Spiritual Assessment in Chronic Pain Patients

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Chronic Pain Neurologic Manifestations Pain Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Signs and Symptoms Spirituality

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Klinik SGM Langenthal, Langenthal, Canton of Bern, Switzerland

About this study

Addressing spiritual concerns and needs in chronic pain therapy is in line with the World Health Organization's (WHO) understanding of health(care) and would improve health care for this patient group. An applicable screening tool for chronic pain patients' spiritual concerns and needs must be empirically based. Based on preceding focus group interviews with patients and with health care professionals in various clinical settings and literature analysis, a screening tool has been constructed. This tool aims at supporting health care professionals as well as chronic pain patients in gaining access to spiritual concerns and needs for incorporation in multi-modal, interprofessional pain therapy. In this project the screening tools' psychometric properties will be tested with in five distinct clinical in- and out-patient settings.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

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

Treatment and study plan

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)

Primary outcomes

Psychometric properties of "Spiritual Resources and Distress" questionnaire

Time frame: 8 months

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

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Zurich

Other

Collaborators

Swiss National Science Foundation

Registry information

Official study title

Spiritual Assessment in Chronic Pain Patients: Construction and Validation of a Screening Tool in Health Care

Important dates

Study start: 2018
Primary completion: 2019
Study completion: 2019
First posted: Sep 20, 2018
Registry last updated: Dec 5, 2019

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