Comfort Quest

The work

Tools and programs for every hard moment.

Comfort Quest builds patient support children can talk to, and partners with the programs already leading the field. Here's the work, in clinics and homes today.

For kids

SuperMeg

An interactive tool that helps a child build their own plan for a more comfortable needle poke. By answering a few questions and making their own choices, kids gain a sense of control, and the finished plan is emailed home to share with the care team.

SuperMeg welcoming a child at the start of the Poke Plan

Meg Foundation

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For teens

Take Control

A mobile app built for teenagers, helping older kids learn strategies and create a plan to feel more in control at a vaccine, blood test, or other procedure. Made for teens who found the kids' tool too young and the adult one too dry.

Take Control on a phone: the Breathe strategy, shown as a short animated video

Meg Foundation

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Parent education

Pain Champions

An interactive guide that helps parents and carers learn how needle pain and anxiety work, the strategies for managing them, and how to talk with kids and providers, so they can walk into the next appointment prepared.

SuperMeg and the Pain Champions: a parent chooses how long they have until the appointment

Meg Foundation

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Kids · Teens · Parents

The Comfort Ability

A clinical program developed by Dr Rachael Coakley that teaches children, teens, and parents proven coping skills for managing pain. Comfort Quest co-developed a personalised, clinically-informed plan builder that sits inside the program.

Cap Bot welcoming a family to The Comfort Ability Program

Boston Children's Hospital

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Parents · Clinicians

CALM Care

A consistent, comforting approach to procedural care, rolled out across Queensland Children's Hospital. We built the parent education and video resources, plus staff training for clinicians.

Illustration from the CALM Care training: a nurse places a cannula while a child sits on her mum's lap watching a phone

Queensland Children's Hospital

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Parent education and video are public. Staff training is delivered internally and isn't publicly available.

For BMT parents

DECIDE

Evidence-grounded support for parents of children undergoing bone marrow transplant, giving clear, source-cited answers to the questions that come at 2am. Built with Dr Karin Plummer and the team at Griffith University, deployed at Queensland Children's Hospital and expanding to the Royal Children's Hospital.

DECIDE on a phone: common questions parents ask before a bone marrow transplant

Griffith University · QCH · RCH

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Building comfort into your work?

If you're a clinician, researcher, or foundation working on the hard moments, we'd love to talk.

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