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“…So that only the memory of anger remains…”: An autoethnographic analysis of the loss and mourning of addicted parents Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Tímea Békési, Szilvia Kassai
Growing up in a family with addiction can have an impact at many points not only on childhood but also on adulthood. A child who grows up in a dysfunctional family could experience a grieving proce...
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The role of the social environment on dementia caregivers’ pre-death grief: A mixed- methods systematic review Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Yong Hao Ng, Keyuan Jiao, Margaret H. P. Suen, Juan Wang, Amy Y.M Chow
This systematic review examined the role of social environment in pre-death grief experiences of dementia caregivers. Ninety-three Chinese and English articles were included from a comprehensive se...
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Hearing the missing voices: Child and adolescent grief Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Michelle Roberts
Published in Death Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Suicide and the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study of discourse on an online pro-choice for suicide discussion forum Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Athena Kheibari, Spencer G. Lawson, Kathryn Szechy, Robert Sheehan
The COVID-19 pandemic had a widespread impact on millions of individuals. Many turned to social media as an outlet for sharing personal experiences, such as the impact of the pandemic on suicidalit...
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Family members’ experiences of bereavement in the emergency department: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Yingxin Peng, Haoming Wu, Min Zhang, Ping Huang
The emergency department (ED) is one of the places where patient deaths frequently occur. Understanding family members’ experiences of bereavement would help provide individualized bereavement care...
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The European Grief Conference, Copenhagen 2022: An effort to unite the field of bereavement care in Europe Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 H. Müller, E. Zsak, M. O’Connor, O. Keegan, T. Graven Østergaard, L. Holm Larsen
Bereavement care in Europe varies in quality and availability. Through greater collaboration across Europe, there could potentially be an opportunity to improve care. This article discusses the ina...
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A much-needed guide for today’s world Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Laura S. Wheat
Published in Death Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Inventory of Social Expectations in Bereavement: Development and psychometric validation of a new instrument Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Caroline Wanza, Winfried Rief, Bettina K. Doering
Negative expectations concerning social interactions contribute to feelings of loneliness. Since loneliness is one of the most pronounced challenges for bereaved individuals, we investigated grief-...
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Violence and suicide risk behavior in a nationally representative sample of youth aged 12-17: What does it mean to be at-risk? Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Nicholas Barr
Suicide attempts and school violence, including gun violence, are now leading causes of death in youth 12-17. This study applied a latent class analytic approach to investigate how heterogenous sub...
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Examining optimism and flourishing as protective factors of suicidality across the adult lifespan: A cross-sectional investigation in three Spanish age groups Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Edward C. Chang, Nicolás Sánchez-Álvarez, Lourdes Rey, Natalio Extremera
We examined optimism and flourishing as unique protective predictors of suicidality (viz., suicidal ideation and suicidal behaviors) in a cross-sectional study of young adults (18–35 years), middle...
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Continuing Bonds in grieving men: A comparative description of Costa Rica and Spain Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Daniel Martínez-Esquivel, Derby Muñoz-Rojas, Pedro Ruymán Brito-Brito, Martín Rodríguez-Álvaro, Alfonso Miguel García-Hernández
Continuing Bonds among grieving men from Costa Rica and Spain were compared, with the primary hypothesis that there would be significant differences between the two groups. A descriptive, comparati...
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Implicit or explicit self-associations with life and death? Predicting short-term self-injurious thoughts and behaviors among adolescents Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 N. Toukhy, Y. Gvion, S. Barzilay, A. Apter, L. Haruvi-Catalan, M. Lavidor, N. Benaroya-Milshtein, S. Fennig, S. Hamdan
Implicit self-association with death, measured by the Death/Suicide-Implicit Association Test (D/S-IAT), predicts short-term Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors (SITBs) among adolescents. However...
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Prenatal twin-less twins: The congenital loss experience of individuals who lost a twin sibling in utero Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Michal Mahat-Shamir
Congenital loss involves the loss of an immediate family member, specifically a parent or sibling, either during or prior to birth, and bears unique bereavement-related challenges. The current stud...
