Death Studies

Article	Citations
Social disabling: A qualitative study of interpersonal interaction patterns of shiduers in China	76
Introduction of the French version of the Multidimensional Orientation Toward Dying and Death Inventory (MODDI-F/fre)	52
Psycholinguistic, Stroop, and self-report measurements of death anxiety: A study of convergent validity	34
Who breaks bad news: Doctors, family caregivers or cancer patients? A qualitative study in Southern China	22
Grief Coach : Feasibility and acceptability of a text message program for bereavement support among grievers in the United Kingdom	19
Aesthetic practices in bereavement	18
A poetry of grief	17
Coping and grief symptoms after parental loss in adolescence - a nationwide follow-up study	17
Supporting palliative patients on their journeyA review of Palliative Treatment for Advanced Cancer Patients: Can Hope Be a Right? by Cynthia Pereirade Araújo. Springer	16
“Who is going to take care of these grandkids if I go?”: End-of-life planning by caregivers in grandparent-headed households	16
Exploring the stigma of suicide in Malaysia: Lived experience perspectives	16
The gift of peer understanding and suicide bereavement support groups: A qualitative study	14
“Mum, when we die, what do you think happens?” A qualitative study of views on death education among Spanish families	14
Correlations between the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide rates and the non-assisted suicide rates at the municipal level in the Netherlands	14
Violence and suicide risk behavior in a nationally representative sample of youth aged 12-17: What does it mean to be at-risk?	14
Mothers’ views on death education for children aged 4–6	14
End-of-life care volunteers’ initial motivational profile and their death anxiety: A latent profile analysis	12
An online grief intervention to improve well-being and reduce clinical symptoms: a randomized controlled trial	12
Community-based death preparation and education: A scoping review	12
Grief, mourning, and the body: Ritual attention to the death of victims of the dictatorship in Chile*	11
Balancing roles: Teaching staff’s dilemma in supporting bereaved college students	11
Frequency of suicidal ideation inventory: A reliability generalization meta-analysis	11
Death attitudes and Chinese college students’ mental health: A latent profile analysis	11
Shared death experience or shared beliefs?	11
The impact of heteropatriarchy and support on grief in sexual minorities: A qualitative study	10

Transforming funeral practices: Rituality and necropower in mass death situations	9
Unity strengthens and inhibits development: A focus group interview with volunteer adults in support programs for bereaved children and their family	9
Factors associated with grief in informal carers of people living with Motor Neuron Disease: A mixed methods systematic review	9
Thoughts and emotions evoked by thinking about own death: American versus Japanese undergraduates	9
Age does matter for hospice care: Health care providers’ attitudes toward hospice care in Binzhou, China	9
The phenomenon of bereavement anniversary reactions: An integrative systematic review	9
Assessing the fear of COVID-19 scale among health care workers in Israel: a psychometric validation study	9
Grief trajectories among bereaved parents after the 2011 Utøya terror attack: A qualitative analysis	8
Survivors’ perspectives on saying goodbye: Implications for end-of-life engagement across the lifespan and grieving process	8
Applying attachment theory to grief therapy through the therapeutic relationship	8
Readiness of a U.S. Black community to address suicide	8
Continuing bonds or ongoing attachments? Exploring the distinction	8
Turkish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire: Validity, reliability and psychometric properties	8
Navigating the edge: A personal account of madness, suicide, and recovery	7
Disembodied ritual: An explorative study on the meanings of physical absence during funerals by bereaved in times of COVID-19	7
Cultural differences on baby loss experiences: A comparison of the US and New Zealand	7
Reflecting on the concept of death: A qualitative investigation of the experiences among early childhood education teachers	7
Applying terror management theory as a framework to understand the impact of heightened mortality salience on children, adolescents, and their parents: A systematic review	7
Windmills and pediatric palliative care	7
Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death	7
Death before birth: An encounter between Prenatal Pedagogy and the Pedagogy of Death	7
Effectiveness of the death education in Chinese nurses: A mixed method study	7
I occasionally wear his huge sweaters… but I often prefer not to think about it: Bereaved children talking and not talking about parental loss	7
Psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) in Brazil	7
To ventilate or not to ventilate: A qualitative analysis of physicians’ experience during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
How to prevent suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury? An analysis of adolescent typologies	7
Navigating mortality: A multidisciplinary approach to the epistemology and practice of death education	7
