Pernille Bidstrup: How should parents and health care professionals talk about the child’s cancer disease and treatment?

Quoting Pernille Bidstrup, the Head of the research group at the Danish Cancer Society Research Center, on LinkedIn:

“How should parents and health care professionals talk about the child’s cancer disease and treatment?
There are so many worries….
Should we protect the child from knowing about the scary “Cancer” word, from bad news, and from our own feelings?
What does the child understand?
What do we do if the child is sad?
And does the child even want to know all this?

Centering the communication more around the child with cancer is challanging, but is also really needed.
We have published a scoping review on child-centered communication interventions in pediatric oncology. We also propose a new child-centered communication model. Much more research and attention is needed on this!

Thanks to Beverley Lim Høeg, Paula Barrios Sevillano, Illeana Enesco, Claire Wakefield and Hanne Baekgaard Larsen for great collaboration.“

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Source: Pernille Bidstrup/LinkedIn