The Family Talk Intervention when a parent has cancer- a pre-post study

This part of the research programme evaluates the FTI within cancer care when a parent has a cancer illness and has at least one child under the age of 25. The project is part of the research programme FTI – The Family Talk Intervention.

This project was initiated as it was expressed that the FTI should be introduced earlier than in specialized palliative care, where the FTI was evaluated as a pilot study in 2017. All the full time employed medical social workers at a cancer unit in a university hospital participate in the study and have been trained in FTI during 2021–2022 and use the intervention in their clinical work during 2022–2024. The effects of the FTI will be evaluated as well as the families’ experiences of participating.