"Like filling a lottery ticket with quite high stakes": a qualitative study exploring mothers' needs and perceptions of state-provided financial support for a child with a long-term illness in Finland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A child's long-term illness or disability is always a serious matter that impacts the whole family. Costs related to an illness can substantially affect a family's financial situation. To date, there is little research on how parents experience available support for financial assistance. Surveys in Finland have found that families of children with long-term illnesses and disabilities could experience financial struggle and perceive the state provided financial support system as too complex. This article aimed to explore how caregivers of children with long-term illnesses perceived their financial situation, need for financial support and experienced its provision by the state in the Helsinki greater region.

Methods

Convenience sampling was used. Participants were

SUBMITTER: Paajanen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7830820 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature