Helping parents live with the hole in their heart: The role of health care providers and institutions in the bereaved parents' grief journeys

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• 作者：Jennifer M. Snaman ; Erica C. Kaye ; Carlos Torres ; Deborah V. Gibson and Justin N. Baker
• 刊名：Cancer
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 1, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：122
• 期：17
• 页码：2757-2765
• 全文大小：125K
• ISSN：1097-0142

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Bereaved parents experience significant psychosocial and health sequelae, suggesting that this population may benefit from the ongoing extension of support and resources throughout the grief journey. The interaction of hospital staff with patients and families at the end of a child's life and after death profoundly affects parental grief, offering a unique opportunity for the medical community to positively impact the bereavement experience. The current study was conducted to explore the role of the health care team and medical institutions in the grief journeys of parents whose child died a cancer-related death.