Spiritual Care to Optimize Relationships and Experience in Adults With Acute Leukemia (SCORE Trial)
University of Chicago
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.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy 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
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).
Location
- UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer CenterChicago, Illinois