The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on grief experiences of bereaved relatives: an overview review

T van Schaik, MA Brouwer, NE Knibbe… - OMEGA-Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted grief experiences of bereaved relatives and altered
accustomed ways of coping with loss. To understand how bereaved relatives experienced …

Risk factors for dysfunctional grief and functional impairment for all causes of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning

LJ Breen, VO Mancini, SA Lee, EA Pappalardo… - Death …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with significant social changes due to legislative and
public health requirements, has changed the way in which people experience grief. We …

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 …

The up-side of the COVID-19 pandemic: are core belief violation and meaning making associated with post-traumatic growth?

M Castiglioni, CL Caldiroli, R Procaccia… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health has been extensively
documented, while its possible positive impact on the individual, defined as Post-Traumatic …

'Losing the illusion of control and predictability of life': experiences of grief and loss among ageing US adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

TL Statz, LC Kobayashi, JM Finlay - Ageing & Society, 2023 - cambridge.org
Bereavement and grief are frequently experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic given
widespread mortality. However, losses extend beyond deaths to include cancelled plans …

The mental health of Australians bereaved during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic: a latent class analysis

F Maccallum, LJ Breen, JL Phillips, MR Agar… - Psychological …, 2024 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many areas of life, including culturally
accepted practices at end-of-life care, funeral rites, and access to social, community, and …

Grief and functional impairment following COVID-19 loss in a treatment-seeking sample: the mediating role of meaning

LJ Breen, SA Lee, VO Mancini, M Willis… - British Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented levels of grief and psychological
distress in community samples. We examined unique pandemic grief risk factors …

Unfinished business and self-blaming emotions among those bereaved by a COVID-19 death

SA Lee, RA Neimeyer, VO Mancini, LJ Breen - Death studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In view of the mounting death toll of COVID-19 worldwide and the complicating
circumstances that commonly accompany such losses, we studied the grief experiences of …

French-Canadian validation of the traumatic grief inventory-self report (TGI-SR)

J Cherblanc, C Gagnon, I Côté, C Bergeron-Leclerc… - Death studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Traumatic Grief Inventory Self-Report (TGI-SR), which aims to assess both
Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder and Prolonged Grief Disorder, has been …

Public stigma toward prolonged grief and COVID-19 bereavement: A vignette-based experiment

T Zammit, VO Mancini, C Reid, J Singer… - Death …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We investigated the effects of cause of death and the presence of prolonged grief disorder
(PGD) on eliciting public stigma toward the bereaved. Participants (N= 328, 76% female; M …