Locus of Control and Spirituality in Palliative Care Patients

Completed

Conditions studied: Advanced Cancer

In brief

Primary Objectives: 1. To determine whether the degree of spirituality/religiosity as determined by the Duke University Religion Index and Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well Being Scale (FACIT-Sp) correlates with internal locus of control as determined by the Locus of Control Scale. 2. To determine the relationships among spiritual-well being, religiosity, hope, depression, and culture, socioeconomic status, and gender in a palliative care setting. 3. To determine if hope and depression in palliative care patients are affected by the degree of intrinsic and extrinsic spirituality/religiosity. 4. To determine if patients who believe in predestination correlate with decreased locus of control, but improved quality of life and degree of religiosity.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT00477243
Run by: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
People needed: 100
Starts: 2004-06-03
Expected to finish: 2017-08-11
Last updated by the study team: 2017-08-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Age > 17 years (surveys have not been validated in minors)
Expected survival > 6 weeks
Patients experiencing acute side effects from chemotherapy (mucositis, emesis, or severe grade 2-3 neuropathy) are not eligible
No clinical evidence of cognitive failure, with normal Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE). A score of 24 is considered normal
Only new patients presenting to the Department of Symptom Control and Palliative Care Center

You may not qualify if…

Where it is running

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States

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