Background Annually, across the world a substantial number of dependent children
experience the death of a parent through life-limiting illness. Without support, this has long …

Objective: To determine parents' experiences and perceptions of a support service for
families with bereaved children, provided by a UK charity for cancer patients in seven …

Background Bereaved people need a supportive response from those around them.
Knowing children's and surviving parents9 needs following parental death is the first step to …

Background Hospices are an important component of children's palliative care provision and
increasing numbers of children/young people with life‐limiting conditions mean that the …

Child and family involvement is key to improving the quality of children's hospice services.
This article reports on a quality assurance initiative undertaken as one component of a …

Although the relief of suffering and emotional support are fundamental to children's palliative
care, their empirical study has been limited. The research questions for this study address …

Aim: To present findings from a review of key literature and from a scoping of current
provision of support for children facing the death of a parent. A summary of the findings from …

Background: The need for pre-bereavement support for children facing the death of a parent
is well recognised but how this is done by hospice ward nurses in practice is not well known …

The main objective of this study is to generate a list of priority topics for children's hospice
care research in Scotland from the perspective of its key stakeholders. The method consists …

Background: Experiential studies in paediatric palliative care are needed to enable an
ongoing international agenda which supports the development of responsive family …