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Communication of bad news in pediatrics: integrative review
Bruna Pase Zanon1, Luiza Cremonese1, Aline Cammarano Ribeiro1
1Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Objectives:
to identify the scientific evidence of the elements of communication in the process of communicating bad news in pediatrics.
Methods:
integrative review searched in the LILACS, PubMed and WoS databases. Primary studies in Portuguese, Spanish or English were included.
Results:
the evidence from the 40 studies were organized according to the elements of communication: sender (family and/or professional), receiver (family and/or child), message (bad or difficult news about diagnosis/prognosis; empathetically, honestly, objective, hopeful and available), channel (materials, quality, quantity and pace), context and effects (social and emotional changes), noise (feelings and language) and failures (silencing and misleading information).
Conclusions:
there is a need to prepare the institution and team, as well as the family and the child, in order to promote co-responsibility in this process, to minimize suffering and communication noise and to avoid failures, recognizing the child's right to know their condition.
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