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Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted thousands of individuals’ experience of caregiving and grief. This qualitative study aimed to gain in-dept understanding of family caregivers’ lived experiences of caregiving and bereavement in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, Canada. The s...

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Autores principales: Guité-Verret, Alexandra, Vachon, Melanie, Ummel, Deborah, Lessard, Emilie, Francoeur-Carron, Camille
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8567898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34714218
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2021.1996872
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author Guité-Verret, Alexandra
Vachon, Melanie
Ummel, Deborah
Lessard, Emilie
Francoeur-Carron, Camille
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Vachon, Melanie
Ummel, Deborah
Lessard, Emilie
Francoeur-Carron, Camille
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description Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted thousands of individuals’ experience of caregiving and grief. This qualitative study aimed to gain in-dept understanding of family caregivers’ lived experiences of caregiving and bereavement in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, Canada. The study also aimed at providing new insight about caregiving and bereavement by analysing the metaphors family caregivers use to report their experiences. Methods: The design of this study was guided by an interpretative phenomenological approach. In-depth interviews were conducted with twenty bereaved family caregivers who had lost a loved one during the first waves of the pandemic. Results: Results indicate that bereaved family caregivers lived and understood their experience in terms of metaphoric cut-offs, obstructions and shockwaves. These three metaphors represented the grief process and the bereaved’s quest for social connection, narrative coherence and recognition. Conclusion: By identifying the meaning of the bereaved’s metaphors and the quest they reveal, our study underlines the singularity of pandemic grief and points to the value and meaning of caregiving with regard to the grieving process.
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spelling pubmed-85678982021-11-05 Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic Guité-Verret, Alexandra Vachon, Melanie Ummel, Deborah Lessard, Emilie Francoeur-Carron, Camille Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being Empirical Studies Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted thousands of individuals’ experience of caregiving and grief. This qualitative study aimed to gain in-dept understanding of family caregivers’ lived experiences of caregiving and bereavement in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, Canada. The study also aimed at providing new insight about caregiving and bereavement by analysing the metaphors family caregivers use to report their experiences. Methods: The design of this study was guided by an interpretative phenomenological approach. In-depth interviews were conducted with twenty bereaved family caregivers who had lost a loved one during the first waves of the pandemic. Results: Results indicate that bereaved family caregivers lived and understood their experience in terms of metaphoric cut-offs, obstructions and shockwaves. These three metaphors represented the grief process and the bereaved’s quest for social connection, narrative coherence and recognition. Conclusion: By identifying the meaning of the bereaved’s metaphors and the quest they reveal, our study underlines the singularity of pandemic grief and points to the value and meaning of caregiving with regard to the grieving process. Taylor & Francis 2021-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8567898/ /pubmed/34714218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2021.1996872 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (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
Ummel, Deborah
Lessard, Emilie
Francoeur-Carron, Camille
Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic
title Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic
title_full Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic
title_short Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic
title_sort expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the covid-19 pandemic
topic Empirical Studies
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8567898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34714218
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2021.1996872
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