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Development and validation of the Earthquake Obsession Scale Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Aslı Kartol, Servet Üztemur, Pınar Yaşar
Earthquakes are natural disasters that are very destructive and whose timing is unknown. These disasters can have a very negative effect on people’s mental health, and their effects can last for ma...
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Balancing roles: Teaching staff’s dilemma in supporting bereaved college students Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Martin Lytje, Atle Dyregrov
This study examines the challenges faced by teaching staff in supporting bereaved college students. A three-year study was conducted in Danish colleges, involving focus groups and 1-on-1 interviews...
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Death and grief in illustrated storybooks: an inventory of Swedish literature for young children Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Rakel Eklund
Storybooks play a crucial role in the experience of childhood. As death is an inevitable part of life, storybooks can be a helpful tool to start communicating about death and grief. The aim of this...
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Spanish adaptation of the Stillbirth Stigma Scale (SSS) Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Manuel Fernández-Alcántara, Ana Alejandra Esteban-Burgos, Silvia Escribano, Nereida Congost‐Maestre, Danielle Pollock, María José Cabañero-Martínez
The death of a baby in the perinatal period is considered a disenfranchized grief that can be a source of significant symptoms of guilt, shame, and stigma. There is a lack of validated instruments ...
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Do community-related traumatic events affect academic outcomes among adolescents? Quasi-experimental evidence from the Sewol disaster in South Korea Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Dirk Bethmann, Jae Il Cho
The sinking of the South Korean ferry Sewol in April 2014 claimed a total of 304 lives. Among the victims were 250 students from Dan-won High School in the city of Ansan and 11 of their teachers. F...
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Blogging at the end-of-life: Anticipatory grief, losses, and positive experiences in facing terminal illness Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Shana Worrell, Susan R. Hemer
This paper explores the experiences of people who blog about their own terminal illness and dying through the lens of anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief is a concept which is frequently applied...
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Mortuary attendants’ experiences of dealing with human dead bodies in Kavango and Zambezi regions: A qualitative study Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Filippine Nekulu Nakakuwa, Theresia Kabuku, Ndinohokwe F. Mukerenge
Mortuary attendants provide essential support services to healthcare delivery by providing afterlife care for mortal human remains. The study aimed to explore and describe the experiences of mortua...
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“A little bit different now”: Impacts of caregiving for parent with cancer on psychosocial development in emerging and young adulthood Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Emily L. Mroz, Amanda Kastrinos, Kelsey Bacharz, Carla L. Fisher, Allison J. Applebaum
Serving as a family caregiver for, and ultimately losing, a parent with advanced cancer in emerging and young adulthood has substantial, life phase-specific implications for psychosocial developmen...
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Experiences of grief and mourning practices of Greek bereaved adults during the pandemic: A qualitative approach Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Koliouli Flora, Canellopoulos Lissy, Stasinopoulou Irene, Risvas Charalampos, Livia Sani, Marie-Frédérique Bacqué
This pilot study aims to explore the experiences of grief and mourning practices of bereaved adults during the pandemic. Eleven adults who have lost a loved one since March 2020 participated in a s...
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Caregiver behaviors associated with positive youth development among bereaved children Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Rebecca Hoppe, Lauren Alvis, Benjamin Oosterhoff, Julie Kaplow
Grounded in Multidimensional Grief Theory, this study examined the cross-sectional associations between child-reported caregiver grief facilitation behaviors (ongoing connection, grief expression, ...
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Applying the phenomenology of grief: An autoethnographic study Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Arnout ter Haar, Geert E. Smid
In contrast to normative views on grief, phenomenological descriptions of grief aim to provide a comprehensive picture of the lived experience, providing space for both uniqueness and universality....
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The burden of grief: A scoping review of nurses’ and physicians’ experiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Sarah Burm, Selena MacDonald, Carolyn Melro, Erin Kennedy, Pauline Tran-Roop, Frances Kilbertus, Anna MacLeod, Susan Robinson, Jackie Phinney
Coping with loss is an unfortunate reality faced by healthcare professionals, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this challenge for those who worked on the frontlines. Our scoping review aimed t...
