The family talk intervention in palliative care: a study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In palliative care contexts, support programs for families with a severely ill parent and minor children are few, and even fewer have been evaluated scientifically. The aims of this study are to examine feasibility and potential effects of a modified version of the Family Talk Intervention (FTI) in palliative care.

Methods

This ongoing family-centered intervention has a quasi-experimental design comparing one intervention and one comparison group. The intervention includes severely ill parents who have minor children (aged 6-19 yrs) and are receiving advanced homecare in Stockholm, Sweden between March 2017 and March 2018. The main goal of the FTI is to support family communication through psycho-education and narrative theory. The modified FTI consists of six mee

SUBMITTER: Eklund R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5824474 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature