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This study explores how medical and nursing students' personal bereavement experiences influence anticipated professional bereavement reactions and the mediating role of death attitudes. An online cross sectional survey was conducted with 405 medical and nursing students from Mainland China. Data included basic demographics, personal bereavement experiences within the past 2 years, death attitudes, and anticipated short-term professional bereavement reactions (anticipated SBR). Comparisons were made between students with and without bereaved experiences, and mediation pathways of "bereavement experience-death attitude-anticipated SBR" were analyzed. Students with personal bereavement scored significantly higher on overall anticipated SBR and its factors (frustration & trauma, guilt, grief, and moved). Approach acceptance partially mediated the relationship between bereavement and overall SBR, specifically influencing guilt and grief but not frustration & trauma or moved. Previous grief experiences impact anticipations about subsequent ones across different types of loss. Personal loss experiences within the past 2 years influence medical and nursing students' anticipated professional bereavement reactions by shaping death attitudes, and approach acceptance specifically mediates the relationship with expected guilt and grief.
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