Parents’ lived experience of support through their neonate’s end of life and grief journey: An interpretative phenomenology study	6
Ecological momentary assessment in prolonged grief research: Feasibility, acceptability, and measurement reactivity	6
Explaining suicidal ideation among divorced parents by coping strategies and personality characteristics: A mediation model	6
What predicts suicidality among psychologists? An examination of risk and resilience	6
What we said and what I wish we said: Regret during final conversations	6
Stigmatization in the pre-death interactions of family and friends bereaved by a drug-related death	6
Providing a voice to the experience of bereavement support at Mexican workplaces	6
Turkish adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Grief Impairment Scale	6
Communication about euthanasia in Dutch nursing homes	6
‘I feel so alone… I am nobody, and I am nothing’. A psychosocial autopsy study on adolescent girls’ suicide, with a focus on sexual orientation	6
“Quality of life matters to me more than life, itself”: A qualitative exploration of older adults’ values and preferences on controlling the time of death	6
Influencing factors of nurses’ short-term bereavement reactions after patient death	6
In the wake of a boat: The politics of mourning the 18th of April 2015 shipwreck	6
The role of pre-sleep arousal in the connection between insomnia and suicide risk	6
Adult insecure attachment styles and suicidality: A meta-analysis	6
Passing through end-of-life suffering: Possible or not? Results from a qualitative inquiry	6
Correlates of prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms in Brazilian COVID-19 bereaved adults	6
Experiences of grief and loss among registered nurses in residential aged care facilities: A qualitative descriptive study	5
Supports for university counselors impacted by student suicide: A systematic review and thematic synthesis	5
Bereavement in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychometric analysis of the Pandemic Grief Scale-Urdu Version (PGS-UV)	5
Proof of life: Human remains and memory in the Philippine Drug War	5
Filling in the gaps: A grounded theory of the experiences and needs of healthcare staff following a colleague death by suicide in the UK	5
Dynamic bidirectional relation between state mindfulness and suicidal ideation among female college students: The moderating effect of trait mindfulness	5

Suicide-related communication and circumstances surrounding suicide: Study of police records in Slovenia	5
“As long as they remember me, I am alive”: Commemoration and memory through stickers	5
Cohort profile of FALCON: a prospective nationwide cohort of families with minor children who have lost a parent in Denmark in 2019–2021	5
Quality of life and loneliness post-bereavement: Results from a nationwide survey of bereaved older adults	5
Experiences of Iranian people who lost a partner in road traffic collisions: A descriptive phenomenology	5
Understanding self-healing: Recovery insights from Indonesian suicide loss survivors and support providers	5
The Pedagogy of Death and education in the wake of the pandemic: Implications for comprehensive teacher education encompassing awareness and the biographical dimension	5
Mindfulness exercises reduce death anxiety and burnout in intensive care nurses	5
The immortality trap: Terror management in the digital context	5
Reduced death anxiety as a mediator of the relationship between acute subjective effects of psychedelics and improved subjective well-being	5
The impact of their role on telephone crisis support workers’ psychological wellbeing and functioning: Qualitative findings from a mixed methods investigation	5
Grief participation rights and the social support hierarchy: Exploring the communicative role of the bereaved in a social support interaction	5
Applying the phenomenology of grief: An autoethnographic study	5
The first 72 hours: Suicide loss survivor experiences with early responders	5
Consulting parents bereaved by childhood cancer: A qualitative study to improve bereavement services	4
Construction of meaning in survivors of suicide loss: A Spanish translation and application of the Meaning in Loss Codebook	4
Never-ending funerals. Annual burials and reburials of victims of mass violence in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina*	4
Exploring the process of adjustment following partner death in younger, widowed individuals: A qualitative systematic review	4
The experiences of grandparents involved in the home-based end-of-life care of their grandchild with cancer: A qualitative secondary data analysis	4
Navigating autonomy and decision-making capacity: Legal and ethical considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying for individuals with mental disorders in Portugal	4
Transformations and transitions: The social and political life of the dead	4
Patients’ experiences and expectations of the General Practitioner’s role during bereavement care after losing a loved one: A qualitative study	4
Hearing the missing voices: Child and adolescent grief	4
A high tide of death: The American Civil War	4
Emotion regulation deficits across the spectrum of self-harm	4
