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Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Bereaved: A Study of Bereaved Weibo Users
The global COVID-19 pandemic may significantly affect the experiences of death and bereavement. This study aimed to learn from recent outbreaks of infectious diseases and further understand their impacts on bereavement. We obtained psychological status scores for 32 individuals bereaved due to COVID...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8231593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34204707 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9060724 |
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author | Han, Nuo Chen, Gewei Li, Sijia Huang, Feng Wang, Xiaoyang Ren, Xiaopeng Zhu, Tingshao |
author_facet | Han, Nuo Chen, Gewei Li, Sijia Huang, Feng Wang, Xiaoyang Ren, Xiaopeng Zhu, Tingshao |
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description | The global COVID-19 pandemic may significantly affect the experiences of death and bereavement. This study aimed to learn from recent outbreaks of infectious diseases and further understand their impacts on bereavement. We obtained psychological status scores for 32 individuals bereaved due to COVID-19 and 127 individuals bereaved due to non-COVID-19 causes using the online ecological recognition (OER) approach. Next, a sentiment analysis and independent sample t-test were performed to examine the differences between these two groups. The results indicated that the individuals bereaved due to COVID-19 were more insecure and more preoccupied with the grief of the moment than those bereaved due to non-COVID-19 reasons, while the latter group had higher depression scores than the former group. This study can guide policy-makers and clinical practitioners to provide more targeted and sustainable post-bereavement support for both bereaved groups during the COVID-19 period. |
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spelling | pubmed-82315932021-06-26 Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Bereaved: A Study of Bereaved Weibo Users Han, Nuo Chen, Gewei Li, Sijia Huang, Feng Wang, Xiaoyang Ren, Xiaopeng Zhu, Tingshao Healthcare (Basel) Article The global COVID-19 pandemic may significantly affect the experiences of death and bereavement. This study aimed to learn from recent outbreaks of infectious diseases and further understand their impacts on bereavement. We obtained psychological status scores for 32 individuals bereaved due to COVID-19 and 127 individuals bereaved due to non-COVID-19 causes using the online ecological recognition (OER) approach. Next, a sentiment analysis and independent sample t-test were performed to examine the differences between these two groups. The results indicated that the individuals bereaved due to COVID-19 were more insecure and more preoccupied with the grief of the moment than those bereaved due to non-COVID-19 reasons, while the latter group had higher depression scores than the former group. This study can guide policy-makers and clinical practitioners to provide more targeted and sustainable post-bereavement support for both bereaved groups during the COVID-19 period. MDPI 2021-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8231593/ /pubmed/34204707 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9060724 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Han, Nuo Chen, Gewei Li, Sijia Huang, Feng Wang, Xiaoyang Ren, Xiaopeng Zhu, Tingshao Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Bereaved: A Study of Bereaved Weibo Users |
title | Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Bereaved: A Study of Bereaved Weibo Users |
title_full | Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Bereaved: A Study of Bereaved Weibo Users |
title_fullStr | Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Bereaved: A Study of Bereaved Weibo Users |
title_full_unstemmed | Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Bereaved: A Study of Bereaved Weibo Users |
title_short | Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Bereaved: A Study of Bereaved Weibo Users |
title_sort | impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on the bereaved: a study of bereaved weibo users |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8231593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34204707 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9060724 |
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