Assessing spiritual care in chronic illness-pilot study

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  A quantitative study of how different chronic illness patient groups access spiritual care with follow up interviews which will generate patient informed spiritual care. This pilot will determine how big the sample size should be.

• IRAS ID

  248222

• Contact name

  L E J Leaver

• Contact email

  liz.leaver@mft.nhs.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 3 months, 3 days

• Research summary

  To assess whether all groups of patients suffering from chronic illness have equal access to spiritual care, a questionnaire will be given to patients who suffer from COPD and breast cancer. This is a pilot study to work out take up rate and will be carried out on 10 patients in each group. The questionnaire provides space for patients to volunteer for a follow-up interview. This interview will give them the opportunity to tell their story of good spiritual care and/or to put forward suggestions for achieving better access to spiritual care.

• REC name

  North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 1

• REC reference

  19/NS/0004

• Date of REC Opinion

  4 Feb 2019

• REC opinion

  Unfavourable Opinion