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Bereavement Follow‐Up After the Death of a Child as a Standard of Care in Pediatric Oncology

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Lichtenthal, Wendy G., Sweeney, Corinne R., Roberts, Kailey E., Corner, Geoffrey W., Donovan, Leigh A., Prigerson, Holly G., Wiener, Lori·2015·Pediatric Blood & Cancer
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After a child's death to cancer, families commonly want continued connection with the healthcare team that cared for their child, yet bereavement follow‐up is often sporadic. A comprehensive literature search found that many bereaved parents experience poor psychological outcomes during bereavement and that parents want follow‐up and benefit from continued connection with their child's healthcare providers. Evidence suggests that the standard of care should consist of at least one meaningful contact between the healthcare team and bereaved parents to identify those at risk for negative psychosocial sequelae and to provide resources for bereavement support. Pediatr Blood Cancer © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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  • Research focusing on grief in the area of rare and undiagnosed conditions is sparse compared with grief related to death in pediatric cancer patients.

    “Whereas much is known about grief related to death in pediatric cancer patients, research focusing on grief in the area of rare and undiagnosed conditions is sparse.”

    From "I don't grieve as much as I used to": A qualitative study on parents of children with rare and undiagnosed conditions navigating grief in the context of uncertainty. (2025) · cites this paper as Lichtenthal et al., 2015

    The Results section (“Bereavement Outcomes and Associated Factors”; page unavailable) summarizes several studies of grief after a child’s death from cancer, supporting the statement that this grief has been studied. The paper does not assess grief research on rare or undiagnosed conditions or compare the size of the two literatures; its Methods section (page unavailable) says studies focused exclusively on diseases other than cancer were excluded. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Lichtenthal, W. G., Sweeney, C. R., Roberts, K. E., Corner, G. W., Donovan, L. A., Prigerson, H. G., & Wiener, L.
Affiliations
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
  • University of Southern California (US)
  • UNSW Sydney (AU)
  • Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author
Lichtenthal, Wendy G.
ORCID
Venue
Pediatric Blood & Cancer
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2015-12
Volume
62
Issue
S5
Pages
S834-69
ISSN
  • 1545-5009 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-5017
DOI
10.1002/pbc.25700
PMC
PMC4692196
OpenAlex
W2211728378
Cited by
143
References
108
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FWCI
1.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 22 d)
Locations
  • Pediatric Blood & Cancer (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Cancer Institute (NCI) (K07 CA172216, T32 CA009461)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative and Oncologic Care
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
Keywords
bereavement follow-up, death of a child, childhood cancer, bereaved parents, psychosocial outcomes, standard of care, bereavement support, parent-physician relationship, psychosocial sequelae
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Child, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Medical Oncology, Parents, Patient Care Team, Pediatrics, Hospice Care, Standard of Care

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