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Assessment of guidelines for good psychosocial practice for parents who havelost an infant through perinatal or postnatal death

Assessment of guidelines for good psychosocial practice for parents who havelost an infant... Recently, guidelines for good psychosocial practice for parents who have lost achild at an obstetric or neonatal ward have been criticised. Members of anational association for parents who had lost an infant (N = 566) reported theiracute bereavement behavior and rituals and filled in standardized questionnairesfor degree of traumatization, symptomatology, and grief. The age of the childwas not associated with any measure of distress. Seeing the dead child andhaving an open coffin were associated with reduced distress, while specificmementoes and the number of mementoes were associated with augmented distress.The gender of the lost and the gender of an eventual new child were alsoassociated with specific changes in distress depending on the age of thedeceased child. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nordic Psychology American Psychological Association

Assessment of guidelines for good psychosocial practice for parents who havelost an infant through perinatal or postnatal death

Nordic Psychology , Volume 58 (4): 16 – Dec 1, 2006

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Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 The authors & Nordic Psychology
ISSN
1901-2276
eISSN
1904-0016
DOI
10.1027/1901-2276.58.4.315
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Abstract

Recently, guidelines for good psychosocial practice for parents who have lost achild at an obstetric or neonatal ward have been criticised. Members of anational association for parents who had lost an infant (N = 566) reported theiracute bereavement behavior and rituals and filled in standardized questionnairesfor degree of traumatization, symptomatology, and grief. The age of the childwas not associated with any measure of distress. Seeing the dead child andhaving an open coffin were associated with reduced distress, while specificmementoes and the number of mementoes were associated with augmented distress.The gender of the lost and the gender of an eventual new child were alsoassociated with specific changes in distress depending on the age of thedeceased child.

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Nordic PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association

Published: Dec 1, 2006

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