Nurses' knowledge of paediatric palliative care in a children's hospital.

Background: Effective training of health professionals is essential to end-of-life care.

Aims: To explore the level of knowledge on paediatric palliative care (PPC) of nurses in a children's monographic hospital.

Methods: Cross-sectional observational analytical study.

Pediatric Palliative Care at Home: A Prospective Study on Subcutaneous Drug Administration.

Context: The subcutaneous route is a useful alternative for drug administration in palliative care. Although there is scientific evidence on its use in adult patients, the literature in pediatric palliative care is almost nonexistent.

Objectives: To describe the experience of a pediatric palliative care unit (PPCU) with in-home subcutaneous drug administration symptom control.

A New Instrument to Assess Children's Understanding of Death: Psychometrical Properties of the EsCoMu Scale in a Sample of Spanish Children.

The acquisition of the death concept in children may influence how these children cope with the losses that they will confront throughout their lives. At the present time, there is a lack of psychometric instruments in Spanish-speaking countries in order to evaluate the components of the death concept in children. The aim of this study was to create and validate a scale (EsCoMu-Escala sobre el Concepto de Muerte) in order to provide insight about the concept of death in children.

The concept of death in children aged from 9 to 11 years: Evidence through inductive and deductive analysis of drawings.

The objective of the research was to analyze children's conceptualization of death through drawings, using a mixed approach, which combines deductive and inductive qualitative analysis. The sample consisted of 99 children aged 9-11 years, who were asked to elaborate a drawing about their idea of death and to explain it to the researchers. Drawings were coded basing on Tamm and Granqvist's model (deductive analysis) and codes and categories were created and modified (inductive analysis).