The Family Talk Intervention in a children’s hospice – a pilot study

This is a pilot project to see if FTI is suitable in a children’s hospice. The project is part of the research programme FTI – The Family Talk Intervention.

When the FTI was pilot-tested in pediatric cancer care in 2018, about half of the included children/families had a severe illness with a rather poor prognosis. Consequently, we wish to test whether the FTI is suitable to use in a children’s hospice as well. Hence, the medical social worker at the only children’s hospice in Sweden have been trained in FTI and during 2022–2023, she will test the intervention with families cared for at Lilla Erstagården. The evaluation will focus on the families’ experiences of participating as well as the social worker’s experiences of using the FTI.