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Emotional upheaval, the essence of anticipatory grief in mothers of children with life threatening illnesses: a qualitative study
INTRODUCTION: Life-threatening illnesses in childhood are considered a crisis for the whole family, especially for the mother, which leads to experiencing different degrees of grief and emotional-behavioral problems. OBJECTIVE: The present study is conducted with the aim of explaining the concept of...
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author | Najafi, Kazem Shirinabadi Farahani, Azam Rassouli, Maryam Alavi Majd, Hamid Karami, Maryam |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Life-threatening illnesses in childhood are considered a crisis for the whole family, especially for the mother, which leads to experiencing different degrees of grief and emotional-behavioral problems. OBJECTIVE: The present study is conducted with the aim of explaining the concept of anticipatory grief from the perspective of the mothers of the children with life-threatening illnesses. METHODS: This qualitative study is part of a sequential exploratory research for model development in the field of anticipatory grief, which was conducted using conventional content analysis method. The data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 19 mothers of the children with life-threatening illnesses living in Shiraz and Tehran, who were selected through purposive sampling with maximum variation. When data saturation were achieved, the data were codified by MAXQDA-10 software and analyzed using Graneheim and Lundman’s approach. FINDINGS: Data analysis resulted in the identification of 8 subcategories including shock, irritability, fear of losing, feeling guilty, uncertainty, hopelessness, loneliness and isolation, and mourning without a coffin, all forming the major theme emotional upheaval. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: As the result of being in a situation of imminent and possible loss of her child, the mother experiences different responses of sadness and sorrow and suffers the consequences the core of which is consisted of emotional upheaval. Therefore, by explaining the behaviors related to anticipatory grief, efficient and effective interventions can be designed to improve coping among this group of mothers. |
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spelling | pubmed-93667552022-08-11 Emotional upheaval, the essence of anticipatory grief in mothers of children with life threatening illnesses: a qualitative study Najafi, Kazem Shirinabadi Farahani, Azam Rassouli, Maryam Alavi Majd, Hamid Karami, Maryam BMC Psychol Research INTRODUCTION: Life-threatening illnesses in childhood are considered a crisis for the whole family, especially for the mother, which leads to experiencing different degrees of grief and emotional-behavioral problems. OBJECTIVE: The present study is conducted with the aim of explaining the concept of anticipatory grief from the perspective of the mothers of the children with life-threatening illnesses. METHODS: This qualitative study is part of a sequential exploratory research for model development in the field of anticipatory grief, which was conducted using conventional content analysis method. The data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 19 mothers of the children with life-threatening illnesses living in Shiraz and Tehran, who were selected through purposive sampling with maximum variation. When data saturation were achieved, the data were codified by MAXQDA-10 software and analyzed using Graneheim and Lundman’s approach. FINDINGS: Data analysis resulted in the identification of 8 subcategories including shock, irritability, fear of losing, feeling guilty, uncertainty, hopelessness, loneliness and isolation, and mourning without a coffin, all forming the major theme emotional upheaval. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: As the result of being in a situation of imminent and possible loss of her child, the mother experiences different responses of sadness and sorrow and suffers the consequences the core of which is consisted of emotional upheaval. Therefore, by explaining the behaviors related to anticipatory grief, efficient and effective interventions can be designed to improve coping among this group of mothers. BioMed Central 2022-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9366755/ /pubmed/35953867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00904-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Najafi, Kazem Shirinabadi Farahani, Azam Rassouli, Maryam Alavi Majd, Hamid Karami, Maryam Emotional upheaval, the essence of anticipatory grief in mothers of children with life threatening illnesses: a qualitative study |
title | Emotional upheaval, the essence of anticipatory grief in mothers of children with life threatening illnesses: a qualitative study |
title_full | Emotional upheaval, the essence of anticipatory grief in mothers of children with life threatening illnesses: a qualitative study |
title_fullStr | Emotional upheaval, the essence of anticipatory grief in mothers of children with life threatening illnesses: a qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | Emotional upheaval, the essence of anticipatory grief in mothers of children with life threatening illnesses: a qualitative study |
title_short | Emotional upheaval, the essence of anticipatory grief in mothers of children with life threatening illnesses: a qualitative study |
title_sort | emotional upheaval, the essence of anticipatory grief in mothers of children with life threatening illnesses: a qualitative study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9366755/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35953867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00904-7 |
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