{"title":"Patients Receiving Palliative Care and Their Experiences of Encounters With Healthcare Professionals.","authors":"Haavisto Elina, Eriksson Sofia, Cleland Silva Tricia, Koivisto Jaana-Maija, Kausamo Katariina, Soikkeli-Jalonen Anu","doi":"10.1177/00302228221077486","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228221077486","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study aimed to explore experiences of encounters with health care professionals among patients receiving palliative cancer care in specialist palliative care inpatient units. A qualitative explorative study design was conducted in a specialist palliative care inpatient setting. Data collection was implemented using semi-structured individual interviews (20 palliative care cancer patients) and analysed with inductive content analysis. Palliative care patients experienced both meaningful and disrespectful encounters with healthcare professionals. The meaningful encounters encompassed authentic and supportive experiences, while the disrespectful encounters included indifferent and inadequate experiences. Caring for a patient receiving palliative care requires care beyond tending to a patient's physical needs. Patients should be encountered holistically and as equal human beings without highlighting their roles as patients. The healthcare professionals and the organisations should also acknowledge the importance of time and effort spent for encounters and conversations with the patients instead of concentrating resources mainly on physical care.</p>","PeriodicalId":47794,"journal":{"name":"Omega-Journal of Death and Dying","volume":"1 1","pages":"497-513"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11100268/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46069603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hong Yang, Zhanying Wang, Wenhua Yu, Youhui Gu, Jinxing Shao, Yaru Zhang, Xiaoting Hou, Dongqin Kang, Yuhan Lu
{"title":"Structural Equation Model of Factors Related to Death Anxiety for Chinese Patients with Cancer.","authors":"Hong Yang, Zhanying Wang, Wenhua Yu, Youhui Gu, Jinxing Shao, Yaru Zhang, Xiaoting Hou, Dongqin Kang, Yuhan Lu","doi":"10.1177/00302228221078349","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228221078349","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to develop a model that specifies the predictive effects of factors on death anxiety among Chinese patients with cancer using structural equation modeling. Using convenience sampling, data were collected from 353 cancer patients. Self-administered questionnaires included Social Support Rating Scale, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Connor Davidson Resilience Scale, Templer's Death Anxiety Scale, and socio-demographic factors. The results showed that social support, self-esteem, and resilience significantly impacted death anxiety. The final model fitted the data acceptably (χ<sup>2</sup> = 37.319, df =31, <i>p</i> = 0.201). Social support mediated death anxiety through self-esteem and resilience. Resilience mediated the buffer effect of self-esteem on death anxiety as an intermediary factor. Findings suggest the need for further studies to explore effective interventions to provide social support and improve self-esteem and resilience among patients with cancer to alleviate death anxiety.</p>","PeriodicalId":47794,"journal":{"name":"Omega-Journal of Death and Dying","volume":"1 1","pages":"606-622"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42461165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Ritual Mourning to Solitary Grief: Reinterpretation of Hindu Death Rituals in India.","authors":"Banhishikha Ghosh, Athira Bk","doi":"10.1177/00302228221085175","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228221085175","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper considers the way the outbreak of coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown has egregiously impeded the Hindu death ceremonies and mourning rituals in India. It makes a comparative analysis of how Hindu death rituals get renegotiated, modified and reinterpreted across two vastly different regions of India, both of which have their local customs. Whilst death rituals in India are contingent on the deceased's caste, community, class, gender and age, the impediment to the major death rituals creates a central conundrum for all mourners. It results from the substitution of 'sacred' ritual guidelines with new 'profane' ones for the 'disposal' of deceased COVID-19 patients. Departure from many significant pre-liminal rites, specific transition rites, and post-liminal rites has eschatological, ritual and cultural ramifications. The inability to grieve in unison during a Shraddh ceremony denies mourners any scope to quell distressing feelings about mortality which serves as a source of consolation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47794,"journal":{"name":"Omega-Journal of Death and Dying","volume":"1 1","pages":"759-776"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11100263/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48513012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalie Figueredo-Borda, Mirliana Ramírez-Pereira, Pedro Gaudiano, Cecilia Cracco, Beatriz Ramos
{"title":"Experiences of miscarriage: the voice of parents and health professionals.","authors":"Natalie Figueredo-Borda, Mirliana Ramírez-Pereira, Pedro Gaudiano, Cecilia Cracco, Beatriz Ramos","doi":"10.1177/00302228221085188","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228221085188","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The death of a child in the intrauterine stage has legal, psychological, spiritual, and health-related connotations that condition the woman's experience. To understand better the processes set in motion around early pregnancy loss, this ethnographic study explores the experiences of miscarriage in a group of 15 women. The following themes are analyzed: Experience of losing the child, spirituality, health care, and the need to physically recognize the child. The study shows that the need women have to honor the child who did not live may be conditioned by the perception of an uncertain loss and by the absence of a place to honor him/her. Attitudes among professionals are revealed that could be perceived as gender-related abuse. The care of women places emphasis on physical aspects, underlining the lack of comprehensive care during the grieving process.</p>","PeriodicalId":47794,"journal":{"name":"Omega-Journal of Death and Dying","volume":"1 1","pages":"777-794"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42343260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrew F A Arena, Carolyn MacCann, Sam G Moreton, Rachel E Menzies, Niko Tiliopoulos
