Department of Health Care Sciences, Palliative Research Center, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College, Stockholm, Sweden; National Center for Disaster Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Department of Health Care Sciences, Palliative Research Center, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College, Stockholm, Sweden; Capio Palliative Care Unit, Dalen Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Health Care Sciences, Palliative Research Center, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Women's and Children's Health, Childhood Cancer Research Unit, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Annually, approximately five per cent of dependent children - aged under eighteen years - in the United Kingdom (UK), experience parental death. Nurses and social workers caring for parents with life-...
We conducted three rounds of a classic-Delphi survey to identify and measure a panel of topic experts' consensus on the priorities and issues for nurses and social workers when supporting families and...
Ninety per cent (n=18/20) of the issues for nurses and social workers and all (7/7) of the priorities rated and ordered in the survey achieved consensus. Key priorities were 1) training in opening con...
We identified priorities for UK nurses and social workers. Further research is needed to identify which of these nurses and social workers would benefit most from support, and how any resultant interv...
This study aims at investigating the current status of death literacy and parent's death quality among adult children in China. A cross-sectional survey was conducted to explore the associations betwe...
A cross-sectional design was adopted. Participants who experienced their father's and/or mother's death were recruited from 5 cities in the GBA of China in 2022. The Good Death Inventory (GDI) and the...
A total of 511 participants were recruited. Participants with higher GDI scores were positively associated with DLI scores (...
This study investigated death literacy among bereaved adult children in China, filling a gap in the investigation of death literacy among Chinese residents. It found that parents' death experience can...
The Walt Disney company has been the topic of extensive research for decades; among the explored subjects and identified themes is Disney's fixation on death. Disney has capitalized on the incredibly ...
People age at different rates and the available evidence suggests that the rate of aging is partly inherited from previous generations. This heterogeneity in aging is evident already in midlife, but t...
Drawing on the inheritance of aging we use parental age at death as a proxy for aging-rates in the offspring, and study how age at first birth depends on this variable. We use data from an almost comp...
Longer parental lifespans were consistently associated with older age at first births, both in men and women....
Our findings suggest that aging-related processes may be interrelated with the processes underlying the timing of reproduction and are in general agreement with evolutionary theories of aging....
Hope is a complex and ever-evolving personal phenomenon that plays a vital role in individuals' abilities to cope with stressful events. This is particularly true for parents who are coping with the t...
This study investigates gender differences in the effect of parents' deaths on sibling tension among bereaved adult children....
Previous scholarship on adult sibling relations following the deaths of parents presents inconsistent results. These disparate findings may stem from past studies not taking into consideration the gen...
Analyses are based on three harmonized waves of quantitative and qualitative data collected from 654 adult children nested within 303 families as part of the Within-Family Differences Study....
Multilevel models revealed that for daughters, but not sons, mothers' deaths in the past five years were associated with increases in sibling tension, whereas fathers' deaths did not predict changes i...
These findings underscore how gender of both parents and adult children differentially shape changes in adult children's relationships with their siblings in the face parental deaths, much as they do ...
Recovery from traumatic grief after parental loss is a challenging and gradual process. The current study aimed to capture the rich and nuanced experiences of adolescents' healing process after trauma...
Parents who experience neonatal loss have the option to participate in autopsy, organ donation, and research donation. However, clinicians are uncomfortable discussing autopsy and may not be aware of ...
To capture the perspectives of parents who had experienced neonatal loss about autopsy, organ donation, and research donation....
This qualitative study used virtual focus groups with parents who attended a local bereavement support group in the US. Participants were recruited from Helping After Neonatal Death, a support group w...
A total of 14 mothers engaged in the focus group; 9 (75%) were aged 30 to 39 years, and 8 (66%) were White. The mothers were overall well educated. The first main theme grew from the lived experience ...
In this qualitative study, parents who experienced neonatal loss endorsed the importance of offering parents the choice of autopsy, organ donation, or research donation with skillful and empathetic co...
(1) Background: The study's purpose was to explore the knowledge, perceptions, and confidence of mothers about infant care to reduce the risk of sudden unexpected infant death. (2) Methods: A purposef...
Black Americans experience the death of a parent much earlier in the life course than White Americans on average. However, studies have not considered whether the cardiovascular health consequences of...
