1 40 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource April 2025 List Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Citation List Month April List 2025 URL Address <a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/02692163251313651" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> http://doi.org/10.1177/02692163251313651</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Training programs in communication skills for healthcare professionals caring for children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and their families: A systematic review of healthcare professionals' behavioral impact and children's health outcomes Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Palliative Medicine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Yamaji N; Suzuki D; Sasayama K; Nitamizu A; Yamamoto M; Ikeda M; Ota E Description An account of the resource Background: Effective communication has potential benefits for children, their families, and healthcare professionals. Although communication skills training programs are essential for healthcare professionals, their effects remain unclear. Aim: This review summarized existing communication skills training programs and evaluated their impact on healthcare professionals' behavior and the health outcomes of children with life-threatening conditions and their families. Design: This systematic review was performed in accordance with the Cochrane Handbook version 6.4. Data sources: On January 21, 2024, we searched the following databases: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, and CINAHL. The included studies' risk of bias was assessed using a revised Cochrane risk-of-bias tool for randomized controlled trials 2. Owing to insufficient data and high heterogeneity, we could not perform a meta-analysis, so the findings were described narratively. Results: We identified nine studies, which included various diseases, training programs, and outcome measurement tools and timings. Among the nine studies, five of the six studies that assessed healthcare professionals' behaviors reported that the interventions had improved them (low certainty of evidence). Only two studies reported on the quality of life and anxiety experienced by children and their families, with no clear difference between intervention and control groups. Conclusions: Communication skills training for healthcare professionals may improve their behaviors toward children with life-threatening conditions and their families. Measurement tools and timings must be standardized. Future research should develop training programs and assess their impact on children and their families, incorporating the perspective of children. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/02692163251313651" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/02692163251313651</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s). 2025 April List 2025 Ikeda M Nitamizu A Ota E Palliative Medicine Sasayama K Suzuki D Yamaji N Yamamoto M