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  • Title: [Psychological coping with stillbirth. Course of grief response, influential factors, treatment satisfaction, patient management needs].
    Author: Kuse-Isingschulte MW, Beutel M, Hahlweg BC, Stauber M, Schneider K.
    Journal: Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd; 1996 Jul; 56(7):380-9. PubMed ID: 8964453.
    Abstract:
    Course of Grief Response, influencing Factors, Satisfaction with treatment, Need for Psychotherapeutic Support: The emotional response to a late miscarriage or a stillbirth was examined retrospectively in a systematic study involving 51 patients. The women had lost a child either by stillbirth (beyond the 20th week of gestation) or shortly after delivery. We assessed the long-term course of possible determinants of grief, a complicated grief response, as well as the patients' satisfaction with the treatment and their need for further psychotherapeutic support. The mourning response was complicated by a depressive reaction in 22%. Major risk factors were individual disposition, lack of partner and professional support. The findings reveal that the course of the grief response is positively influenced by: 1. open discussion (thematisation) with the skilled personnel and the patients' families, 2. direct or indirect contact with the deceased child (concretisation) and 3. the patients concerned being extensively informed as to place and circumstances of the funeral (whereabouts of the child).
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