Grief and stillbirth.

Factors associated with the grief after stillbirth: a comparative study between Brazilian and Canadian women.

OBJECTIVE To verify the association between complicated grief and sociodemographic, reproductive, mental, marital satisfaction, and professional support characteristics in women after stillbirth. METHOD Cross-sectional study with 26 women who had stillbirth in 2013, living in the city of Maringá, Brazil, and eight women who attended the Centre d'Études et de Rechercheen Intervention Familiale...

Stillbirth Understanding and Management

Grief and bereavement.

Bereavement support is an integral part of palliative care. Grieving after loss is a normal process; however, some grief reactions become complicated and may seriously compromise the health of an individual. Routine bereavement care helps identify people at risk of complicated grieving. The burden of grief can last for years, sometimes indefinitely. People caring for the bereaved need to pay sp...

Traumatic and complicated grief?

A recent article from Duarte et al. focused on the assessment of child mental health problems related to exposure to violence. The authors also referred to the process of grief among children and to its potential to trigger abnormal reactions, or psychopathology. Relating to the topic, the article lacks consistency, what deserves to be pointed out. The authors mentioned (1 paragraph of section ...

Caregiving, bereavement and complicated grief.

Most deaths are preceded by chronic illness and disability and the provision of support by family caregivers. The purpose of this article is to describe how the caregiving experience affects bereavement, with an emphasis on the relationship between challenging caregiving situations and difficult grieving processes - often referred to as `complicated grief'. The article starts with a brief summa...