Implementing the Family Talk Intervention in clinical practice – barriers and facilitators

We will evaluate implementation strategies, and also barriers and facilitators to implement the FTI. The project is part of the research programme FTI – The Family Talk Intervention.

A major part of this research program includes implementation studies of the FTI in clinical practice in the 4 contexts in question (Specialized palliative home care, Cancer care, Children’s hospital and Children’s hospice). We will evaluate implementation strategies, and also barriers and facilitators to implement the FTI. The focus lies both on the intervention (how suited is the FTI for the purpose), but also on factors influencing the use of the FTI, e.g. the significance of the working environment. Within the frame of this part of the research program, all medical social workers trained in FTI (about 50) are included and we follow their experiences of using the FTI over time. Medical social workers in the control services are also included. Further, the social workers’ compliance to the FTI manual is evaluated, the social workers’ recruitment of families, the managers’ influence on the process etc.