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Mothers’ views on death education for children aged 4–6 Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Fatma Kurttekin
This study forms the second phase of the research examining the inclusion of death in the Qur’an courses curriculum for children aged 4–6 years. The research aimed to determine the thoughts and fee...
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Knowing is half the battle: Regulating and appraising emotions co-protect from suicidal ideation Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Sergio Mérida-López, Cirenia Quintana-Orts, Keri A. Pekaar, Consolación Pineda-Galán, Natalio Extremera
College students, particularly those in healthcare fields, face an elevated risk of suicidal ideation and depression. Therefore, it is essential to explore how both actual and perceived emotional r...
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Unveiling studies on self-healing practices for suicide loss survivors: A scoping review Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Adelia Khrisna Putri, Gregory Armstrong, Diana Setiyawati, Karl Andriessen
This scoping review aimed to examine how self-healing practices had been addressed in the empirical literature on suicide bereavement. Adhering to PRISMA-ScR guidelines, we searched five databases ...
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Supports for university counselors impacted by student suicide: A systematic review and thematic synthesis Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Paula Diab, Katrina Andrews
The purpose of this systematic review and thematic synthesis was to identify and consolidate research on the support needs of impacted Higher Education (HE) counselors that have experienced a stude...
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Rebellious enlightenment Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Joachim Wittkowski
Published in Death Studies (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2024)
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Impacts of exposure to suicide of a military colleague from the lived experience of veterans: Informing postvention responses from a military cultural perspective Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Sacha Kendall Jamieson, Julie Cerel, Myfanwy Maple
Although exposure to the suicide death of a military colleague has been shown quantitatively to increase suicide risk factors among veterans, there are very few studies where veterans have been ask...
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Negotiating the postvention situation: A grounded theory of NHS staff experiences when supporting their coworkers following a colleague’s suicide Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Johanna Spiers, Hilary Causer, Nikos Efstathiou, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Anya Gopfert, Kathryn Grayling, Jill Maben, Maria van Hove, Ruth Riley
Suicide is a leading cause of death. NHS workers, especially female nurses, have heightened vulnerability. Being impacted by a colleague’s suicide can lead to increased suicidality. Postvention ref...
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A psychometric evaluation of the Life Attitudes Schedule-Short Form Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Robert J. Cramer, Matt R. Nobles, Emily Rooney, Susan Rasmussen
The Life Attitudes Schedule-Short Form (LAS-SF) is a measure of suicide proneness featuring various conceptual models. We tested four competing LAS-SF factor structures, as well as construct validi...
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Reflecting on death: Priorities for living well Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Kiana Cogdill-Richardson, Susan Bluck, Emily L. Mroz
The positive death movement has popularized considering one’s mortality. Stemming from this, Before I Die Walls erected globally prompt individual reflection on life goals, considering life’s finit...
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Honoring the moment of death: Lived experiences, practices, and rituals of internal medicine residents Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Adi Finkelstein, Adir Shaulov, Yoni Neustat
Given the limited information on physicians’ practices at the time of pronouncing a patient’s death, this study aimed to learn about the prevalence and purpose of internal medicine residents’ pract...
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Do insecure attachment styles predict prolonged grief symptoms? Significant null findings Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Antje Janshen, Paul A. Boelen, Henk A. W. Schut, Maarten C. Eisma
Insecure attachment is proposed to be a risk factor in the development and persistence of severe grief. Although prior research demonstrates positive cross-sectional and longitudinal correlations b...
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Association between suicidal ideation and burnout: A meta-analysis Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Javier Esparza-Reig, Martín Julián
Approximately 700,000 people die by suicide annually worldwide. Researchers have explored a spectrum of experiences that involve stress in academic or work environments and potentially intensify su...
