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Experiences with a national team-based learning program for advance care planning in pediatric palliative care

Background: Advance Care Planning (ACP) enables patients and relatives to define and share values, goals and preferences for future medical treatment and care. The IMplementing Pediatric Advance Care Planning Toolkit (IMPACT), developed in the…

What Are the Psychosocial Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer? A Systematic Review of the Literature

Adolescents and young adults with cancer (AYACs) have become recognized as a unique group in recent years. The unique developmental context and related challenges of being a young person with a cancer diagnosis can lead to a distinct and diverse set…

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Mixed-methods evaluation of a face-to-face educational intervention for health and social care professionals to deliver family-centred cancer supportive care when a parent with dependent children is at end of life

Objective: To deliver and evaluate an educational intervention to equip health and social care professionals (professionals) on how best to support parents at end of life with cancer concerning their dependent children (

Exploring the experiences of children's palliative care for forced migrant families in the United Kingdom: an interpretative phenomenological study

Introduction: This study focused on understanding the experiences of forced migrant families and the health care professionals who care for them within palliative care. Palliative care for children requires an active, holistic approach to care, with…

CHILDREN WITH LIFE-LIMITING CONDITIONS USING NONINVASIVE VENTILATION: PARENT PERSPECTIVES

SESSION TITLE: Pediatric Potpourri SESSION TYPE: Original Investigations PRESENTED ON: 10/06/2024 01:30 pm - 02:30 pm PURPOSE: Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is increasingly used in children with life-limiting conditions (LLCs) to treat their…

Parent Narratives Provide Perspectives on the Experience of Care in Trisomy 18

Trisomy 18 syndrome, also known as Edwards syndrome, is the second most common autosomal chromosome syndrome after Down syndrome. Trisomy 18 is a serious medical disorder due to the increased occurrence of structural defects, the high neonatal and…

Listen to our voice!' using co-creation and art-based methods to explore the welfare and wellbeing of siblings of children with life-limiting conditions

Sibling of children with a life-limiting condition (LLC) face challenge. Yet there is relatively little research specifically investigating the psychosocial impact on siblings living with a child with an LLC. A qualitative participatory methodology…

Stress Among Parents of Children With Severe Neurological Impairment in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Background: Children with severe neurological impairment (SNI) often receive care in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), yet little is known about their parents' experiences. Objective(s): To examine sources of and changes in stress among…

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Exploring Pediatric Code Status, Advance Care Planning, and Mode of Death Disparities at End of Life

Context: Children from marginalized groups are at risk for worse medical outcomes, yet little is known about their end of life experiences. Objective: We examine the characteristics of deceased children with a focus on race, ethnicity, and preferred…

The impact, perceptions and needs of parents of children with epidermolysis bullosa

Background: Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a rare, incurable genodermatosis that presents with blistering and skin fragility. Complications can be localised or generalised, limited to the skin or have systemic effects resulting in death. Caring for a…

"Somebody Hug the Interpreter": Enhancing Pediatric Palliative Care Partnership with Medical Interpreters

Outcomes: 1. Utilizing a case-based approach, participants will be able to describe the unique roles embodied by in-person medical interpreters in the context of pediatric serious illness and summarize the personal, patient/encounter-level, and…

Improving Pediatric Residency End-Of-Life Education: A Quality Improvement Approach

Outcomes: 1. Participants will be able to understand that a quality improvement model is an effective method for developing graduate medical education curricula for end-of-life care. 2. Participants will be able to recognize the lack of pediatric…

Deepening Clinician Understanding of Family Caregivers' Lived Experiences Caring for Medically Complex Children

Outcomes: 1. Participants will self-report the ability to summarize elements of CMC family caregivers' four "unseen" experiences and justify the need for innovative methods to capture them. 2. Participants will self-report the ability to describe the…

Bereavement Needs Assessment of a Growing Pediatric Palliative Care Program

Outcomes: 1. Participants will be able to identify the impact current bereavement resources have on patients and families treated at our free-standing children's hospital. 2. Participants will be able to identify periods during bereavement where…

The Alluring, Enduring, and Troubling Concept of a "Good Death" in Pediatric Palliative Care

Outcomes: 1. Using a critical historical approach, participants will evaluate why, how, and for/with who the "good death" concept emerged and how it has persisted over time. 2. The interprofessional authorship team will illustrate and deconstruct the…

Exploring spirituality, religion and life philosophy among parents of children receiving palliative care: a qualitative study

Background: Few studies have examined the spiritual environment of parents of children receiving palliative care in Southern European countries, which are mostly characterized by secularization (or the abandonment of traditional religiosity) and an…

Serious news communication between clinicians and parents impacts parents' experiences, decision-making, and clinical care for critically ill neonates

Physicians often disclose serious news with patients and families; however, many clinicians experience anxiety around these conversations.1 Fear of their patients' and their own emotional reactions may cause providers to avoid these conversations…

How Do Children With Medical Complexity Die? A Scoping Review

Introduction: Advancement in medical expertise and technology has led to a growing cohort of children with medical complexity (CMC), who make up a rising proportion of childhood deaths. However, end of life in CMC is poorly understood and little is…

The most painful estrangement: Death at birth

More than two million babies a year die during or before birth around the world, evoking grief that is traumatic. Because the psychological, physical, social, and emotional ramifications of grief following a baby's death are so enduring and intense,…

Balancing pandemic public health restrictions and family support at the end of life: palliative care and bereavement experiences of parents whose child died during the COVID-19 pandemic

