Life after Loss: Parent Bereavement and Coping Experiences after Infant Death in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Life after Loss: Parent Bereavement and Coping Experiences after Infant Death in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Currie ER; Christian BJ; Hinds PS; Perna SJ; Robinson C; Day S; Bakitas M; Meneses K

Death Studies

2018

The death of an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a profound and unexpected loss for parents that results in a complex process of coping with bereavement. A descriptive qualitative approach was used to explore parent bereavement and coping experiences after infant death in the NICU. The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement was used as a conceptual framework to help understand how parents cope with grief after infant death. Living with infant death was a process that resulted in major life changes and a process of oscillating among various coping strategies.

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