There is growing recognition that current methodology to understand complex interventions
in health-care often falls short of comprehensively explaining the interventions. Health-care …

Background Grieving is an adaptive process in the face of the death of somebody close.
Children grieve the loss of a family member or friend and need support from their caregivers …

Beliefs can be described as the lenses through which we view the world. With emerging
illness, beliefs about the illness experience become important for nurses to understand to …

Background Caring for bereaved families is an important aspect of the nursing role in critical
care. Memory making practices are one way in which dying, death and bereavement can be …

Objectives To investigate family and health professional experience with a nurse-led family
support intervention in intensive care. Design Qualitative evaluation study. Setting A twelve …

The illness suffering of families in childhood cancer is characterized in part by a loss of
family normalcy. Hermeneutic phenomenology and family process research methods were …

The organ donation process is complex and stressful for the family of the potential donor and
members of the multidisciplinary team who may experience grief, ethical dilemmas …

The purpose of this pilot study was to design, implement, and evaluate a Family
Empowerment Program (FEP), guided by the Illness Beliefs Model. Participants included 25 …

Imagine this. You are a nurse and you are sitting in a room with several family members,
including the family member who is being cared for in your health care facility or community …

A concepção social de morte é resultado de um longo processo histórico, marcado por
diferentes sistemas econômicos e sociais, bem como por costumes que envolvem …