Hospice Volunteer Community，Dying Patient Prepare Spirtal Care (volunteer)

Pathways to Hospice Volunteering: a Grounded Theory Study

Due to the aging population, the cases of elderly disability and death caused by chronic diseases and cancer are also increasing; thus increasing the demand and trend of community palliative care. Anning volunteers are members of the Anning team and play an integral role in the care of the "whole community". Partners who can provide psychosocial support in fear, grief, informal care, and "individualized care" can focus on patient and family needs and give their time and presence. And make up for the shortage of medical manpower. Assist nurses to take care of patients together, which is an important support for nursing care. In the community, An Ning volunteers are an important help to closely care for patients and support family members to take care of them at home and fulfill their wish of dying at home. In view of the community's peaceful home care, the trend and importance of hospice at home, it is necessary to cooperate with the "volunteers" of the tranquility team. Inquiry Only a few papers mentioned Anning volunteers' service history and research on the meaning of life, but there was a lack of in-depth and systematic discussions on Anning volunteers, including their motivation, training, process, care effectiveness, impact on training volunteer organization management, and volunteer retention. Therefore, the motivation of the research was aroused, and it was hoped to use grounded theory to explore the motivation and process of becoming an Anning volunteer, and to identify related concepts, and finally establish a theoretical framework to describe the relevant decision-making mentality. Also serves as a reference for volunteer organization management training and retention of palliative care volunteers.

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: Hospital Acquired Condition

Detailed Description

The purpose of this study is to use grounded theory to explore the motivation and process of becoming a tranquility volunteer, identify relevant concepts, and finally establish a theoretical framework to describe the relevant decision-making process.

This study adopts semi-structured in-depth interviews and semi-structured one-on-one interviews to collect data. During the interview process, according to the actual situation, the interview questions will be flexibly fine-tuned according to the data analysis results.

The data coding of grounded theory is divided into three levels: open decoding, axial decoding and selective decoding; through these three levels of coding, the data are decomposed, compared, conceptualized and integrated, and finally a theory is formed.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Estimated): 30

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Taiwan
  • Taipei county, Taiwan, 100
    • Nation Taiwan university hospictal

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Community hospice volunteers

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Adults aged 18 or above (2) Community hospice volunteers, who have served for more than one year (including one year), are currently serving volunteers or have stopped serving volunteers (3) Can speak Mandarin or Taiwanese communicate.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those who could not understand or conduct the interview due to any physical or psychological or cognitive factors were excluded.
• no Dmentia stroke

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
hospice volunteer; Pathways to hospice volunteering: a grounded theory study

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Pathways to hospice volunteering: a grounded theory study bason interview interview The 60-minute in week 24	Using qualitative research to interview volunteers' motivations, journeys and training processes as volunteers	base on week 24

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Chia-Chun Tang, PHD, professer

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 29, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 15, 2023
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 1, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 21, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): May 29, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 12, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 10, 2024
• Last Verified: April 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: hospice Volunteer
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Disease Attributes; Iatrogenic Disease
• Other Study ID Numbers: 202303083RINC

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED
• IPD Plan Description: Possibility to give back to training institution results

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No