ArticleIllness, crises, and loss2023
The Many Faces of Grief: A Systematic Literature Review of Grief During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- LGBTQ+ Loss and Grief in a Cis-Heteronormative Pandemic: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis of the COVID-19 Literature.Qualitative health research · 2022Pooled it
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- Mental Health After COVID-19 Death-Related Loss in Individuals With Eating Disorders: A Multi-Country Nested Matched Case-Control Study.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Grief in Children in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Meaning-Centred Coping Predicted Lower Depressive Symptoms among Caregivers with Complicated Grief.The Malaysian journal of medical sciences : MJMS · 2024Article
- Developing a best-practice agenda for music therapy research to support informal carers of terminally ill patients pre- and post-death bereavement: a world café approach.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Psychological distress among Brazilian workers during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic: a descriptive study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Factors Associated with Post-Traumatic Growth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- The Emotional Experience of Mexican Women with SARS-CoV-2 during Pregnancy-A Qualitative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- "Hard to Say Goodbye Over iPad": Experiences of Palliative Care Providers and Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Rural Communities of Indiana, United States.Journal of hospice and palliative nursing : JHPN : the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association · 2022Article
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Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has halted life all around the world. The disease, along with quarantine, social distancing, unemployment, and displacement, has led to myriad losses. There is a rising concern for the epidemic of grief that can result from these multiple losses. The present study aimed to investigate how grief is understood and discussed in the extant literature during the COVID pandemic. A systematic literature review was conducted using PsycArticles, Web of Science, and Scopus databases. The qualitative synthesis of 33 articles indicates that grief can be manifested at various levels such as grief for self, relational grief, collective grief, and ecological grief. Another theme emphasizes some of the factors that could intensify the grief process leading to prolonged grief disorder. A third theme relates to the focus of grief processes as experienced by individuals in different developmental periods from childhood to senescence. The study contributes theoretically by expanding our perception and understanding of varied forms of grief.
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