Table 1 PICOs inclusion and exclusion criteria

Population

● Biological parents and/or legal guardians of deceased neonates and/or children up to the age of 12 years of life [67]

● Parents who are not related by the law or by blood

● Non-1st degree relatives

● Patients who are adolescents above the age of 12

Intervention

● Intervention programmes for parents of deceased neonates up to the age of 12 between 1st January 2000 and 31st December 2020

NA

Comparison Outcome

● Outcomes of intervention programmes

● Changes in parents’ personhood

● Programme evaluation results, from forms and questionnaires done by bereaved parents

● Gaps and improvements to current intervention programmes

● Views of bereaved parents on healthcare and intervention programmes

● Observations and recounts of parental behaviour by healthcare staff

Study design

● All study designs and article types were included (observational studies, randomised controlled trials, cohort studies, cross-sectional studies, longitudinal studies and case studies, ancestry approach/review) in the English language

● Non-English language articles