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An analysis of the Painful and Provocative Events Scale: Some painful and provocative findings Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Ronald R. Holden, Rui C. Campos, Madeleine T. D’Agata
This research investigated the latent structure and correlates of the 26-item Painful and Provocative Events Scale (PPES). For a sample of 290 community respondents, results from parallel analysis ...
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Does time heal all wounds? An investigation of time, grief, and attitudes toward death Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Caitlin M. Reynolds, Daniel Grühn
When experiencing the loss of a loved one, individuals adapt and change how they understand death, how they interpret the meaning of the loss, and how they remember the deceased. In the present stu...
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Operationalization, implications and correlates of the cultural deviance criterion for ICD-11 and DSM-5 prolonged grief disorder Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 E. Redican, M. L. Vang, K. Komischke-Konnerup, A. Elklit, M. Shevlin, M. O’Connor
Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) is included in ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR and includes a requirement of cultural deviance. This study examined endorsement rates and factors associated with endorsement of t...
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Relatives’ grief at three moments after death of a loved one during COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study) Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Corine A. Nierop-van Baalen, F. Erica Witkamp, Ida J. Korfage, H. Roeline Pasman, Yvonne N. Becqué, Masha S. Zee, Agnes van der Heide, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-hilipsen, Anne Goossensen
COVID-19 has complicated grieving experiences. Rich qualitative description of these experiences is lacking. We interviewed 10 bereaved relatives (mainly daughters) 2–3 times each: shortly after th...
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Continuing bonds in parents after a loss in pregnancy, or a death at or shortly after birth: A population-based study Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Maria Birkegård Brintow, Christina Prinds, Maja O’Connor, Sören Möller, Tine Brink Henriksen, Sofie Mørk, Dorte Hvidtjørn
In this study, we describe continuing bonds and grief reactions and assess their association in 980 parents bereaved in pregnancy, at or shortly after birth. We found that most parents experienced ...
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“We were made to mourn”: A meta-ethnographic synthesis of living through the loss of a child to cancer for Latinx families in the United States Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Patricia Buzelli, Jennifer Snaman
Latinx children with cancer in the United States (US) are more than 50% more likely to die of their cancer compared to non-Latinx White children. Despite this disproportionate likelihood, little is...
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E-learning as a tool of suicide prevention training: A meta-analysis and systematic review Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Jim Schmeckenbecher, Simon Lentner, Christina Alma Emilian, Paul L. Plener, Anna Baran, Nestor D. Kapusta
Suicide is a global health challenge. One prevention strategy is teaching individuals how to detect and respond to suicidality. These training have increasingly been delivered online. We searched W...
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Experiences of prognosis disclosure versus nondisclosure among family caregivers of persons with advanced cancer Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Sravannthi Maya, Mahati Chittem, Shweta Chawak, Patricia A. Parker, Smita C. Banerjee
Caregiving in the South Asian context is often assumed by family automatically for the person with cancer (PWC). In this paper, we applied the disclosure decision-making model (DD-MM) to understand...
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The functions of the dreams of the deceased: A qualitative study of women bereaved by partner’s suicide Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Austėja Agnietė Čepulienė, Paulius Skruibis
Suicide bereavement is a challenging experience that affects relationships, feelings, and physical and mental health. The research on dreams during suicide bereavement might deepen the understandin...
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MAiD as human connection: Stories and metaphors of physician providers’ existential lived experience Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Rosanne Beuthin, Anne Bruce
Being the one who provides an assisted death is complex and profound, and yet the lived experience of this novel act is little understood in Canada. In this article, we highlight the methodological...
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Qur’an course teachers’ views on death education for children aged 4–6 Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Fatma Kurttekin
The aim of this study is to examine the views of teachers who teach Qur’an courses to 4–6 year-olds on the inclusion of death in the curriculum, their observations about children’s perceptions of a...
