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Alexandra General Hospital in Athens: Historical Connections to the Greek Royal Family.

Princess Alexandra of Greece (1870-1891), the eldest daughter of King George I of Greece (1845-1913), was known as the "beloved daughter of the Athenians". Her death at the age of 21 in 1891 due to a pregnancy complication caused nationwide grief. To honour her, the Alexandra Maternity Hospital in Athens was named in her memory. Affiliated with the University of Athens, Alexandra Maternity Hospital researches pregnancy and newborn care, including complications and maternal mortality. Today, the hospital contains various clinical and laboratory departments providing patients with exceptional he…

"I had no right to fall apart": Hope as a performative obligation following an adverse prenatal diagnosis.

PROBLEM: Hope is central to perinatal support, but encouragement may become a demand to appear positive after an adverse prenatal diagnosis. BACKGROUND: Women can hold hope alongside fear and grief. Existing approaches rarely examine what happens when hope becomes socially required, or what its display is expected to prove. AIM: To explain the conditions under which hope becomes a performative obligation for women who continue a pregnancy after an adverse prenatal diagnosis, and its consequences. METHODS: Constructivist grounded theory. Sixteen women in Portugal were interviewed between 202…

Eco-affective one health: A public health framework for climate, emotion, and systemic resilience.

OBJECTIVE: Climate change affects population health not only through physical exposures but also through emotional and psychosocial pathways … earches of PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science using keywords related to climate anxiety, ecological grief, solastalgia, emotional responses to climate change, public health adaptation, and One Health. Approximately 95 peer-reviewed articles, policy reports, and global health assessments were synthesized to identify mechanisms linking emotional responses …

Youth's Coping Dynamics in Responding to Parental Bereavement: A Thematic Synthesis.

This review is intended to synthesize the available qualitative evidence on youths' experiences and perceptions of parental bereavement, developing analytical themes that illuminate both individual grief processes and their embeddedness within relational contexts, thereby advancing theoretical frameworks and informing comprehensive support approaches. Thematic synthesis was adopted for this study and reported following the Enhancing Transparency in Reporting the Synthesis of Qualitative Research (ENTREQ) statement. A systematic search was conducted across four databases from inception to Janua…

"As Long as I Live, My Sweet Boy You'll Be:" Parents' Continuing Bonds in Early Bereavement.

BACKGROUND: Bereaved parents seek ways to maintain connections with their deceased child throughout their lifelong grief. These continuing bonds may bolster parental social functioning, yet limited research has explored continuing bonds early in bereavement. AIMS: To explore how parents maintain connection with their child within the first 2 years following death. METHODS: Parents of children who died from cancer 6-24 months prior completed the 11-item Continuing Bonds Scale (CBS) and an open-ended question querying ongoing connections. CBS scores ranged from 11 to 55, with higher scores ind…

[Evaluation of a family-community workshop on birth and death: impact on parental attitudes].

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a community-based workshop on birth and death, delivered by midwives for children aged 6 to 12 accompanied by one or … ement. Parents completed a questionnaire assessing adult attitudes toward children's involvement in grief processes immediately before and after the workshop (n=143), and again 15 days later (n=54). Post-intervention, participants also completed a workshop evaluation survey. Additionally, five focus groups were conducted. RESULTS: Adults' attitudes shi …

"This is the first time I felt they're mine": the significance of tattoos in coping and identity reconstruction following mastectomy.

BACKGROUND: Breast cancer and subsequent mastectomy result in significant physical and emotional changes, including damaged body image, compromised sense of femininity, diminished self-esteem, and profound experiences of grief and loss. While reconstruction procedures are routinely offered, some women choose artistic mastectomy tattoos as an alternative means of reclaiming their bodies and reconstructing identity. OBJECTIVE: Grounded in the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement, this study explored how women utilize post-mastectomy tattoos as coping mechanisms and meaning-making proce…

Caregiver experiences after the death of a person with dementia with Lewy bodies: A mixed-methods analysis.

BackgroundDementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a common degenerative dementia, but no studies investigate bereaved caregiver experiences.Objec … cating risk for clinical depression. Post-death caregiver experiences (depression, quality of life, grief, resilience) correlated with pre-death caregiver experiences. Post-death experiences did not associate with patient characteristics, disease-related symptoms, or healthcare services used in the last 6 months of life. Trajectories for caregiver measu …

Изучение терапевтической роли видеоконференцсвязи тренера-руководителя с экспресс-конференцией в многоразовом склерозе: качественное исследование.

Справочная информация/цели: Эмоциональные изменения оказывают значительное воздействие на людей с множественным склерозом (PwMS), что часто приводит к негативным психологическим симптомам, включая горе. Эффективное управление этими симптомами может способствовать развитию личности, укрепить доверие и возродить надежду. Хотя экспрессивное письмо продемонстрировало психологические преимущества при обработке травм и хронических заболеваний, его воздействие на PwMS по-прежнему недостаточно изучено. Цель этого исследования заключалась в устранении этого пробела путем изучения опыта ПВМС, которые уч

Совпадение в аннотации оригинала
Background/Objectives: Emotional changes significantly affect people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS), often leading to negative psychological symptoms including grief. Effective management of these symptoms can foster personal growth, increase confidence, and renew hope. While expressive writing has demonstrated psychological benefits in processing trauma and…

Psychosocial Needs of People Living With Pleural Mesothelioma and Family Carers: A Mixed Methods Study.

