Silent suffering of the dying and their families: impact of COVID‐19

NT Katz, M McInerney, G Ravindran… - Internal medicine …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Death, grief and bereavement all look different in the current COVID‐19 pandemic. Patients
and families are suffering as a result of COVID‐19 itself, and the measures required to …

Exploring loss and grief during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review of qualitative studies

X Tao, CC Yu, JA Low - Annals of the Academy of Medicine …, 2022 - dr.ntu.edu.sg
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about multiple losses to various groups, namely
patients, families and healthcare professionals. Grief, which is the reaction to these losses …

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed dying and grief: Will there be a surge of complicated grief?

TR Jordan, AJ Wotring, CA McAfee, M Polavarapu… - Death studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Worldwide, more than 3 million people have died from COVID-19. Each decedent
represents a person who was loved, will be missed, and whose death elicited grief. COVID …

Grief experience after deaths: Comparison of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 causes

N Shahini, S Abbassani… - Journal of Patient …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The grief caused by loved ones' death causes grief is a global phenomenon. The Covid-19
pandemic caused significant changes in human lifestyles and the experience of grief. The …

Mourning in the time of coronavirus: Examining how grief differs in those who lost loved ones to COVID-19 vs. natural causes in Iran

H Aliyaki, F Momeni, B Dolatshahi… - Palliative & Supportive …, 2024 - cambridge.org
ObjectivesOur study aimed to analyze and compare the grief experiences of individuals in
Iran who lost family members to COVID-19 and those who lost loved ones to other natural …

[HTML][HTML] Supporting adults bereaved through COVID-19: a rapid review of the impact of previous pandemics on grief and bereavement

CR Mayland, AJE Harding, N Preston… - Journal of pain and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The global COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have a major impact on the experience of death,
dying, and bereavement. This study aimed to review and synthesize learning from previous …

COVID-19: Encountering never-before-known suffering

M Rattner - Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
As palliative care providers, we are used to encountering suffering—both physical and
nonphysical—in our day-to-day work. While there is much we can do to relieve physical …

Bereavement outcomes in family members of those who died in acute care hospitals before and during the first wave of COVID-19: A cohort study

J Downar, HA Parsons, L Cohen… - Palliative …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of deaths worldwide, leading to
symptoms of grief among the bereaved. Neither the burden of severe grief nor its predictors …

Investigation into grief experiences of the bereaved during the Covid-19 pandemic

M Asgari, M Ghasemzadeh… - OMEGA-Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The objective of the current study was to investigate the grief experiences of people affected
by COVID-19. The study adopted a qualitative design of descriptive phenomenology. Fifteen …

COVID-19, natural, and unnatural bereavement: comprehensive comparisons of loss circumstances and grief severity

MC Eisma, A Tamminga - European journal of psychotraumatology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background Acute grief appears more severe after COVID-19 deaths than natural deaths.
Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) also appears prevalent following COVID-19 deaths …