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The family talk intervention prevent the feeling of loneliness - a long term follow up after a parents life-threatening illness
Originally published 2024-12-12 · BMC Palliative Care
BMC · DOI 10.1186/s12904-024-01611-3 ↗
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What kinds of family conversations may remain useful when a parent is seriously ill?
This follow-up explores how families use shared communication tools when a parent has a life-threatening illness. It highlights children’s needs, family conversation, and the value of continuing support.
Who was studied?
Nine parents interviewed four to five years after a Family Talk Intervention in Swedish palliative home care.
Age / stage: Dependent children in families affected by parental illness; mixed ages
Read with three questions
- Which Family Talk tools did parents report still using?
- What did parents say about loneliness, children’s openness, and ongoing support needs?
- Why do nine retrospective interviews not establish intervention effectiveness?
Keep the limits in view
This was a small, purposively sampled qualitative follow-up of parents’ perceptions, without a control group or direct child interviews. It cannot establish causal or general treatment effects.
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Emily Bergersen; Cecilia Olsson; Maria Larsson; Ulrika Kreicbergs; Malin Lövgren (2024). The family talk intervention prevent the feeling of loneliness - a long term follow up after a parents life-threatening illness BMC Palliative Care. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-024-01611-3
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