Complicated grief after perinatal loss

A Kersting, B Wagner - Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The loss of an infant through stillbirth, miscarriage, or neonatal death is recognized as a
traumatic life event. Predictors of development of complicated grief after prenatal loss …

Psychological aspects of perinatal loss

W Badenhorst, P Hughes - Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & …, 2007 - Elsevier
After perinatal loss, parents experience painful grief. Fathers and mothers show the same
pattern of symptoms, but generally mothers' distress is more intense. Grief should be …

International comparison of studies using the perinatal grief scale: a decade of research on pregnancy loss

L J. Toedter, Judith N. Lasker, Hettie JEM Janssen - Death studies, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
The Perinatal Grief Scale (PGS) has been used in many studies of loss in pregnancy,
including miscarriage, stillbirth, induced abortion, neonatal death, and relinquishment for …

Controlled prospective study of the mental health of women following pregnancy loss

HJEM Janssen, MCJ Cuisinier… - Obstetrical & …, 1996 - journals.lww.com
Research studies have shown that various psychological complaints, including substantially
more depressive symptoms, appear in women who have experienced a pregnancy loss in …

Similarities and differences in couples' grief reactions following a miscarriage: Results from a longitudinal study

M Beutel, H Willner, R Deckardt, M Von Rad… - Journal of …, 1996 - Elsevier
Recent studies have documented grief and depressive reactions in women after a
miscarriage. However, the men's reactions to their partner's experience have been …

Grief and depression after miscarriage: their separation, antecedents, and course

M Beutel, R Deckardt, M Von Rad… - Psychosomatic …, 1995 - journals.lww.com
Bereavement is a major risk factor for physical illness, grief, depression, and anxiety. In
contrast to recent tendencies in the psychiatric literature to equate grief and depression, we …

Effects of caring, measurement, and time on miscarriage impact and women's well-being

KM Swanson - Nursing research, 1999 - journals.lww.com
Background: Responses to miscarriage range from relief to devastation, yet there have been
no randomized controlled studies that demonstrate significant effects of counseling with …

The mental health impact of stillbirth, neonatal death or SIDS: prevalence and patterns of distress among mothers

FM Boyle, JC Vance, JM Najman, MJ Thearle - Social science & medicine, 1996 - Elsevier
Although stressful events have long been implicated in the onset of psychological disorder,
available data suggest that the majority of individuals appear to escape serious impairment …

The psychological sequelae of miscarriage: a critical review of the literature

M Frost, JT Condon - Australian and New Zealand Journal of …, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
Miscarriage, although a common event in pregnancy, has been frequently overlooked in
psychological research. This paper reviews the literature on the psychological sequelae of …

Mothers' experience of their contact with their stillborn infant: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

K Ryninks, C Roberts-Collins… - BMC pregnancy and …, 2014 - Springer
Background Guidelines surrounding maternal contact with the stillborn infant have been
contradictory over the past thirty years. Most studies have reported that seeing and holding …