Nearly a quarter-million children are siblings to children living with serious illness. A variety of physical, emotional, social and psychological concerns are presented when a brother or sister is diagnosed with a serious illness or disease. Support services for siblings are critical to promote positive outcomes and decrease negative consequences and align with parents’ desires to support all of their children. These include services offered to the sibling or family to provide comfort or enhance the quality of life during a child’s serious illness. Despite national standards, sibling support services are often difficult for families to access.
The aim of this survey is to determine the availability of support services for siblings and the path to which a family can access these support services.
Thank you for taking the time to answer the following questions and by doing so help improve sibling support within families dealing with catastrophic physical and/or emotional illness/injury.
All personal information will be kept confidential unless approved before use.
