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Spiritual Care to Optimize Relationships and Experience in Adults With Acute Leukemia (SCORE Trial)

NCT ID: NCT07405424Sponsor: University of ChicagoLast updated: 2026-03-04

Summary

This study is being done to determine if it is possible to incorporate spiritual care sessions as part of the care plan for patients hospitalized for leukemia treatment. In this study, participants will be randomly assigned to either no intervention (standard, real world inpatient spiritual care) or to receive study-specific guided spiritual sessions.

Arms & interventions

  • BehavioralSCORE Intervention

    Participants assigned to this arm will receive regularly scheduled visits from the study spiritual care team during their hospital admission (four times within 14 days).

Outcome measures

Primary

  • Is it feasible to enroll patients to a spiritual intervention study?

    Study will compare the number of potential participants to those that enroll and complete 3 out of 4 study intervention sessions.

    Time frame: End of study (approximately 2 years)

  • Will patients accept using the study specific spiritual intervention?

    This will be measured on using the Lothian Chaplaincy Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) questionnaire. This measures patient feelings related to spiritual care using rating from not at all to all of the time.

    Time frame: End of study (approximately 2 years)

Secondary

  • Improvement on Patient Reported Spiritual Wellness

    Time frame: End of study (approximately 2 years)

  • Improvement on Patient Reported Quality of Life

    Time frame: End of study (approximately 2 years)

  • Improvement on Patient Reported Mood

    Time frame: End of study (approximately 2 years)

Eligibility criteria

Sex: AllAge: 18 Years and olderHealthy volunteers: No
Inclusion criteria * Adults (18 years or older) * Diagnosis of Acute Leukemia (AML or ALL) undergoing inpatient initial therapy * Ability to read, understand, and speak the English language * Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document Exclusion criteria * Unable to comply with spiritual care intervention * Relapsed or refractory acute leukemia * Cognitive deficits that limit participation and survey questionnaire completion

Study locations (1)

UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center

Chicago, Illinois, 60637

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Wendy Stock · Principal Investigator