A Chaplain-clinician Led Spiritual Care (PEACE) Intervention on Spiritual/Religious Beliefs Related to Medical Care in Patients With Advanced Cancer: a Pilot Clinical Trial

ConditionsSpiritual Care Advanced Cancer

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age18+

SponsorM.D. Anderson Cancer Center

About this trial

To examine the feasibility and acceptability of chaplain-clinician led spiritual care (PEACE: Perception, Exploring, Addressing, Compassionate Connection, Embracing) intervention in patients with advanced cancer.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Participants with advanced cancer (locally advanced, metastatic, recurrent, or incurable) seen by the participant supportive/palliative care mobile team at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Respond "somewhat to A great deal" to the question in the RBEC questionnaire "I will accept every possible medical treatment because my faith tells me to do everything I can to stay alive longer".

Participant s aged 18 years or over.

Karnofsky performance status ≥30% at time of inclusion into study.

Disqualifiers

None

Trial design

Design model

Single group

Treatments tested in this trial

Peace Intervention
Other intervention
Patients will participate in two PEACE intervention sessions, which will last 30-60 minutes each.
Usual Care
Other intervention
Usual care is a comprehensive evaluation of the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient by the Supportive/Palliative Care medical team.

Treatment groups

60 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Group A: Phase 1Experimental treatment 1 intervention

Group B: Phase 2Experimental treatment 2 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

RBEC Questionnaire

Time frame

Through study completion; an average of 1 year

Sponsors and contacts

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M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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