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Table 4 aPercentages of legislation components endorsed by children, patients and health personnel (n =112)

From: Norwegian health personnel’s compliance with new legislation on children of ill parents: an exploratory cross-sectional multicentre study

 

Child respondents

Patients

Health personnel

Information to and conversation with the child, percentage endorsing ‘yes’

%

%

%

Did the patient tell the child about his/her illness him/her- self?

90

94

71

Did the child visit the unit where the patient was treated?

62

51

42

Did the health personnel have a conversation with the child alone?

22

19

14

Did the health personnel have a conversation with the child and patient?

23

28

30

Did the child receive sufficient information about the parents’ illness?

75

47

30

Is it openness in the family about the parent’s illness

65

78

42

  1. aThe sample in this analysis are children, patients and health personnel for whom all three respondents are reporting