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Family members of deceased palliative care patients receiving bereavement anniversary cards: a survey on the recipient’s reactions and opinions
BACKGROUND: Bereavement support is part of palliative care. Sending out bereavement anniversary cards is one intervention of follow-up support for the bereaved. This study evaluated the suitability of bereavement anniversary cards as an appropriate method in bereavement care. METHODS: A questionnair...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5395801/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28424058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-017-0199-7 |
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author | Goebel, Swantje Mai, Sandra Stephanie Gerlach, Christina Windschmitt, Ulrike Feldmann, Karl-Heinz Weber, Martin |
author_facet | Goebel, Swantje Mai, Sandra Stephanie Gerlach, Christina Windschmitt, Ulrike Feldmann, Karl-Heinz Weber, Martin |
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description | BACKGROUND: Bereavement support is part of palliative care. Sending out bereavement anniversary cards is one intervention of follow-up support for the bereaved. This study evaluated the suitability of bereavement anniversary cards as an appropriate method in bereavement care. METHODS: A questionnaire was sent to each card recipient since the starting point of this practice (October 2014-June 2015). Data was analyzed descriptively. RESULTS: 24 of 68 deliverable questionnaires were returned (response rate 35%). 22 out of 24 recipients felt pleased receiving the card. No participant felt annoyed on receiving the bereavement anniversary card; every participant agreed to at least one positive reaction (i.e. pleased, grateful or consoled). CONCLUSIONS: The participants’ reactions and opinions about receiving the anniversary card were decidedly positive and indicate the continuation of this practice. Those few less pleased reactions may be related to timing and the first anniversary of the patients’ death and therefore an expression of grief rather than a dissatisfaction with bereavement anniversary cards, as such. |
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spelling | pubmed-53958012017-04-20 Family members of deceased palliative care patients receiving bereavement anniversary cards: a survey on the recipient’s reactions and opinions Goebel, Swantje Mai, Sandra Stephanie Gerlach, Christina Windschmitt, Ulrike Feldmann, Karl-Heinz Weber, Martin BMC Palliat Care Research Article BACKGROUND: Bereavement support is part of palliative care. Sending out bereavement anniversary cards is one intervention of follow-up support for the bereaved. This study evaluated the suitability of bereavement anniversary cards as an appropriate method in bereavement care. METHODS: A questionnaire was sent to each card recipient since the starting point of this practice (October 2014-June 2015). Data was analyzed descriptively. RESULTS: 24 of 68 deliverable questionnaires were returned (response rate 35%). 22 out of 24 recipients felt pleased receiving the card. No participant felt annoyed on receiving the bereavement anniversary card; every participant agreed to at least one positive reaction (i.e. pleased, grateful or consoled). CONCLUSIONS: The participants’ reactions and opinions about receiving the anniversary card were decidedly positive and indicate the continuation of this practice. Those few less pleased reactions may be related to timing and the first anniversary of the patients’ death and therefore an expression of grief rather than a dissatisfaction with bereavement anniversary cards, as such. BioMed Central 2017-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5395801/ /pubmed/28424058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-017-0199-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Goebel, Swantje Mai, Sandra Stephanie Gerlach, Christina Windschmitt, Ulrike Feldmann, Karl-Heinz Weber, Martin Family members of deceased palliative care patients receiving bereavement anniversary cards: a survey on the recipient’s reactions and opinions |
title | Family members of deceased palliative care patients receiving bereavement anniversary cards: a survey on the recipient’s reactions and opinions |
title_full | Family members of deceased palliative care patients receiving bereavement anniversary cards: a survey on the recipient’s reactions and opinions |
title_fullStr | Family members of deceased palliative care patients receiving bereavement anniversary cards: a survey on the recipient’s reactions and opinions |
title_full_unstemmed | Family members of deceased palliative care patients receiving bereavement anniversary cards: a survey on the recipient’s reactions and opinions |
title_short | Family members of deceased palliative care patients receiving bereavement anniversary cards: a survey on the recipient’s reactions and opinions |
title_sort | family members of deceased palliative care patients receiving bereavement anniversary cards: a survey on the recipient’s reactions and opinions |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5395801/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28424058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-017-0199-7 |
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