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"We feel alone and not listened to": Somali, Hmong and Latin American Parents Perspectives on Pediatric Serious Illness [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Results: Parents desired two-way trusting and respectful relationships with medical staff. Effective communication is one key to improving understanding, expressing compassion, and partnering with parents, including quality medical interpretation for low-English proficient parents. Intervention: NA. Outcome Measures: NA.

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

Religion is important to me and my relationship with God has got stronger since I’ve been working here. They can go in and out the rooms and interact with the inmates because the inmates a lot of them have a mistrust of medical staff and authority that’s been long ingrained in concrete for so long.

IT 97