Cited by 216Grief, Bereavement, and Mental HealthInfant Development and Preterm CareMaternal and Neonatal Healthcare

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 116 of the 117 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Support for mothers, fathers and families after perinatal death

Open access
Koopmans, Laura, Wilson, Trish, Cacciatore, Joanne, Flenady, Vicki·2013·Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Provision of an empathetic, sensitive, caring environment and strategies to support mothers, fathers and their families experiencing perinatal death are now an accepted part of maternity services in many countries. Interventions such as psychological support or counselling, or both, have been suggested to improve outcomes for parents and families after perinatal death. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effect of any form of intervention (i.e. medical, nursing, midwifery, social work, psychology, counselling or community-based) on parents and families who experience perinatal death. SEARCH METHODS: We searched the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group's Trials Register (28 January 2013) and article bibliographies. SELECTION CRITERIA: Randomised trials of any form of support aimed at encouraging acceptance of loss, bereavement counselling, or specialised psychotherapy or counselling for mothers, fathers and families experiencing perinatal death. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Two review authors independently assessed eligibility of trials. MAIN RESULTS: No trials were included. AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: Primary healthcare interventions and a strong family and social support network are invaluable to parents and families around the time a baby dies. However, due to the lack of high-quality randomised trials conducted in this area, the true benefits of currently existing interventions aimed at providing support for mothers, fathers and families experiencing perinatal death is unclear. Further, the currently available evidence around the potential detrimental effects of some interventions (e.g. seeing and holding a deceased baby) remains inconclusive at this point in time. However, some well-designed descriptive studies have shown that, under the right circumstances and guided by compassionate, sensitive, experienced staff, parents' experiences of seeing and holding their deceased baby is often very positive. The sensitive nature of this topic and small sample sizes, make it difficult to develop rigorous clinical trials. Hence, other research designs may further inform practice in this area. Where justified, methodologically rigorous trials are needed. However, methodologically rigorous trials should be considered comparing different approaches to support.

Overview

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1002/14651858.cd000452.pub3

Cites

116 of 116 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Verification

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Citations

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Show all 117 references

1 of the 117 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Research works printed but not linked: 6

  1. Fish, 1986, Differences in grief intensity in bereaved parents
  2. Forrest, 1989, Care of the bereaved after perinatal death, 1423
  3. Stillbirth series Lancet. Available from www.thelancet.com/series/stillbirth 2011
  4. Mashegoane, 1999, Stillbirth grief in hospital settings: assessing the intervention practices of professional helpers, 374
  5. The Nordic Cochrane Centre, The Cochrane Collaboration Review Manager (RevMan) 2012
  6. Stroebe, 2008, Handbook of Bereavement Research and Practice

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Items 101–200 of 214

Metadata

Authors
Koopmans, L., Wilson, T., Cacciatore, J., & Flenady, V.
Affiliations
  • Mater Health Services (AU)
  • Mater Mothers' Hospital (AU)
  • Arizona State University (US)
Venue
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2013-06-19
Volume
2013
Issue
6
Pages
CD000452-CD000452
ISSN
  • 1361-6137 (ISSN-L)
  • 1465-1858
OpenAlex
W1902716212
Cited by
216
References
117
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 3
FWCI
2.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute for Health and Care Research (10/4001/02, SRP/10/4001/02)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
Keywords
perinatal death, parental bereavement, psychological support, counseling, psychotherapy, family support, acceptance of loss, obstetric care, social support networks
MeSH terms
Bereavement, Counseling, Death, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Life Change Events, Nuclear Family, Social Support

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review