Perinatal loss and parental bereavement
Abstract
The authors studied 25 middle-class pregnant women and their husbands who had experienced perinatal losses (16 miscarriages, seven stillbirths, and two neonatal deaths) within the previous 2 years. The Perinatal Bereavement Scale was designed to determine whether parents who have experienced a late perinatal loss (stillbirth or neonatal death) display more unresolved grief during a subsequent pregnancy and during the postnatal period than parents who have experienced a miscarriage. A three-factor repeated measures analysis of variance indicated significantly greater grief for the late-loss group, for the mothers, and during the pregnancy preceding the birth of the viable child.
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Quantitative studies comparing grief responses of fathers and mothers after perinatal loss found lower levels of grief intensity in fathers.
“A number of quantitative studies compared the grief responses of fathers and mothers after perinatal loss and found lower levels of grief intensity in the fathers.45-50”
From Complicated grief after perinatal loss (2012) · cites this paper as [48]
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- Authors
- Theut, S. K., Pedersen, F. A., Zaslow, M. J., Cain, R., Rabinovich, B. A., & Morihisa, J. M.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Venue
- American Journal of Psychiatry
- Published
- 1989-05-01
- Volume
- 146
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 635-639
- ISSN
- 0002-953X (ISSN-L)
- 1535-7228
- OpenAlex
- W1644045910
- Cited by
- 124
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Keywords
- perinatal loss, parental bereavement, unresolved grief, miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death, pregnancy after loss, postpartum period, mothers, husbands
- MeSH terms
- Abortion, Spontaneous, Adult, Fathers, Female, Fetal Death, Grief, Humans, Infant Mortality, Infant, Newborn, Male, Mothers, Parents, Personality Inventory, Pregnancy, Psychometrics, Social Class
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