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ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Supporting Parent Caregivers of Children with Life-Limiting Illness.

Kendra D Koch, Barbara L Jones

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Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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49citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kendra D KochSteve Hicks School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, 1925 San Jacinto Blvd., D3500, Austin, TX 78712, USA. kdkoch@utexas.edu.
Barbara L JonesSteve Hicks School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, 1925 San Jacinto Blvd., D3500, Austin, TX 78712, USA. barbarajones@mail.utexas.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The well-being of parents is essential to the well-being of children with life-limiting illness. Parents are vulnerable to a range of negative financial, physical, and psychosocial issues due to caregiving tasks and other stressors related to the illness of their child. Pediatric palliative care practitioners provide good care to children by supporting their parents in decision-making and difficult conversations, by managing pain and other symptoms in the ill child, and by addressing parent and family needs for care coordination, respite, bereavement, and social and emotional support. No matter the design or setting of a pediatric palliative care team, practitioners can seek to provide for parent needs by referral or intervention by the care team.

Indexed as

caregiverlife-limiting illnessmedically complexpalliative careparentpediatricpsychosocialrespitespecial needsstress

Identifiers

PMID29949926
PMCPMC6069074

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