OBJECTIVE Our goal was to identify and describe types of meaning-making processes that occur among parents during bereavement meetings with their child's intensive care physician after their child's death in a pediatric intensive care unit. METHODS Fifty-three parents of 35 deceased children participated in a bereavement meeting with their child's physician 14.5 ± 6.3 weeks after the child's ...

A. (2012). 'Sense of presence' experiences in bereavement and their relationship to mental health: A critical examination of a continuing controversy. In C. Murray (Ed.), Mental health and anomalous experience (pp.33-The experience of sensing the presence of the deceased is a common occurrence following bereavement. Although this experience tends to be reported as positive and meaningful by per...

Complicated grief reactions are relatively common following spousal bereavement. Old age spousal loss qualifies as a possible traumatic stressor, however, PTSD as a possible complication of the loss has rarely been explored in this population. This study aimed to investigate the frequency of PTSD in elderly bereaved people across the first 18 months of bereavement. Additionally, risk factors fo...

PURPOSE The psychological distress of pediatricians is a major problem in bereavement care. In this study, the primary factor related to distress is clarified and the future directions of bereavement care provided by pediatricians are examined. METHOD A questionnaire was mailed to Japanese pediatricians belonging to the High-risk Infant Follow-up Association and the Society of Child Neurology...

BACKGROUND Research suggests that there may be bereavement experiences and support needs which are specific to family caregivers providing end of life care (EoLC), although this remains an under-researched area. This paper focuses on themes relating to bereavement which were derived from an analysis of free text survey responses collected in a research priority setting exercise for palliative a...

BACKGROUND Multicenter research has the potential to recruit participants with diverse racial, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds and is essential for understanding heterogeneity in bereavement. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN) is a multicenter network charged with conducting research on the pathophysiol...

Objective: to identify predictors of mortality among a national sample of elderly widowed people 28 years post-baseline interview. Design and setting: face to face home interview survey across England. Measures: physical, psychological, social, and socio-economic status and circumstances. Results: excess risk of mortality, which had been noted up to six months post bereavement among males aged ...

OBJECTIVE This article describes the pilot testing of a community survey to ascertain the experiences and needs of people who were bereaved 6-24 months before the survey. The pilot study aimed to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the survey and test the theoretical public health model for bereavement support. METHODS A postal survey was used to collect information from clients of th...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the role of spousal bereavement and positive emotion in naturally occurring levels of daily cortisol. METHODS Analyses were conducted using data from the Midlife in the United States survey and the National Study of Daily Experiences. Baseline assessments of extraversion, neuroticism, trait positive emotion, and trait negative emotion were ...

BACKGROUND Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major disease among adults, and its deterioration was reported to be associated with psychological imbalance. Meanwhile, bereavement and divorce have proven harmful to the health status of a surviving spouse. But few studies have been conducted to evaluate the remedial effect on survivors' health outcome by remarriage after bereavemen...