ArticleBMC medical education2014
General Practitioners' experiences of bereavement care and their educational support needs: a qualitative study.
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- Specialist and Primary Physicians' Experiences and Perspectives of Collaboration While Caring for Palliative Patients-A Qualitative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- An educational bereavement program to decrease clinical staff's barriers and improve self-efficacy of providing bereavement care.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022Article
- A case of grief: SAPC prize winner.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2021Article
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- 'A silent epidemic of grief': a survey of bereavement care provision in the UK and Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Being there: protocol for a scoping review of the medical education literature on grief support training for medical professionals.BMJ open · 2019Article
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- Primary Care for the Elderly Bereaved: Recommendations for Medical Education.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2018Article
- What sources of bereavement support are perceived helpful by bereaved people and why? Empirical evidence for the compassionate communities approach.Palliative medicine · 2018Article
- Exploring barriers to assessment of bereavement risk in palliative care: perspectives of key stakeholders.BMC palliative care · 2015Article
- Conducting research interviews with bereaved family carers: when do we ask?Journal of palliative medicine · 2015Article
- Primary care providers' bereavement care practices: recommendations for research directions.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2014Review
- Using Social Constructivist Learning Theory to Unpack General Practitioners' Learning Preferences of End-of-Life Care: A Systematically Constructed Narrative Review.Indian journal of palliative careReview
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Abstract
backgroundGeneral Practitioners (GPs) are well-positioned to provide grief support to patients. Most GPs view the provision of bereavement care as an important aspect of their role and the GP is the health professional that many people turn to when they need support. We aimed to explore GPs' understandings of bereavement care and their education and professional development needs in relation to bereavement care.
methodsAn in-depth qualitative design was adopted using a social constructionist approach as our aims were exploratory and applied. Nineteen GPs (12 women and 7 men) living in Western Australia were interviewed; 14 were based in metropolitan Perth and 5 in rural areas. GPs were invited, via a letter, to participate in a semi-structured interview. The interviews occurred within each GP's workplace or, for the rural GPs, via telephone, and all interviews were digitally audio-recorded and transcribed.
resultsAnalysis was based upon constant comparison and began as soon as possible after each interview. The data revealed four tensions or opposing views concerning bereavement and bereavement care. These were (1) whether grief is a standardised versus an individual process, (2) the role of the GP in intervening versus promoting resilience, (3) the GP as a broker of services versus a service provider, and (4) the need for formal education and professional development versus 'on-the-job' experiential learning.
conclusionsGPs have a critical role in exploring distress, including grief. However, changes need to be made to ensure GPs have up-to-date knowledge of contemporary theories and approaches. GPs urgently need education both at the undergraduate and postgraduate degree levels, and in continuing professional development. Otherwise GPs will rely on out-dated theories and constructions of grief, which may be detrimental to patient care.
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