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Factors associated with suicide risk among Brazilian graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Nayara Paula Fernandes Martins Molina, Assis do Carmo Pereira Júnior, Gabriela Di Donato, Sandra Cristina Pillon, Kelly Graziani Giacchero Vedana, Verônica de Medeiros Alves, Adriana Inocenti Miasso
Though pandemic-related suicides are a concern, little is known about factors potentially linking graduate student life and suicide risk. This study identified factors associated with suicide risk ...
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Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Grief Impairment Scale Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Shahab Yousefi, Asghar Jafari
This study validated a Persian translation of the Grief Impairment Scale (GIS) in a sample of 548 grieving Iranian adults. Researchers recruited participants online using convenience and targeted s...
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Death in the Scottish curriculum: Denying or confronting? Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 S. Paul, L. del Carpio, P. Rodríguez, A. de la Herrán
The important role of schools in supporting children experiencing bereavement is established, yet less is known about how school curricula include death as part of life and this limits our understa...
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I occasionally wear his huge sweaters… but I often prefer not to think about it: Bereaved children talking and not talking about parental loss Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Galia Weinberg-Kurnik, Ronit D. Leichtentritt
The unique perspective of children communicating about the loss of a parent has rarely been studied. In this qualitative research, we interviewed 12 children aged 7–12 and asked them about their ex...
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Navigating the paradox: Strategies utilized by pregnant widows in an attempt to reconcile life and death Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Michal Mahat Shamir, Ronit D. Leichtentritt
Losing a spouse is a traumatic experience, especially at a younger age. This experience is arguably more intense and complex if the woman becomes a widow while pregnant. In the current study, we ex...
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How compassionate is your neighborhood? Results of a cross-sectional survey on neighborhood participation regarding serious illness, death, and loss Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Louise D’Eer, Kenneth Chambaere, Lieve Van den Block, Sarah Dury, Libby Sallnow, Luc Deliens, Tinne Smets, Joachim Cohen
We conducted a cross-sectional survey measuring the extent and nature of neighborhood participation regarding serious illness, death and loss and the factors that are associated with it. We distrib...
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Posttraumatic growth among participating and non-participating organ donor families in grief support groups Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Tamar Ashkenazi, Jonathan Cohen
This article aimed to assess posttraumatic growth among participating and nonparticipating families of organ donors in grief support groups. The program, in the form of both face-to-face and WhatsA...
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“It took so much of the humanness away”: Health care professional experiences providing care to dying patients during COVID-19 Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Lily Pankratz, Gagan Gill, Salina Pirzada, Kelsey Papineau, Kristin Reynolds, Christian La Riviere, James M. Bolton, Jennifer M. Hensel, Kendiss Olafson, Maia S. Kredentser, Renée El-Gabalawy, Tim Hiebert, Harvey Max Chochinov
COVID-19 has affected healthcare in profound and unprecedented ways, distorting the experiences of patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) alike. One area that has received little attention is...
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Relational closeness– not parasociality– determines the intensity of grief responses to celebrity death Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Alysse C. Baker, Elizabeth L. Cohen
This study interrogates the common assumption that parasocial grief, or grief for celebrities, is always less intense than grief for people in social relationships. An online 2 (Parasocial or Socia...
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The fearlessness about death scale’s efficacy for differentiating suicide attempts from non-suicidal self-injury, a meta-analysis Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Jim Schmeckenbecher, Anna Christina Philipp, Christina Alma Emilian, Claudia Zimmermann, Nestor D. Kapusta
We used multivariate meta-analysis modeling variances and covariances of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and non-suicidal self-injury to investigate if the Fearlessness About Death scale diffe...
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Providing a voice to the experience of bereavement support at Mexican workplaces Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Maria Eugenia Serricchio-Joiner
Literature on grief in the workplace is mainly represented in the last three decades and is predominantly western focused. An interpretative phenomenological research study was conducted using crit...
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Reimagining memorial spaces through digital technologies: A typology of CemTech Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Fraser Allison, Bjørn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold, Samuel Holleran, Tamara Kohn
Digital technologies are creating new ways for visitors to engage with cemeteries. This article presents research into the development of digital cemetery technologies, or cemtech, to understand ho...