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Cited by 46Grief, Bereavement, and Mental HealthDeath, Funerary Practices, and MourningGlobal Maternal and Child Health

Fathers experiencing a perinatal loss

Hughes, Cynthia Bach, Page-lieberman, Judith·1989·Death Studies
DOI 10.1080/07481188908252331
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Fifty-one fathers in the New Jersey-Pennsylvania area who experienced a perinatal loss were interviewed in their homes for 1 to 3 hours for the purpose of describing the nature, intensity, and duration of the bereavement experience. The interviews took place 6 months to 2 years after the loss of an infant. Two tools were used to collect the data: an author-developed interview schedule and the Grief Experience Inventory by Catherine Sanders et al. The interview data were analyzed using content analysis. Grief Experience Inventory profiles were computed on each father from the conversion of raw scores to t scores. A t test was used to compare the bereaved-father sample with the published normative sample. The fathers' experiences of perinatal loss were described qualitatively through the organizing categories of pregnancy health, closeness, death event, preventability of death, feelings of sadness and shock, anger, guilt, differences between men and women in grieving, physician and nurse relationships, relationships with extended family members, effect on work performance and on the marital relationship, and duration of the grief. In summary, more fathers described themselves as attached but not as attached as their wives to the baby, they perceived the death as not preventable or had mixed feelings regarding its preventability, their feelings of grief were described as sad but not as overwhelming or intensely debilitating grief, and for the majority the duration of their inten…

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Authors
Hughes, C. B., & Page-lieberman, J.
Affiliations
  • Seton Hall University (US)
  • William Paterson University (US)
Venue
Death Studies
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
1989-11
Volume
13
Issue
6
Pages
537-556
ISSN
  • 0748-1187 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-7683
DOI
10.1080/07481188908252331
OpenAlex
W2044017791
Cited by
46
References
25
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2012: 2
FWCI
0.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Death Studies (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Global Maternal and Child Health
Keywords
perinatal loss, infant death, grief experience, fathers, grief intensity, guilt, marital relationships

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