucerne, 2607, Switzerland

Location

Zürcher RehaZentrum Davos

Davos, Kanton Graubünden, 7272, Switzerland

Location

Arztpraxis Professor Sprott

Zurich, 8033, Switzerland

Location

Universitätsspital Zürich, Institut für Anästhesiologie, Schmerzambulatorium

Zurich, 8091, Switzerland

Location

Universitätsspital Zürich, Klinik für Konsiliarpsychiatrie und Psychosomatik

Zurich, Switzerland

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Perrin J, Streeck N, Naef R, Rufer M, Peng-Keller S, Rettke H. Comparing perspectives: patients' and health care professionals' views on spiritual concerns and needs in chronic pain care - a qualitative study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021 May 26;21(1):504. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-06508-y.

  PMID: 34039337 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Michael Rufer, Prof., MD

  University of Zurich

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 17, 2018
• First Posted: September 20, 2018
• Study Start: October 22, 2018
• Primary Completion: November 13, 2019
• Study Completion: November 13, 2019
• Last Updated: December 5, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-12

Locations

CH (6)