Effects of Nursing Care Provided to Relatives of Palliative Care Patients on Caregivers' Spiritual Well-being and Hope

NCT04415411 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: InterventionalPYO. SBF.1904.19.006
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 147
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to determine the effects of nursing care provided based on the Watson's Theory of Human Caring to the relatives of palliative care patients on caregivers' spiritual well-being and hope. This research was conducted with 60 patient relatives (intervention group: 30, control group: 30) taking care of their patient in palliative care unit.

Conditions

Hope; Spirituality; Palliative Care

Keywords

family members; hope; nursing care; palliative care; spirituality; relatives

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Hopeless level of patient relatives

  Data were collected via Beck Hopelessness Scale. Maximum score to obtain from the scale varies in between 0-20. Higher scores obtained indicate that there is a high level of hopelessness in an individual.

  1. week

• Spiritual well-being level of patient relatives

  Data were collected via Spiritual Well-Being Scale. Maximum score to obtain from the scale varies between 29-145. Higher score indicates stronger spiritual well-being.

  1. week

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Hopeless level of patient relatives (Change in level of hopeless after 4 weeks)

  4 weeks

• Spiritual well-being level of patient relatives (Change in level of spiritual well-being after 4 weeks)

  4 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

Routine nursing care

Intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

Nursing care based on the Theory of Human Caring

Other: Nursing care based on the Theory of Human Caring

Interventions

Nursing care based on the Theory of Human Caring OTHER

Planned nursing care based on 10 caritas processes of Theory of Human Caring.

Intervention group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• aged 18 and above
• willingness and motivation to participate in research
• literacy
• being the primary caregiver
• lack of mental or verbal deficiency to respond the questions

You may not qualify if:

• aged 18 below
• unwilling to participate in research
• illiterate
• non-primary caregiver
• mental or communicative disabilities

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ondokuz Mayıs University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Ondokuz Mayıs University

Samsun, 55312, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Related Publications (4)

• De Korte-Verhoef MC, Pasman HR, Schweitzer BP, Francke AL, Onwuteaka-Philipsen BD, Deliens L. Burden for family carers at the end of life; a mixed-method study of the perspectives of family carers and GPs. BMC Palliat Care. 2014 Mar 31;13(1):16. doi: 10.1186/1472-684X-13-16.

  PMID: 24678941 BACKGROUND

• Gotze H, Brahler E, Gansera L, Polze N, Kohler N. Psychological distress and quality of life of palliative cancer patients and their caring relatives during home care. Support Care Cancer. 2014 Oct;22(10):2775-82. doi: 10.1007/s00520-014-2257-5. Epub 2014 May 9.

  PMID: 24811216 BACKGROUND

• Ullrich A, Ascherfeld L, Marx G, Bokemeyer C, Bergelt C, Oechsle K. Quality of life, psychological burden, needs, and satisfaction during specialized inpatient palliative care in family caregivers of advanced cancer patients. BMC Palliat Care. 2017 May 10;16(1):31. doi: 10.1186/s12904-017-0206-z.

  PMID: 28486962 BACKGROUND

• Oechsle K, Ullrich A, Marx G, Benze G, Heine J, Dickel LM, Zhang Y, Wowretzko F, Wendt KN, Nauck F, Bokemeyer C, Bergelt C. Psychological burden in family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer at initiation of specialist inpatient palliative care. BMC Palliat Care. 2019 Nov 18;18(1):102. doi: 10.1186/s12904-019-0469-7.

  PMID: 31739802 BACKGROUND

Related Links

• WHO (2019). Palliative care
• Canadian Cancer Research Alliance (2017). Pan-canadian framework for palliative and end-of life care research
• Watson, J. (2010). Core concepts of Jean Watson's Theory of human caring/caring science.

Study Officials

• Aslı Kurtgöz, PhD

  Amasya University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Zeliha Koc, PhD

  Ondokuz Mayıs University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Masking Details: Due to the nature of the research, it was not possible to blind the participants to group assignment. Additionally, due to the study being conducted for a doctoral thesis, data collection (pre and posttest), interviews, interventions and evaluation of data carried out by the same researcher who was not blinded.
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: PhD

Model Details: In this study, there are two groups as intervention group and control group. Investigator, administered not any application to control group. Nursing care which based on the Theory of Human Caring was given to intervention group for 4 weeks.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 27, 2020
• First Posted: June 4, 2020
• Study Start: October 5, 2018
• Primary Completion: March 18, 2019
• Study Completion: March 18, 2019
• Last Updated: June 9, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)