Death perceptions, grief, and distress in Ultra-Orthodox Jews who witnessed the 2021 Meron disaster	4
Correction	4
Comparing social media engagement between women with suicidal ideation and those who have attempted suicide	4
The impact of a student death doula service-learning experience in palliative care settings on nursing students: A pilot mixed-methods study	4
Factors associated with nonparticipation and loss to follow-up in bereavement research using data from a cohort of parents with a loss in pregnancy or the neonatal period	4
“I could have”: The lived experience of bereavement-related regret	4
Do mortality cues increase state autonomy? The moderating roles of trait autonomy, flexibility, and curiosity	4
Psychosocial burden after the death of a child from cancer: Results of a bereaved parent survey	4
Risk and correlates of prolonged grief disorder in bereaved Chinese university students	3
Changing perspectives on participation in assisted dying in Queensland, Australia: A one-year qualitative longitudinal study of doctors	3
Posttraumatic growth following a drug-related death: A family perspective	3
COVID-19 pandemic impact on funeral service workers’ work-related mental health	3
The mediating role of self-efficacy, social support, and hope in the relation between mental health and resilience among 2023 Türkiye earthquake survivors	3
Measurement invariance of the Grief Facilitation Inventory with respect to youth gender, race, ethnicity, and age	3
Are ‘time’ and ‘culture’ useful and necessary diagnostic requirements for ICD-11 Prolonged Grief Disorder? A Cross-national study	3
Accessing an assisted death from the UK: Navigating the legal ‘grey’ area	3
Level of professional quality of life and coping with death competence in healthcare professionals exposed to perinatal loss: A cross-sectional study	3
“It turned out right for both of us”: A qualitative study about a preference for home death and actual place of death	3
Factors associated with suicide risk among Brazilian graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Relatives’ grief at three moments after death of a loved one during COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)	3
Maternal mental health, marital adjustment, and family support in the grieving process after a pregnancy loss	3
The integrated process model of loss and grief - An interprofessional understanding	3
Exploring attentional bias in nursing students under sadness priming: A dot-probe study	3
End-of-life treatment preferences and advanced care planning among older adults	3
“We are the forgotten grievers”: Bereaved family members’ experiences of support and mental ill-health following a road traffic collision	3
Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS): Psychometric study of validation of the Portuguese version	3
Prolonged grief disorder among those who have lost family members due to natural disasters: A mixed design study	3
Revising ruling discourses: The griefwork evidence-to-practice gap and the mental health workforce	3
Congenital loss: Loss of an immediate family member prior to or during one’s birth	3
Meaning-making following loss among bereaved spouses during the COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)	3
Cluster analysis of suicidal ideation and influencing factors among Spanish teachers	3
“I know she’s there” meanings of continuing bonds for bereaved Costa Rican men: a qualitative study	3
Identifying suicide ideation in mental health application posts: A random forest algorithm	3
Supporting bereaved students: Qualitative insights from Danish college student counselors	3
Bereavement outcomes of carers of patients with high grade glioma: Experiences of support before and after the death	3
Demystifying dying in end-of-life-care: A phenomenological perspective	3
A case report to understand the use of an evidence-based approach of prolonged grief therapy in Chinese culture	3
A short-term intervention program for traumatic grief guided by the Two-Track Model of Bereavement (TTMB): Applying a multi-module transtheoretical framework	3
Understanding how volunteer companionship impacts those during the end of life: A realist evaluation	3
Experiences of Black South African widows regarding mourning rituals following the death of their spouses: Upholding cultural practices or violating human rights?	3
“It’s not a pain you can fix”: A qualitative exploration of working with vulnerably positioned current and bereaved carers across sectors of health and social care	3
Mass Shootings Anxiety Scale: A preliminary psychometric study	3
The psychological burden of bereavement in the general population of UK and Ireland	3
A long overdue sourcebook of American Indian death and dyingA review of Sociology of Death and the American Indian by Gerry R. Cox. Le	3
Integration of disaster nursing, technology, and health policy in realizing community resilience	3
Developing a compassionate university: Insights from a longitudinal process evaluation	3
Factors associated with suicidal ideation among medical students during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru: A multicenter study	3
Beyond meaning in life: How a perceived futility in searching for meaning in life predicts suicidal ideation	3