Background: Little is known about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on families of children with chronic life-limiting conditions who died during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: In this qualitative study, parents of a child (< 18 years) who died…

A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic non-cancer pain and their families experience and understand their condition, pain services, and treatments

Background: Chronic non-cancer pain in childhood is widespread, affecting 20% to 35% of children and young people worldwide. For a sizeable number of children, chronic non-cancer pain has considerable negative impacts on their lives and quality of…

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Nurses' effort for providing end-of-life care in paediatric oncology: a phenomenological study

BACKGROUND: Many children with cancer are hospitalised before the end of life and need special care. To improve the delivery of care for children, it is necessary to understand the insights, emotions and feelings of nurses. AIM: This study aimed to…

Redirecting Care: Compassionate Management of the Sick or Preterm Neonate at the End of Life

The primary moral commitment of medical care has traditionally been based on a belief in the intrinsic value and significance of human life and a desire to protect the most vulnerable from harm. In this respect, the care of newborn infants who are at…

A pilot study on sports activities in pediatric palliative care: just do it

Evaluating a novel hospital-based online health community to address palliative and psychosocial care factors for chronically ill adolescent and young adult patients

OBJECTIVES: Chronically ill adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients experience barriers to accessing psychosocial care. AYAs who receive palliative and psychosocial care experience numerous benefits from these services. However, we still lack…

Parent-Reported Experience Measures of Care for Children with Serious Illnesses: A Scoping Review

OBJECTIVE: This scoping review aimed to: 1) identify parent-reported experience measures (PaREMs) for parents of children with serious illnesses from peer-reviewed literature, 2) map the types of care experience being evaluated in PaREMs, 3) identify…

The experiences of bereaved family caregivers with advance care planning for children with medical complexity

BACKGROUND: Medical technologies and technological advances have resulted in a growing number of children with medical complexity (CMC), many of whom would not have survived previously. Despite these advances CMC are still at high risk of morbidity…

Physicians' attitudes when faced with life-threatening events in children with severe neurological disabilities

Purpose: Children with severe neurological disabilities are at an increased risk of acute, life-threatening events. We assessed physicians' attitudes when making decisions in these situations.

Parents with a child throughout the end-of-course: A qualitative study

Background/Objectives: The purpose of the current study was to describe the lived experience of parents with a child with incurable cancer at the end of life (EOL). Design/Methods: A qualitative study was conducted following a phenomenological…

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Illness and end-of-life experiences of children with cancer who receive palliative care

Background: The field of pediatric palliative oncology is newly emerging. Little is known about the characteristics and illness experiences of children with cancer who receive palliative care (PC). Methods: A retrospective cohort study of 321…

Exploring Resident Physicians' Experiences Practicing in Pediatric Palliative Care: A Hermeneutic Method of Inquiry

Objectives: The experiences of medical residents during training in pediatric palliative care has recently become an area of focus within medical education literature. Residents' medical knowledge, skill development, and comfort in clinical practice…

A possibility for strengthening family life and health: Family members' lived experience when a sick child recieves home care in sweden

Background/Objectives: Families often prefer home care to hospital care, and home-care services for ill children are increasing worldwide with limited knowledge of families' needs during curative and palliative home care. The aim of this study was to…

Opinions of Israeli neonatologists about life and death decisions in neonates

Background:: In 2005, the Israeli parliament passed the "law of dying patients" legalizing life and death decisions (do not resuscitate) in patients with life expectancy less than 6 months. Objective:: To determine whether ethnic and religious…

The experiences, attitudes and practices of nurses working in a paediatric intensive care unit caring for babies and children at the end of life: A qualitative study

Introduction Of the 74% of UK childhood deaths that occur in hospital, an increasing number-up to 65%-occur in PICU. There is little information about the impact of this on those who provide minute-to minute care of the children and their families,…

Parents' needs for physician-parent communication in the face of life-threatening illness: Qualitative analysis

Introduction. Parents of a child diagnosed with a life-threatening illness often experience the state of cognitive and emotional disorganization. The key factor determining parents-physicians cooperation is the quality of their relations. That is why…

Bringing social context into the conversation about pediatric long-term ventilation

Decisions to initiate long-term ventilation (LTV) for children with medical complexities often involve unclear risk/benefit ratios. Although the technology may prolong a child's life, the added months to years could largely be spent in the hospital,…

Parental perceptions of forgoing artificial nutrition and hydration during end-of-life care

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Forgoing artificial nutrition and hydration (FANH) in children at the end of life (EOL) is a medically, legally, and ethically acceptable practice under speci fi c circumstances. However, most of the evidence on FANH…

Approaching the third decade of paediatric palliative oncology investigation: historical progress and future directions

Paediatric palliative care (PPC) endeavours to alleviate the suffering and improve the quality of life of children with serious illnesses and their families. In the past two decades since WHO defined PPC and called for its inclusion in paediatric…

Aims And Tasks In Parental Caregiving For Children Receiving Palliative Care At Home: A Qualitative Study

In paediatric palliative care (PPC), parents are confronted with increasing caregiving demands. More children are cared for at home, and the need for PPC of children is lengthened due to technical and medical improvements. Therefore, a clear…

End Of Life Care In Paediatric Neurodegenerative Disease: A Regional Experience

Objectives: To identify barriers to delivering patient and family centred end of life care to children with neurodegenerative disease, of which seizures and myoclonic epilepsy is a significant symptom. To highlight good practice in delivery of end of…

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