Lay people's and health professionals’ views about breaking bad news to children

Sastre, Marı́a Teresa Muñoz; Sorum, Paul Clay; Mullet, Étienne

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2214.2012.01420.x

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“…As in the work of Muñoz Sastre et al . (), a cluster analysis was performed on the raw data according to the procedure advocated by Hofmans and Mullet (); that is, we used K‐means clustering on Euclidian distances. A four‐cluster solution was identified.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Its approach was similar to that of the study by Muñoz Sastre et al . () of people's views about telling bad news to young children about their own illness. We expected to find several qualitatively different personal positions similar to those found by Muñoz Sastre et al .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We expected to find several qualitatively different personal positions similar to those found by Muñoz Sastre et al . (): (i) an ‘always tell the truth’ position; (ii) a ‘tell nothing or minimize’ position; and (iii) one or more ‘depending on circumstances’ positions, the circumstances being the boy's age, his level of concern and the seriousness of the threat. We also expected that, as in the study by Muñoz Sastre et al .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We also expected that, as in the study by Muñoz Sastre et al . (), older participants would, more than younger, think that the best policy was to tell nothing or minimize.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Telling children their mother is seriously ill or dying: mapping French people's views

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confidence: 99%

“…We also expected that, as in the study by Muñoz Sastre et al . (), older participants would, more than younger, think that the best policy was to tell nothing or minimize.…”

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“…Each participant was tested either individually or in small group of less than four persons. As recommended by Anderson (; see also Muñoz Sastre, Sorum, & Mullet, , Muñoz Sastre, Sorum, & Mullet, ) regarding this kind of study, the session had two phases. In the familiarization phase, the experimenter explained what was expected and presented each participant with 14 scenarios taken randomly from the complete set.…”

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Mapping children's and adolescents' judgment rules for assessing the risk of disease transmission from sick friends

Marco¹,

Martíl²,

Sastre

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Infant and Child Development

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Knowing the way children and adolescents assess the risk of disease transmission is important because this kind of knowledge may allow health caregivers to better communicate with them. We had 587 students in Spain and France aged 7–16 judge the risk of disease transmission in 28 scenarios of students visiting a sick friend. The scenarios were composed according to a three within‐subject orthogonal design: type of contact (from no contact to prolonged close contact), type of disease (contagious vs. noncontagious), and number of contacts. Cluster analysis revealed six main clusters, labeled “Contagion can never been ruled out,” “Depends on type of physical contact,” “Depends on type of disease,” “Depends simultaneously on contact and disease,” “Depends conjunctively on contact and disease,” and “Categorical thinking.” The composition of these clusters depended strongly on age level. From a practical perspective, even 7‐year‐olds seem to be fully aware of the issue of contagion, although they overgeneralize the risk. As a result, progress in understanding might be best achieved through a process of unlearning rather than learning. Highlights We examined the way children and adolescents judge the risk of contagion. Five hundred eighty‐seven students aged 7–16 judged the risk of disease transmission in 28 scenarios of students visiting a sick friend that were composed according to a three within‐subject design: type of contact × type of disease × number of contacts. Six judgment rules were found. They were labeled “Contagion can never been ruled out,” “Depends on type of contact,” “Depends on type of disease,” “Depends simultaneously on contact and disease,” “Depends conjunctively on contact and disease,” and “Categorical thinking.” Even 7‐year‐olds seemed to be fully aware of the issue of contagion, although they overgeneralize the risk. As a result, progress in understanding might be best achieved through a process of unlearning rather than learning.

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8 Children and Death in the Canadian Context

Gorman

2018

Contextualizing Childhoods

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Lay people's and health professionals’ views about breaking bad news to children

Abstract: Physicians in training and in practice need to be aware that lay people--and likely parents as well--have diverse and complex opinions about when and how parents should give bad health news to their children.

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Telling children their mother is seriously ill or dying: mapping French people's views

Telling children their mother is seriously ill or dying: mapping French people's views

Mapping children's and adolescents' judgment rules for assessing the risk of disease transmission from sick friends

8 Children and Death in the Canadian Context

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