Missing pieces and body parts: On bodily integrity and political violence	3
“So, whose milk was it? … It became all of ours, together”: A relational autoethnographic study of an interactional human milk donation process through bereavement	3
Network analysis of prolonged grief disorder and anxiety symptoms among bereaved Chinese parents who lost their only child	2
The role of adverse childhood experiences in suicide among sexual minority undergraduate students	2
The political typologies of the dead in Zimbabwe	2
Challenges in pastoral care practice in euthanasia: A concept mapping study among Dutch protestant pastors	2
Risk factors for dysfunctional grief and functional impairment for all causes of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning	2

Bereaved UK military families: A mixed methods study on the provision of practical and emotional support	2
Do insecure attachment styles predict prolonged grief symptoms? Significant null findings	2
Professional bereavement photography for perinatal loss: A mixed-methods study	2
Transnational grieving: The lived experience of Overseas Filipino Workers who lost their loved ones due to COVID-19	2
Understanding the complexity of suicide loss: PTSD, complex PTSD and prolonged grief disorder following suicide bereavement	2
Correction	2
From theory to reality: Unraveling the development of mature death concept	2
Educating death. Children of five generations confronting dead and funerals	2
“We need to share our stories”: Perspectives from suicide loss survivors in India	2
Social stigma of suicide in South Korea: A cultural perspective	2
“Understanding why she had to leave me”: The roles of religion and spirituality in narratives of parents grieving the loss of a child to cancer	2
Spanish adaptation of the Stillbirth Stigma Scale (SSS)	2
Development and validation of the Earthquake Obsession Scale	2
The evidentiary potential of art after genocide	2
The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Psychometric properties and measurement invariance across 10 months	2
Negotiating the postvention situation: A grounded theory of NHS staff experiences when supporting their coworkers following a colleague’s suicide	2
Family members’ experiences of bereavement in the emergency department: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies	2
Death and mourning in times of COVID-19. The experience of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa	2
The Meaning in Loss protocol: A clinical trial of online grief therapy	2
Measuring the outcomes of support provided to people after a suicide or other sudden bereavement: A scoping review	2
Continuing bonds and the posthumous child	2
Demographic differences in the type of firearm and location of bodily injury in firearm suicide decedents	2
Suicidal intent disclosure among adult suicide decedents: Four age group comparisons	2
The stories bones tell. Collaboration between forensic teams and victims’ relatives in the interpretation and ritual accompaniment of human remains in Guatemala*	2
Mother Teresa—The formation of a saint	2
“It took so much of the humanness away”: Health care professional experiences providing care to dying patients during COVID-19	2
Companion animal bereavement: Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire	2
Psychodynamic psychotherapy in serious physical illness: A systematic literature review of approaches and techniques for the treatment of existential distress and mental disorders	2
A qualitative study of factors involved in the helping behaviors of suicide prevention gatekeepers	2
Is COVID-19 loss more associated with prolonged grief disorder than other losses?	2
Theories and concepts about society, dying, and bereavement commonly discussed in education about death, dying, and bereavement	2
Barriers and solutions to equitable funeral care in the U.S. for the LGBTQIA+ community	2
Psychometric properties of the Italian Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report Plus (TGI-SR+)	2
Framing equivocal deaths in contemporary forensics	2
Reflecting on death: Priorities for living well	2
Young adults’ experiences with loss and grief during COVID-19	2
Resilience among bereaved college students: Indicators, facilitators, and barriers	2
Algorithmic anthropomorphism and AI moral standing: The moderating role of mortality salience	2
Continuing bonds of bereaved Muslims mothers with their young dead child	2
Digital mourning: The transformative role of photography in contemporary grief practices	2
Psychosocial factors associated with complicated grief in caregivers during COVID-19: Results from a preliminary cross-sectional study	2
Posttraumatic growth among participating and non-participating organ donor families in grief support groups	2
The indirect effect of generativity on fear of death through ego-integrity holds when controlling for spirituality	2
"Martyrs do not die": Politics and security in Kurdish insurgents’ funerals	2
Navigating the paradox: Strategies utilized by pregnant widows in an attempt to reconcile life and death	2
The experience of children and adolescents in the school setting a few years after losing a parent	2
