Pediatric Advance Care Planning and Families' Positive Caregiving Appraisals: An RCT.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Little is known about how families respond to pediatric advance care planning. Physicians are concerned that initiating pediatric advance care planning conversations with families is too distressing for families. We examined the effect of family centered pediatric advance care planning intervention for teens with cancer (FACE-TC) advance care planning on families' appraisals of their caregiving, distress, and strain.

Methods

In a randomized clinical trial with adolescents with cancer and their families conducted from July 2016 to April 2019 in 4 tertiary pediatric hospitals, adolescents and family dyads were randomly assigned at a 2:1 intervention/control ratio to either the 3 weekly sessions of FACE-TC (Advance Care Planning Survey; Next Steps: Res

SUBMITTER: Thompkins JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8442842 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature