Anticipatory Grief

Shore, Julia Carl; Gelber, Marianne Wientzen; Koch, Lauren M.; Sower, Emily

doi:10.1097/njh.0000000000000208

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“…The impact of COVID-19 would be best understood through a lens of grief (Shore et al, 2016). Anticipatory grief is the mourning that occurs for a patient or family when death is expected.…”

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confidence: 99%

Predictors of psychological distress among the public in Oman amid coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a cross-sectional analytical study

Sinawi

Balushi

Al-Mahrouqi

et al. 2020

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global, virulent pandemic disease that emerged in December 2019, with both short-and longterm psychological repercussions being inevitable. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and predictors of psychological distress, defined by the presence of either depression or anxiety, among the public in Oman during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a web-based, cross-sectional study conducted using governmental and private institutional e-mail systems and social media platforms. Anxiety and depression were assessed using both the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 Scale and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9. Logistic regression analysis was used to assess the independent predictors. There were a total of 1538 participants in this study (75% female). The prevalence of psychological distress was 30%. Being female, having financial instability, being treated for mental illness and self-medication for coping with stress were independent predictors of psychological distress among the study sample (Odds ratio [OR] = 1.69, confidence interval [CI] = 1.24-2.29; OR = 2.05, CI = 1.54-2.74; OR = 5.35, CI = 3.50-8.18; OR = 7.23, CI = 3.06-17.09, respectively). The results from this study will help public health officials in Oman to plan for and mitigate psychological repercussions of the current and future pandemics.

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“…The impact of COVID-19 would be best understood through a lens of grief (Shore et al, 2016). Anticipatory grief is the mourning that occurs for a patient or family when death is expected.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Predictors of psychological distress among the public in Oman amid coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a cross-sectional analytical study

Sinawi

Balushi

Al-Mahrouqi

et al. 2020

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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“…Grief can be complex and individualized, and as such a multi‐faceted approach may be most useful (Wallace et al, 2020 ). For example, organizations could provide direct access to a mental health worker (Shore et al, 2016 ; Wallace et al, 2020 ) via a hospital code (e.g. ‘Code Lavender’) which could deploy a chaplain or other mental health support team member to an area of the hospital to provide listening sessions and comfort supplies for acute distress (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

Pandemic perspectives from the frontline—The nursing stories

Polinard

Ricks

Duke

et al. 2022

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aim: To describe the experiences of registered nurses working in a US healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design: This qualitative thematic analysis study is a secondary analysis of stories submitted by nurses to a repository established by the parent study. Methods: Registered nurses working in various roles in a healthcare system submitted stories (N = 45) to open-ended prompts via an online repository between June 2020 and February 2021. A team of three nurse scientists coded the stories using Dedoose software. Initial codes were then reviewed by the team to synthesize initial coding into themes. The COREQ checklist was used to ensure research reporting guidelines were met. Results: Thematic analysis revealed three themes in a global theme of COVID-19 pandemic-related personal and professional evolution: (1) The art and science of pandemic nursing, (2) Persisting despite challenges; and (3) Learning as we went. Each of the three organizing themes were supported by basic themes.Conclusions: Identified themes affirm some of nursing's long-standing core values, such as the central role of human connectedness in restoring health, but findings also reflect new evolutionary processes of moral identity formation that occurred among nurses and the nursing profession during the COVID-19 pandemic.Impact: Findings from this study describe the processes by which nurses' moral identity evolved during a segment of the COVID-19 pandemic. Collectively, these evolutions represent important shifts in the nursing profession. Using findings from this study, nurse educators, nurse managers and healthcare administrators will be able to implement effective, sustainable policies and processes that meet the needs of both the community and the workforce.No Patient or Public Contribution: This study was designed to capture the experiences of nurses employed by one healthcare organization. However, it was not conducted using input or suggestions from the public or the patient population served by the organization.

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“…Even though the participants of this study had their children with them, they experienced anticipatory grief as they realized that their children were dying and possibly close to death. Anticipatory grief refers to an emotional response which occurs before a true loss (Shore, Gelber, Koch, & Shower, 2016), often expressed as anxiety, sadness, denial, guilt, and desperation (Garand et al, 2012). Experiencing anticipatory grief informs health care providers to treat parents of children with chronic diseases as bereaved persons needing support.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%