Embodied existence: Description and meaning of memorial tattoos in mothers experiencing perinatal and neonatal loss	2
Relational closeness– not parasociality– determines the intensity of grief responses to celebrity death	2
Response to Lyon: Oranges, apples and polarizing polemic	2
Religio-cultural facilitators and barriers in decision-making on organ donation: The experiences of families of brain-dead patients in Iran	2
“A sign that I am not alone”: A grounded theory-informed qualitative study on spirituality after suicide bereavement	2
The relational landscape of bereavement after anticipated death: An interpretive model	2
Death and grief in illustrated storybooks: An inventory of Swedish literature for young children	2
Perspectives on dying in severe and enduring eating disorders (SEEDs): A qualitative study among Dutch mental healthcare providers	2
“You have to be mentally prepared for that moment”: Attitudes of the adolescent population to death and their educational implications	2
The association of religion with advance care planning	2
Embodied memories - exploring memorial tattoos through the lens of terror management theory	2
A 4-month prospective study of the relationship between emotional intelligence and suicide ideation in Spanish adolescents: The mediating role of positive and negative affect	2
Grief experiences of nurses who lose their first-degree relatives with the diagnosis of COVID-19: A qualitative study	2
Partner bereavement when parenting dependent children: What factors influence adjustment?	2
Evaluation of the death anxiety beliefs and behaviors scale in Iranian adolescents	2
Adverse and benevolent childhood experiences moderate the association between PTSD symptoms and suicidal ideation	2
Can a global score be derived from the Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale-Short Form (ISLES-SF)? Empirical support for a bi-factor model	1
Death education and photovoice at school: A workshop with Italian high school students	1
Statement of Retraction	1
Perspectives on suicide among Chinese youth on internet platforms: A thematic analysis based on Comments from Bilibili users	1
The paradox of awareness of death in parenthood transition—A qualitative study	1
The pain and relief of grief: Mental pain and mental pain acceptance associations with post-loss pathologies and growth among young widows and widowers	1
Pre-loss grief experiences of adults when someone important to them is at end-of-life: A qualitative systematic review	1
Beyond pain and sorrow: Dysphemistic use in wartime funeral cards	1
Remembering the life and dying days of a deceased close other: Memory recall and associations with loss context	1
Suicide and the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study of discourse on an online pro-choice for suicide discussion forum	1
Exploring posttraumatic growth in individuals bereaved by suicide: A secondary data analysis of a national survey	1
Drug-related death bereavement across the globe	1
The stuff that nightmares are made of: Israeli dreams in times of the Israel-Hamas war	1
Pandemic antigones: The role of women in shaping funeral practices in Chile	1
Female military service members and veterans: Understanding treatment seeking behavior and previous suicide risk among suicide decedents	1
The functions of the dreams of the deceased: A qualitative study of women bereaved by partner’s suicide	1
Prolonged grief disorder: A bibliometric analysis	1
Risk perception, social distancing, and distress during COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the role of online counseling and perceived social support	1
Child loss and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults: The moderating role of community care service	1
Death education and educators: The role of attitudes, anxiety, and future time perspective	1
Investigating the relationship between changes in metaphysical beliefs and death anxiety following a significant psychedelic experience	1
Grief Impairment Scale: A biopsychosocial measure of grief-related functional impairment	1
Misrepresentation: A final response to Bruce and Beuthin on Medical Assistance in Dying	1
Comparison of university students who experienced the death of a parent and those who did not in terms of self-compassion and difficulty in emotion regulation	1
Breaking the silence: A systematic review of methodology and findings of studies on bereavement among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities	1
The Inventory of Social Expectations in Bereavement: Development and psychometric validation of a new instrument	1
Digital doppelgänger	1
A multidisciplinary perspective on physician-assisted dying in primary care in The Netherlands: A narrative interview study	1
The ideal and the real: Patient and bereaved family caregiver perspectives on the significance of place of death	1
Bereavement affinities: A qualitative study of lived experiences of grief and loss	1
Continuing bonds in parents after a loss in pregnancy, or a death at or shortly after birth: A population-based study	1
Funeral arrangements requested by suicide decedents in Shanghai and Wuhan, China	1
Overwhelming and unjust: A qualitative study of fathers’ experiences of grief following neonatal death	1