Spiritual Care to Optimize Relationships and Experience in Adults With Acute Leukemia (SCORE Trial)
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
Study locations (1)
UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chicago, Illinois, 60637