MeSH: Single-Blind Method
Shared spiritual beliefs between adolescents with cancer and their families
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BACKGROUND: FAmily CEntered (FACE) Advance Care Planning helps family decision makers to understand and honor patients’ preferences for future health care, if patients cannot communicate. Spiritual well-being is a key domain of pediatric oncology care and an integral dimension of pediatric advance care planning. PROCEDURE: As part of four-site randomized controlled trial of FACE for…
Pediatric Advance Care Planning and Families’ Positive Caregiving Appraisals: An RCT
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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…