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A Phenomenological and Clinical Description of Pandemic Grief: How to Adapt Bereavement Services?

BACKGROUND: Some studies suggest that individuals having lost a loved one during the COVID-19 pandemic report higher levels of grief reactions than people bereaved from natural causes. Little is known about the lived and subjective experience of individuals who lost a loved one under confinement mea...

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Autores principales: Vachon, Melanie, Ummel, Deborah, Guité-Verret, Alexandra, Lessard, Emilie, Girard, Dominique
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10024582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36941970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/pmr.2022.0060
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author Vachon, Melanie
Ummel, Deborah
Guité-Verret, Alexandra
Lessard, Emilie
Girard, Dominique
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Ummel, Deborah
Guité-Verret, Alexandra
Lessard, Emilie
Girard, Dominique
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description BACKGROUND: Some studies suggest that individuals having lost a loved one during the COVID-19 pandemic report higher levels of grief reactions than people bereaved from natural causes. Little is known about the lived and subjective experience of individuals who lost a loved one under confinement measures. AIM: This research aims to provide a phenomenological description of pandemic grief (PG) that can be useful in clinical settings and bereavement services. METHODS: Seventy-six qualitative phenomenological interviews have been conducted with 37 individuals who have lost a loved one during the first wave of the pandemic. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was performed following Tracy's criteria for rigorous qualitative research. RESULTS: The experience of PG comprises clinical manifestations and can be described as “a type of grief occurring in the context of a pandemic, where applicable public health measures have precedence over end of life and caregiving practices as well as funeral rituals, overshadowing the needs, values, and wishes of the dying individuals and those who grieve them.” DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION: This study is the first to provide a phenomenological and experiential understanding of PG. Our phenomenological description can be helpful in clinical settings such as bereavement services within palliative care teams.
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spelling pubmed-100245822023-03-19 A Phenomenological and Clinical Description of Pandemic Grief: How to Adapt Bereavement Services? Vachon, Melanie Ummel, Deborah Guité-Verret, Alexandra Lessard, Emilie Girard, Dominique Palliat Med Rep Brief Report BACKGROUND: Some studies suggest that individuals having lost a loved one during the COVID-19 pandemic report higher levels of grief reactions than people bereaved from natural causes. Little is known about the lived and subjective experience of individuals who lost a loved one under confinement measures. AIM: This research aims to provide a phenomenological description of pandemic grief (PG) that can be useful in clinical settings and bereavement services. METHODS: Seventy-six qualitative phenomenological interviews have been conducted with 37 individuals who have lost a loved one during the first wave of the pandemic. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was performed following Tracy's criteria for rigorous qualitative research. RESULTS: The experience of PG comprises clinical manifestations and can be described as “a type of grief occurring in the context of a pandemic, where applicable public health measures have precedence over end of life and caregiving practices as well as funeral rituals, overshadowing the needs, values, and wishes of the dying individuals and those who grieve them.” DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION: This study is the first to provide a phenomenological and experiential understanding of PG. Our phenomenological description can be helpful in clinical settings such as bereavement services within palliative care teams. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2023-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10024582/ /pubmed/36941970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/pmr.2022.0060 Text en © Melanie Vachon et al., 2023; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License [CC-BY] (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Vachon, Melanie
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Guité-Verret, Alexandra
Lessard, Emilie
Girard, Dominique
A Phenomenological and Clinical Description of Pandemic Grief: How to Adapt Bereavement Services?
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title_full A Phenomenological and Clinical Description of Pandemic Grief: How to Adapt Bereavement Services?
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title_short A Phenomenological and Clinical Description of Pandemic Grief: How to Adapt Bereavement Services?
title_sort phenomenological and clinical description of pandemic grief: how to adapt bereavement services?
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10024582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36941970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/pmr.2022.0060
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