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Families of organ donors between Jews and Arabs in Israel during a military operation: Constructing meaning through participation in an epistemic Community - Media analysis of two cases Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Shirley Ben-Shlomo, Ayelet Oreg, Noaz Cohen
This study explores how bereaved families of organ donors become participants in an ‘imagined epistemic community’ of organ donor families, amidst a national conflict between Jews and Arabs in Isra...
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Psychometric properties of the German version of the Pre-loss Grief Questionnaire (PG-12-R) Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Viktoria Schmidt, Julia Treml, Elmar Brähler, Anette Kersting
This study aimed to develop a German version of the revised Pre-loss Grief Questionnaire (PG-12-R) and examine its factor structure, reliability and validity. The PG-12-R was assessed in a represen...
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When a parent dies: A scoping review of protective and risk processes for childhood bereavement Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Rebecca Hoppe, Marcia A. Winter, Chelsea D. Williams, Irwin Sandler
The death of a parent can have profound effects on child development. Yet, little is known about the individual and environmental processes that contribute to heterogeneity in child bereavement out...
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Ideological meaning-making in the aftermath of traumatic loss: Radicalization as meaning Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Adi Barak, Mor Safyon, Liron Ben-Ezra
In this qualitative study we explore the concept of ideological meaning-making, with a focus on political radicalization and its relation to the process of meaning-making. Through interviews with 3...
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The stigmatization of prolonged grief disorder and disenfranchised grief: A vignette-based experimental study Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Ecem Sarper, David L. Rodrigues
People with prolonged grief disorder (PGD) are at risk of public stigma, but research has yet to examine whether stigma is shaped by different types of relationship losses. In an experimental study...
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"People aren’t happy to see refugees coming to Switzerland. They don’t like assisted suicide for foreigners": Organizations’ perspectives regarding the right-to-die and suicide tourism Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Daniel Sperling
The practice of suicide tourism refers to the traveling of individuals to other countries to seek legally permitted assisted suicide. This study employed a descriptive qualitative research approach...
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Filling in the gaps: A grounded theory of the experiences and needs of healthcare staff following a colleague death by suicide in the UK Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Hilary Causer, Johanna Spiers, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Nikolaos Efstathiou, Anya Gopfert, Kathryn Grayling, Jill Maben, Maria van Hove, Ruth Riley
Health-workers are more likely to die by suicide than their counterparts in other occupational groups. The suicide of a staff member can be widely felt by colleagues, leading to complex emotional a...
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“More support, less distress?”: Examining the role of social norms in alleviating practitioners’ psychological distress in the context of assisted dying services Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Susilo Wibisono, Payam Mavandadi, Stuart Wilkinson, Catherine Amiot, Liz Forbat, Emma F. Thomas, Felicity Allen, Jean Decety, Kerrie Noonan, Kiara Minto, Lauren J. Breen, Madison Kho, Monique Crane, Morgana Lizzio-Wilson, Pascal Molenberghs, Winnifred Louis
This study explores how providing assisted dying services affects the psychological distress of practitioners. It investigates the influence of professional norms that endorse such services within ...
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Validation of the Portuguese version of the Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale (ISLES) in a sample of bereaved individuals Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Sara Albuquerque, Mariana Henriques, Pedro Joel Rosa, Mayra Delalibera, Robert A. Neimeyer, Alexandra Coelho, João Batista
The Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale (ISLES) evaluates the ability to integrate stressful experiences into one’s meaning system. The present study developed and validated a version o...
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Breaking the news of the violent death of a close person to children under 18 years of age: A qualitative interview study Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Susanna Rinne-Wolf, Simon Finkeldei, Tita Kern
Children who lose a close person to suicide or homicide will most likely receive this news from a carer. The caregiver’s personal beliefs and approaches to addressing the topic will influence the c...
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The experiences of nursing students participating in a student death doula service-learning program in palliative care settings: A qualitative study Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Si Qi Yoong, Wenru Wang, Alvin Chuen Wei Seah, Joanne Oon Nee Gan, Laura Tham Schmidt, Hui Zhang
Nursing students desire more training and experience in palliative care due to a need for more skills and knowledge. This descriptive qualitative study explored nursing students’ experiences in par...
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Understanding how volunteer companionship impacts those during the end of life: A realist evaluation Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 John Downey, Susan Cooper, Lynn Bassett, Alejandra Dubeibe Fong, Margaret Doherty, Jon Cornwall
Volunteers are a popular unpaid support role in end of life care yet how accompaniment influences the dying is underdeveloped. This study examined how companionship works, for whom, in what circums...
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Grief Coach: Feasibility and acceptability of a text message program for bereavement support among grievers in the United Kingdom Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Deborah A. Levesque, Melissa M. Lunardini, Sarah N. Adams, Emma L. Payne, Bianca G. Neumann
To address gaps in bereavement services in the UK, a national charity offered free access to Grief Coach, a 12-month text message-based grief support program. To assess the feasibility and acceptab...
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Dynamic bidirectional relation between state mindfulness and suicidal ideation among female college students: The moderating effect of trait mindfulness Death Studies (IF 4.34) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Jingxian Li, Xiaohui Luo, Hongyun Liu
Research has indicated that mindfulness is a protective factor against suicidal ideation. However, the dynamic reciprocal relation between them has been understudied. In this study, 110 female coll...
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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...