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For parents of children in palliative care, the decline in their child's ability to feed triggers a profound sense of lost parental duty and a phasal, embodied experience of grief that manifests both physically and psychosomatically. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To explore parents’ experiences of feeding their child with a life-limiting illness as nutrition declines toward the end of life.

June 6, 2026Open Access

Parents’ Experiences of Feeding and Eating in Children with Conditions Requiring Palliative Care, at the End of Life, in Kuwait

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TATala Al‐dabbousLancaster University

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Qualitative study explores emotional and embodied experiences of parents feeding children nearing end of life, indicating significant grief implications.

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To explore parents’ experiences of feeding their child with a life-limiting illness as nutrition declines toward the end of life.
Constructivist Grounded Theory approach with parents (n=15) of children receiving palliative care in Kuwait.
Data collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews with purposive and theoretical sampling.
Data analyzed using initial, focused, and theoretical coding supported by fieldnotes and memoing.
Five categories identified: Eating and Feeding, Parental Duty and Obligation, Distress, Embodied Experience, and Grief.
Developed a Preliminary Model of Parent’s Embodied Experiences of Eating and Feeding Towards the End of a Child’s Life.
Parents experience a phasal embodied grief, intensifying from anticipatory grief to dominant grief at death and post-bereavement.

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Tala Al‐dabbous (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a23bafd71a5da9775e76951 https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/3260

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Qualitative study explores emotional and embodied experiences of parents feeding children nearing end of life, indicating significant grief implications.

Parents’ Experiences of Feeding and Eating in Children with Conditions Requiring Palliative Care, at the End of Life, in Kuwait

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