Education Initiative for Essential Conversations with Parents-Serious Illness Guide for Pediatrics (SICG-Peds©-Peds).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore whether training on the SICG-Peds© (Serious Illness Guide for Pediatrics) impacts a pediatric clinician's confidence and knowledge in participating and initiating/leading difficult conversations with families of children living with a serious illness.

Methods

Over 2 years, clinicians from BC and Ontario who care for children with serious illnesses attended training workshops on the SICG-Peds©. These workshops were evaluated using pre- and post-workshop questionnaires. Participants reported confidence scores on a scale of 1 to 10.

Results

In total, 134 and 140 clinicians attended the workshops in BC and Ontario, respectively. The majority of clinicians who completed the immediate post-workshop survey (N = 223, 94.5%), responded that the con

SUBMITTER: van Breemen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11635860 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature