ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2015
Meaning making during parent-physician bereavement meetings after a child's death.
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- From loss to meaning: therapeutic group processes in parental grief after pediatric cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Improving Intensive End-of-Life Care for Infants and Children: A Scoping Review of Intervention Elements.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Loss and Grief in Parents of Children Hospitalized for Congenital Heart Disease.Hospital pediatrics · 2025Article
- Context of a neonatal death affects parental perception of end-of-life care, anxiety and depression in the first year of bereavement.BMC palliative care · 2023Observational
- Grief, Stress, Trauma, and Support During the Organ Donation Process.Transplantation direct · 2020Article
- "You helped me keep my head above water"-experience of bereavement research after loss of a loved one in the ICU: insights from the ARREVE study.Intensive care medicine · 2019Article
- Meaning Making and Religious Engagement Among Survivors of Childhood Brain Tumors and Their Caregivers.Oncology nursing forum · 2019Article
- Observed Trauma in the PICU and Parental Meaning Making.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2016Article
- Language Analysis as a Window to Bereaved Parents' Emotions During a Parent-Physician Bereavement Meeting.Journal of language and social psychology · 2015Article
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objectiveOur goal was to identify and describe types of meaning-making processes that occur among parents during bereavement meetings with their child's intensive care physician after their child's death in a pediatric intensive care unit.
methodsFifty-three parents of 35 deceased children participated in a bereavement meeting with their child's physician 14.5 ± 6.3 weeks after the child's death. One meeting was conducted per family. Meetings were video recorded and transcribed verbatim. Using a directed content analysis, an interdisciplinary team analyzed the transcripts to identify and describe meaning-making processes that support and extend extant meaning-making theory.
resultsFour major meaning-making processes were identified: (1) sense making, (2) benefit finding, (3) continuing bonds, and (4) identity reconstruction. Sense making refers to seeking biomedical explanations for the death, revisiting parents' prior decisions and roles, and assigning blame. Benefit finding refers to exploring positive consequences of the death, including ways to help others, such as giving feedback to the hospital, making donations, participating in research, volunteering, and contributing to new medical knowledge. Continuing bonds refers to parents' ongoing connection with the deceased child manifested by reminiscing about the child, sharing photographs and discussing personal rituals, linking objects, and community events to honor the child. Identity reconstruction refers to changes in parents' sense of self, including changes in relationships, work, home, and leisure.
conclusionsParent-physician bereavement meetings facilitate several types of meaning-making processes among bereaved parents. Further research should evaluate the extent to which meaning making during bereavement meetings affects parents' health outcomes.
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