{"title":"Living Authentically in the Face of Death: Predictors of Autonomous Motivation Among Individuals Exposed to Chronic Mortality Cues Compared to a Matched Community Sample.","authors":"Andrew F A Arena, Carolyn MacCann, Sam G Moreton, Rachel E Menzies, Niko Tiliopoulos","doi":"10.1177/00302228221074160","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228221074160","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite research demonstrating positive outcomes of conscious death reflection, very little research directly examines a core proposition of existential psychologists-that death reflection provides an opportunity for more authentic living. The current study compared individuals chronically exposed to genuine mortality cues (funeral/cemetery workers, <i>n</i> = 107) to a matched control sample (<i>n</i> = 121) on autonomous motivation. It also assessed the moderating role of six constructs implicated in growth-oriented processing of death reflection: psychological flexibility, curiosity, neutral death acceptance, death anxiety, approach-oriented coping, and avoidant coping. Funeral/cemetery workers were significantly higher on autonomous motivation, and death-related work was found to have a more positive association with autonomous motivation for those higher on flexibility and lower on death anxiety. This has implications for both understanding which individuals are most likely to experience growth motivations when confronting death, and potential avenues for facilitating these motivations to enhance well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":47794,"journal":{"name":"Omega-Journal of Death and Dying","volume":"1 1","pages":"379-403"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48036285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suicide Attitudes Among Suicide Loss Survivors and Their Adaptation to Loss: A Cross-Cultural Study in Japan and the United States.","authors":"Daisuke Kawashima, Shizuka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shiraga, Athena Kheibari, Julie Cerel, Kenji Kawano","doi":"10.1177/00302228211051512","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00302228211051512","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Survivors' adaptation to a suicide loss is likely influenced by their attitudes toward suicide and their respective sociocultural contexts. Our study aimed to compare suicide attitudes and their association with depressive symptoms and sense of community safety in Japanese and American suicide loss survivors. A total of 193 Japanese survivors and 232 American survivors completed online surveys. The results show that Japanese survivors tended not to consider suicide as an illness or to recognize that others understood their experience but were more likely than American survivors to consider suicide as justifiable. Regression analyses indicated that taking suicide as a right was associated with depressive symptoms. Further, their sense of being understood by others was positively correlated with perceived community safety in both samples, but justifying suicide and considering it to be an illness was positively related to perceived community safety only among Japanese survivors.</p>","PeriodicalId":47794,"journal":{"name":"Omega-Journal of Death and Dying","volume":"1 1","pages":"1258-1274"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47073565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Boss, Pauline. The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change","authors":"Paul A. Metzler","doi":"10.1177/00302228231204458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228231204458","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47794,"journal":{"name":"Omega-Journal of Death and Dying","volume":"351 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135779090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Superhero Grief: The Transformative Power of Loss","authors":"Michelle Bronzo","doi":"10.1177/00302228211045259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228211045259","url":null,"abstract":"Superhero Grief: The Transformative Power of Loss , a collection of brief articles edited by Jill A. Harrington and Robert A. Neimeyer, integrates popular culture into the thanatology field in a novel, spirited, and relatable way. “The superhero has arisen as one of the most enduring, popular, and influential narratives of modern storytelling” (p. xviii)","PeriodicalId":47794,"journal":{"name":"Omega-Journal of Death and Dying","volume":"34 1","pages":"1374 - 1379"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87959727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A generalized data envelopment analysis approach for allocating fixed cost with preference information","authors":"Jiawei Yang, Dan Li, Yongjun Li","doi":"10.1016/j.omega.2023.102948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2023.102948","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47794,"journal":{"name":"Omega-Journal of Death and Dying","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45274149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Being Dead Otherwise","authors":"D. Klass, A. Allison","doi":"10.1177/00302228231190503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228231190503","url":null,"abstract":"B. F. J., Hofman, A., Vernooij, M., & Tiemeier, H. (2015). Cognition, structural brain changes and complicated grief: A population-based study. Psychological Medicine, 45(7), 1389–1399. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291714002499. Saavedra Pérez, H. C. S., Ikram, M. A., Direk, N., & Tiemeier, H. (2018). Prolonged grief and cognitive decline: A prospective population-based study in middle-aged and older persons. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 26(4), 451–460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. jagp2017.12.003. Seager, S. (2020). The smallest lights in the universe. Doubleday Canada.","PeriodicalId":47794,"journal":{"name":"Omega-Journal of Death and Dying","volume":"36 1","pages":"367 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89206390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}