BACKGROUND: Mesothelioma is a cancer of growing global incidence, especially in developing countries, with unique complex psychosocial impacts on patients and their carers. AIMS: To provide a comprehensive understanding of the psychosocial needs of people living with pleural mesothelioma and family carers. METHODS: A mixed methods design with 61 semi-structured interviews and psychometrically validated questionnaires to assess pleural mesothelioma patients' (n = 36) quality of life and frailty and carers' (n = 25) caregiving experiences, quality of life, and pre-loss prolonged grief symptoms…

Hopelessness for family members of individuals with borderline personality disorder.

Family members and loved ones of individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can experience high levels of distress. Types of distress reported by family members include burden, grief, depression, guilt, and powerlessness. Hopelessness is a construct that has received little attention despite its potential relevance for this group. This study sought to examine, and assess potential change in, hopelessness among individuals attending a 12-week Family Connections (FC) program. Participants were 75 family members, 29 men and 46 women. Most participants were parents (n = 43; 57%). Data …

Parents' mental health after termination of pregnancy for foetal anomaly - a systematic review.

AIMS/BACKGROUND: Terminating a desired pregnancy due to foetal anomalies has been linked to significant distress. It is however less clear w … ded. Results demonstrated variations in symptoms of trauma-related stress, depressive symptoms, and grief reactions across the different studies post-TOPFA. Variations were found to be related to time since TOPFA and the difference in assessment tools used. Factors investigated as predictors of mental health outcomes, including gestational age, educatio …

Associations of religious and existential variables with psychosocial factors and biomarkers of cardiovascular risk in bereavement.

Bereavement increases in prevalence as people age and is associated with multiple psychological and health risks, including cardiovascular r … s and bereavement-relevant health outcomes (self-reported health, change in health since last year, grief severity, and cardiovascular biomarkers). Cardiovascular biomarkers (heart rate, heart rate variability, and blood pressure) were collected before, during, and after a laboratory grief recall emotion elicitation. Anticipated associations between sel …

Comparing posttraumatic growth in mothers after stillbirth or early miscarriage.

The possibility of posttraumatic growth in the aftermath of pregnancy loss has received limited attention to date. This study investigated posttraumatic growth in mothers following stillbirth compared to early miscarriage. It was hypothesised that mothers following stillbirth will demonstrate more posttraumatic growth, challenge to assumptive beliefs, and disclosure than mothers following early miscarriage. The study also sought to understand how theoretically-derived variables of the Model of Growth in Grief (challenge to assumptive beliefs and disclosure) explained unique variance in posttra…

Women's experiences of care and support following perinatal death in high burden countries: A metasynthesis.

PROBLEM: The experiences of women in low and middle-income countries following perinatal death remains difficult and challenging, thereby increasing their susceptibility to negative psychological impact particularly with insufficient bereavement care and support. BACKGROUND: Perinatal death invariably brings intense grief which significantly impacts women, and requires adequate bereavement care to limit negative outcomes in the short and long-term. AIM: To develop deeper understanding of women's experience of care and support following perinatal death in high burden settings. METHODS: Six e…

Defining Palliative Care Needs in Parkinson's Disease.

OBJECTIVES: Palliative care addresses the suffering of patients and families affected by progressive illness through the management of medic … re surveyed regarding potential palliative care needs, including symptom burden, mood, anticipatory grief, and spiritual well-being. PD patients completed additional scales regarding HRQOL, motor symptoms, cognitive impairment, and preferences regarding advance care planning. RESULTS: Potential palliative care needs, including high symptom burden and g …

Addressing Stillbirth in India Must Include Men.

BACKGROUND: Millennium Development Goal 4, to reduce child mortality, can only be achieved by reducing stillbirths globally. A confluence of … and right to medical and reproductive decision making power. Wives were discouraged from expressing grief and pushed to conceive again. If not successful, particularly if a son was not conceived, a second wife was considered a solution. Quantitative data revealed that men with a history of stillbirths had greater anxiety and depression, perceived less s …

"You don't know until you get there": The positive and negative "lived" experience of parenting an adult child with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.

OBJECTIVES: 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS), a complex genetic syndrome associated with more than 180 features, presents complex challen … chological growth. Distress in parenting a child with 22q11DS was experienced through stigma, loss, grief, and guilt. Progressively, stigma undermined independence, friendships, and instinctual judgement. Ill-informed hierarchical structures experienced as layers of obstruction and lack of awareness of the syndrome triggered angry advocacy for their chi …

[The ordeal of perinatal bereavement : what roles for the liaison psychiatrist ?].

Perinatal grief should be given special attention for bereaved parents. In the hospital, multidisciplinary support is provided at different times of care. The loss of a pregnancy or a baby can permanently destabilize the couple's relationship and give rise to psychiatric complications in the presence of risk factors, such as pathological bereavement, a major depressive disorder, an anxiety disorder or a post-traumatic stress disorder. For subsequent pregnancies, there are risks of developing antenatal anxiety, attachment disorder, or parenting disorder. Multidisciplinary support and personaliz…

Holistic approach to community in crisis.

This report emphasizes the belief that whatever the type and scale of disaster, the period of transition from relief to recovery is the most critical. Following the severe earthquake that struck Kachchh, Gurjarat, India on 26 January 2001, emotions spanned grief over the lives lost; anxiety over property and other economic losses; profound feelings of isolation, helplessness, and guilt; and panic in the face of problematic communications from authorities. In an attempt to manage this vast array of psychosocial problems, a large cadre of volunteers was rapidly trained and supervised by experts …