ReviewPediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies2018
Caring for Parents After the Death of a Child.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of Methods Used by Pediatric Cost-Utility Analyses to Include Family Spillover Effects.PharmacoEconomics · 2024Pooled it
- When a child dies: a systematic review of well-defined parent-focused bereavement interventions and their alignment with grief- and loss theories.BMC palliative care · 2020Pooled it
- Bereavement Groups for Parents Who Have Lost a Child: A Qualitative Study of Parental Experiences in a Danish Context.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2026Article
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- Bereaved parents' perspectives of factors influencing decision-making about place of end-of-life care for children with life-limiting, life-threatening conditions: an all-Ireland qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Perinatal bereavement rooms: a narrative review of physical space in perinatal grief.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2025Review
- Resilience among parents whose child died of cancer - investigating its role on psychological distress and prolonged grief disorder: results from a cross-sectional survey in Switzerland.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Grief and Bereavement in Pediatric Palliative Care #502.Journal of palliative medicine · 2025Article
- Religious Coping Strategies of Mothers Who Lost Their Children to Cancer in Türkiye: A Qualitative Study.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Healing Through Support: Beneficial and Detrimental Practices in Parental Grief-A Qualitative Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Reciprocal regulation in social support interactions between bereaved parents and their potential supporters: a qualitative study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Pediatric Perspectives on Palliative Care in the Neurocritical Care Unit.Neurocritical care · 2024Review
- Parents' experiences of family and daily life after their child's stay in the pediatric intensive care unit: a qualitative descriptive study.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Improved pediatric ICU mortality prediction for respiratory diseases: machine learning and data subdivision insights.Respiratory research · 2024Article
- Associations between parental depression, communication, and self-worth of siblings bereaved by cancer.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Article
- 'Nobody comes to help us': lived experiences and needs of older adults who lost their only child in China.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2023Article
- The certainty of parental love vs. the uncertainty of a "best" decision.Intensive care medicine · 2023Article
- Characterizing the Language Used to Discuss Death in Family Meetings for Critically Ill Infants.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Association of Illness Severity With Family Outcomes Following Pediatric Septic Shock.Critical care explorations · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo describe the health outcomes of bereaved parents and identify practical strategies for critical care providers as they support and provide anticipatory guidance to bereaved parents. DATA SOURCES: PubMed and PsycInfo databases with search terms of bereavement, grief, with parent and pediatric or child complimented by personal experience and knowledge. STUDY SELECTION: We sought studies describing parental health outcomes and needs of bereaved parents after the death of their child. DATA SYNTHESIS: A narrative literature review was performed and framed from the perspective of PICU providers who care for bereaved parents. We aimed to describe experiences of grief and short- and long-term consequences and approaches to the care of parents and families in the immediate period and in the months after the death of a child.
conclusionsThe death of a child is a traumatic experience that can put parents at risk for adverse mental and physical health during bereavement. Health professionals working in PICUs can benefit from knowing these risks to best support bereaved parents, both during their child's hospitalization and in the early postdeath period. The bereavement experience of parents is an adaptive process, and ongoing professional support may be required for vulnerable families. After the child's hospitalization and death, a bereavement follow-up meeting with PICU physician(s) and staff may allow parents to gain additional information, emotional support, and provide an opportunity for parents to give feedback on their experiences.
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