Communicating Medical Information to Children
Our goal is to build a website designed to help parents learn about conveying medical information to children. Listed below are some questions regarding topics that will potentially be included in our website. Please indicate your interest level in the following topics. We have also included some demographic questions to better understand the context of survey responses. If you are not comfortable with responding, please feel free to skip some or all of these questions.

For the purpose of this survey, we are defining illness as a chronic health condition that negatively impacts one’s daily function or quality of life.
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Are you a parent or guardian of a child? *
If you are a parent or guardian, how old are your child(ren)? *
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Rank how knowledgeable you are about the following topics (1 being not at all and 5 being very knowledgeable) *
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How children’s age impacts their cognitive understanding of illness
How children’s age impacts their emotional reaction to illness
How children of different ages respond emotionally to their own illness diagnosis
How children of different ages respond emotionally to the illness diagnosis of a loved one
How children’s age impacts their cognitive understanding of death
How children’s age impacts their emotional reaction of death
How children of different ages respond emotionally to news of a loved one's death
Rank how comfortable you with the following (1 being not at all and 5 being very knowledgeable) *
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Talking with children about their own illness
Disclosing a child's illness diagnosis to them
Disclosing a loved one's illness diagnosis to them
Talking with children about a loved one's death
Indicate how much you agree with the following statement: It is important to include children in serious conversations about personal or familial health. *
On a scale of 1-5, 1 being not at all important and 5 being very important, how important is it for parents to engage children in conversation about difficult medical topics (e.g., chronic illness, terminal illnesses, death, etc.) *
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Rank your interest on a scale of 1-5, 1 being not at all interested and 5 being very interested. *
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Seeing resources to help parents discuss topics such as medical information, illness, and death (e.g., books, TV shows, movies, etc).
Learning about the role of medical practitioners in divulging medical information to children
If you are a parent or guardian, what is your child's experience with illness/death? *
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What would you do if faced with the need to disclose a medical diagnosis about your health to your child? *
Have you encountered any books or media that would be helpful in discussing illness with children?
Have you encountered any books or media that would be helpful in discussing death with children?
What is your age?
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