Compassionate care intervention for hospital nursing teams caring for older people: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.

Objective: Compassionate care continues to be a focus for national and international attention, but the existing evidence base lacks the experimental methodology necessary to guide the selection of effective interventions for practice. This study aimed to evaluate the Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care (CLECC) intervention in improving compassionate care.

Setting: Ward nursing teams (clusters) in two English National Health Service hospitals randomised to intervention (n=4) or control (n=2).

A comparison of the clinical effectiveness and cost of specialised individually delivered parent training for preschool attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and a generic, group-based programme: a multi-centre, randomised controlled trial of the New Forest Parenting Programme versus Incredible Years.

The objective of this study is to compare the efficacy and cost of specialised individually delivered parent training (PT) for preschool children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) against generic group-based PT and treatment as usual (TAU). This is a multi-centre three-arm, parallel group randomised controlled trial conducted in National Health Service Trusts. The participants included in this study were preschool children (33-54 months) fulfilling ADHD research diagnostic criteria.

Exploring the work of nurses who administer chemotherapy to children and young people.

Purpose Of The Research: To explore the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of nurses who administer chemotherapy to children and young people.

Methods And Sample: A national postal survey of nurses working within the 21 cancer centres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The questionnaire included 25-items addressing the attitudes, beliefs and concerns regarding nurses' roles, support mechanisms and educational preparation related to administration of chemotherapy.

Practical approaches to seeking assent from children.

Aim: To describe and evaluate two approaches--a storyboard and a wordsearch--that the authors used with children aged four to 12 years to obtain assent.

Background: The assent process is vital in helping children to understand the elements of a research project and to make a choice of whether or not to participate. However, the methods for obtaining assent are not well documented.

What's it like when you find eating difficult: children's and parents' experiences of food intake.

Background: Despite significant advances in supportive care, children and families continue to face many challenges managing the consequences of cancer therapies. The purpose of this study was to explore the eating experiences of children, both at home and in hospital.

Objective: The objective of the study was to explore the perceptions and experiences of children and their families regarding food intake and discover how nutritional issues are managed by children and families.

Providing nutritional support for patients during cancer treatment.

Children and young people with cancer often experience a diminished oral intake and exhibit subsequent weight loss and poor nutrition as a result of the side effects of treatments. This article studies the case of a five-year-old boy who developed nutritional problems to demonstrate the need for clear and systematic guidelines and protocols for nurses and health professionals to make uniform decisions in the management of such situations.