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Omega Pub Date : 2026-07-11 DOI: 10.1177/00302228261469446

Hege Sofie Follestad, Trine Giving Kalstad, Line Christoffersen, Anita Berg

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Reflections in the Shadow of Death: Values, Relationships, and the Search for the Meaning in the End-of-Life Care. 死亡阴影下的反思：临终关怀中的价值、关系和意义的探索。

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Omega Pub Date : 2026-07-06 DOI: 10.1177/00302228261467102

Krzysztof Sobczak, Katarzyna Nowicka-Sauer, Maria Wysocka, Anna Orlowska, Adam Falewicz, Weronika Kaminska-Skrzynska

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"How Is a Person Honored when They're Shut Inside a Sack?": The Experiences of Grief and Funerary Practices in Greece During the COVID-19 Pandemic. “当一个人被关在麻袋里时，他怎么能得到尊重？”： 2019冠状病毒病大流行期间希腊的悲伤和丧葬习俗。

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Omega Pub Date : 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/00302228261465518

Charalampos Risvas, Anastasia Riza, Lissy Canellopoulos, Flora Koliouli, Matroni Tzatzadaki, Evangelia Markopoulou, Konstantina Potea, Marilena Alifragki, Menia Botopoulou, Myrto Maragoudaki, Konstantina Chondrogianni, Antonios Poulios, Christina Alexopoulos de Girard, Sofia Kleisari, Eleftheria Sourba, Danai Stamati, Eva Stefanakou, Marie-Frédérique Bacqué

{"title":"\"How Is a Person Honored when They're Shut Inside a Sack?\": The Experiences of Grief and Funerary Practices in Greece During the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Charalampos Risvas, Anastasia Riza, Lissy Canellopoulos, Flora Koliouli, Matroni Tzatzadaki, Evangelia Markopoulou, Konstantina Potea, Marilena Alifragki, Menia Botopoulou, Myrto Maragoudaki, Konstantina Chondrogianni, Antonios Poulios, Christina Alexopoulos de Girard, Sofia Kleisari, Eleftheria Sourba, Danai Stamati, Eva Stefanakou, Marie-Frédérique Bacqué","doi":"10.1177/00302228261465518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228261465518","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research is to explore how bereaved adults in Greece experienced pandemic-related disruptions to funerary bodily care and rituals, and how these impediments shaped their mourning. Thirteen adults who lost a loved one between May 2020 and June 2021 participated in semi-structured interviews, and the data were subjected to Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA). The participants described their experiences of health restrictions, their psycho-emotional reactions to the loss, underscoring aggravating and protective factors during mourning. The prohibition of taking care of the deceased person's body was experienced by some as a rupture, contributing to a sense of unfinished business, and highlighting the crucial importance of the body in honoring the dead. Nevertheless, some participants described private, relational, and spiritual efforts to honor their dead and restore meaning. These findings are discussed as a culturally positioned account of ritual disruptions within the Greek cultural context, having implications for grief support and public-health responses in cases of sanitary crises.","PeriodicalId":74338,"journal":{"name":"Omega","volume":" ","pages":"302228261465518"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148364686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dying With Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Bibliometric Review of End-of-Life and Palliative Care Literature, 1990-2025. 死于智力和发育障碍：1990-2025年临终和姑息治疗文献的文献计量学回顾。

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Omega Pub Date : 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/00302228261466648

Josephine Myung

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Beyond Bereavement: Toward a Theoretical Framework of Grief-Conscious Communication. 超越丧亲：走向哀伤意识沟通的理论框架。

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Omega Pub Date : 2026-06-28 DOI: 10.1177/00302228261463638

Chinasa Elue

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Healing Strides: The Effectiveness of a Combined Grief Group Counseling and 5K Race Training Intervention on Grief-Related Symptoms. 愈合的步伐：悲伤小组咨询和5公里赛跑训练联合干预悲伤相关症状的有效性。

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Omega Pub Date : 2026-06-28 DOI: 10.1177/00302228261465211

Elizabeth Bradley, Kelly Daugherty, Lisa Millis

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Prolonged Grief, Depression and Loneliness Among Chinese Bereaved College Students: A Latent Class Analysis. 中国丧亲大学生的长期悲伤、抑郁与孤独：一个潜在阶层分析。

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Omega Pub Date : 2026-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/00302228261463043

Lan Yang, Nannan Liu, Leyi Wang, Xin Xu

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From Private Pain to Shared Sorrow: A Process Model of Collective Bereavement. 从个人痛苦到共同悲伤：集体丧亲的过程模型。