TY - JOUR AU - Paajanen, Anna AU - Annerstedt, Kristi Sidney AU - Atkins, Salla PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/25 TI - “Like filling a lottery ticket with quite high stakes”: a qualitative study exploring mothers’ needs and perceptions of state-provided financial support for a child with a long-term illness in Finland JO - BMC Public Health SP - 208 VL - 21 IS - 1 AB - A child’s long-term illness or disability is always a serious matter that impacts the whole family. Costs related to an illness can substantially affect a family’s financial situation. To date, there is little research on how parents experience available support for financial assistance. Surveys in Finland have found that families of children with long-term illnesses and disabilities could experience financial struggle and perceive the state provided financial support system as too complex. This article aimed to explore how caregivers of children with long-term illnesses perceived their financial situation, need for financial support and experienced its provision by the state in the Helsinki greater region. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-10015-w DO - 10.1186/s12889-020-10015-w ID - Paajanen2021 ER -