Table 1 Eligibility criteria and PICO
Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria | PICO |
|---|---|---|
Children from 0 to 17 years | Children from the age of 18 years | P: Children who are next-of-kin of parents in the event of illness: has a congenital or acquired illness or disability (physical or mental) including substance and gambling abuse |
• Support to children of a parent who has a congenital or acquired illness or disability (physical or mental) including substance and gambling abuse | • Non-identifiable illness • Parents in forensic care • Parents in prison | |
• Community based support, online support/interventions or equal, facilitated by health professionals or social care staff • Support offered to the individual child or as a family intervention or support offered to a parent with the aim of developing specific parental skills beneficial for an infant’s development. The studies should be included if they have a clearly described/determined child-foucused outcome. • Well-defined support | • Support given or organized by schools and non-health and social work staff • In-care support services • Hospital-based support • Foster-care, custody-related interventions • Family interventions if no specific child-focused outcome • Parent-focused interventions without child-focused outcome • Undefined or non-specific support • Support related to bereavement | I: Interventions regarding support for children O: Children´s preferences/needs and outcome of interventions regarding support for children from community health service |
• Articles published from 2009 to 2019 English and Scandinavian languages | • Articles published outside the period 2009–2019 • Articles in other languages | C: Study design |
• Empirical studies, theoretical papers (models) and reviews, if having a very similar focus on children • Quantitative studies: with outcome on child level • Qualitative studies: narratives from children describing what would have been valuable support (in a present or previous situation) and what was regarded as valuable support from the community health services; observations from professionals and parents with explicit focus on child outcomes • Mixed methods studies: see above (qualitative and quantitative study focus) | • Editorials, • Conference abstracts, • Dissertation abstracts, • Study protocols • Review articles, with other aim than ours • Outcomes which are not child focused | |
• Articles using IMRAD structure | Studies where the IMRAD structure is missing, Non-articles, for example published dissertations |