Death Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Death Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social disabling: A qualitative study of interpersonal interaction patterns of shiduers in China73
Introduction of the French version of the Multidimensional Orientation Toward Dying and Death Inventory (MODDI-F/fre)49
Psycholinguistic, Stroop, and self-report measurements of death anxiety: A study of convergent validity30
Who breaks bad news: Doctors, family caregivers or cancer patients? A qualitative study in Southern China23
Grief Coach : Feasibility and acceptability of a text message program for bereavement support among grievers in the United Kingdom19
A poetry of grief17
Aesthetic practices in bereavement17
“Who is going to take care of these grandkids if I go?”: End-of-life planning by caregivers in grandparent-headed households16
Exploring the stigma of suicide in Malaysia: Lived experience perspectives16
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
Death attitudes and Chinese college students’ mental health: A latent profile analysis15
Coping and grief symptoms after parental loss in adolescence - a nationwide follow-up study15
Violence and suicide risk behavior in a nationally representative sample of youth aged 12-17: What does it mean to be at-risk?15
The gift of peer understanding and suicide bereavement support groups: A qualitative study14
An online grief intervention to improve well-being and reduce clinical symptoms: a randomized controlled trial14
Mothers’ views on death education for children aged 4–614
Correlations between the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide rates and the non-assisted suicide rates at the municipal level in the Netherlands14
“Mum, when we die, what do you think happens?” A qualitative study of views on death education among Spanish families13
End-of-life care volunteers’ initial motivational profile and their death anxiety: A latent profile analysis13
Shared death experience or shared beliefs?12
Community-based death preparation and education: A scoping review12
Balancing roles: Teaching staff’s dilemma in supporting bereaved college students12
Grief, mourning, and the body: Ritual attention to the death of victims of the dictatorship in Chile*11
Factors associated with grief in informal carers of people living with Motor Neuron Disease: A mixed methods systematic review11
Applying attachment theory to grief therapy through the therapeutic relationshipA review of Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy: The Clinician’s Guide to Foundations and Applications 11
The impact of heteropatriarchy and support on grief in sexual minorities: A qualitative study11
Frequency of suicidal ideation inventory: A reliability generalization meta-analysis11
Turkish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire: Validity, reliability and psychometric properties10
Age does matter for hospice care: Health care providers’ attitudes toward hospice care in Binzhou, China9
Grief trajectories among bereaved parents after the 2011 Utøya terror attack: A qualitative analysis9
Continuing bonds or ongoing attachments? Exploring the distinction9
Assessing the fear of COVID-19 scale among health care workers in Israel: a psychometric validation study9
The role of sense of coherence and emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and grief9
Thoughts and emotions evoked by thinking about own death: American versus Japanese undergraduates9
Unity strengthens and inhibits development: A focus group interview with volunteer adults in support programs for bereaved children and their family9
Applying terror management theory as a framework to understand the impact of heightened mortality salience on children, adolescents, and their parents: A systematic review8
Disembodied ritual: An explorative study on the meanings of physical absence during funerals by bereaved in times of COVID-198
Ethical judgment in assessing requests for medical assistance in dying in Canada and Quebec: What can we learn from other jurisdictions?8
Transforming funeral practices: Rituality and necropower in mass death situations8
Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death8
Navigating mortality: A multidisciplinary approach to the epistemology and practice of death education8
Survivors’ perspectives on saying goodbye: Implications for end-of-life engagement across the lifespan and grieving process8
Psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) in Brazil8
Windmills and pediatric palliative care8
Readiness of a U.S. Black community to address suicide8
Death before birth: An encounter between Prenatal Pedagogy and the Pedagogy of Death7
Reflecting on the concept of death: A qualitative investigation of the experiences among early childhood education teachers7
To ventilate or not to ventilate: A qualitative analysis of physicians’ experience during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic7
Navigating the edge: A personal account of madness, suicide, and recovery7
I occasionally wear his huge sweaters… but I often prefer not to think about it: Bereaved children talking and not talking about parental loss7
Cultural differences on baby loss experiences: A comparison of the US and New Zealand7
How to prevent suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury? An analysis of adolescent typologies7
Effectiveness of the death education in Chinese nurses: A mixed method study7
What we said and what I wish we said: Regret during final conversations6
What predicts suicidality among psychologists? An examination of risk and resilience6
The role of pre-sleep arousal in the connection between insomnia and suicide risk6
Explaining suicidal ideation among divorced parents by coping strategies and personality characteristics: A mediation model6
Communication about euthanasia in Dutch nursing homes6
Adult insecure attachment styles and suicidality: A meta-analysis6
Cohort profile of FALCON: a prospective nationwide cohort of families with minor children who have lost a parent in Denmark in 2019–20216
Turkish adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Grief Impairment Scale6
In the wake of a boat: The politics of mourning the 18th of April 2015 shipwreck6
‘I feel so alone… I am nobody, and I am nothing’. A psychosocial autopsy study on adolescent girls’ suicide, with a focus on sexual orientation6
Passing through end-of-life suffering: Possible or not? Results from a qualitative inquiry6
The impact of their role on telephone crisis support workers’ psychological wellbeing and functioning: Qualitative findings from a mixed methods investigation6
Providing a voice to the experience of bereavement support at Mexican workplaces6
Influencing factors of nurses’ short-term bereavement reactions after patient death6
Parents’ lived experience of support through their neonate’s end of life and grief journey: An interpretative phenomenology study6
Ecological momentary assessment in prolonged grief research: Feasibility, acceptability, and measurement reactivity6
Correlates of prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms in Brazilian COVID-19 bereaved adults5
Grief participation rights and the social support hierarchy: Exploring the communicative role of the bereaved in a social support interaction5
Filling in the gaps: A grounded theory of the experiences and needs of healthcare staff following a colleague death by suicide in the UK5
Applying the phenomenology of grief: An autoethnographic study5
Counselor preparedness to counsel grieving clients: Insights and implications5
Construction of meaning in survivors of suicide loss: A Spanish translation and application of the Meaning in Loss Codebook5
The first 72 hours: Suicide loss survivor experiences with early responders5
Reduced death anxiety as a mediator of the relationship between acute subjective effects of psychedelics and improved subjective well-being5
Experiences of Iranian people who lost a partner in road traffic collisions: A descriptive phenomenology5
Understanding self-healing: Recovery insights from Indonesian suicide loss survivors and support providers5
“As long as they remember me, I am alive”: Commemoration and memory through stickers5
The Pedagogy of Death and education in the wake of the pandemic: Implications for comprehensive teacher education encompassing awareness and the biographical dimension5
The impact of a student death doula service-learning experience in palliative care settings on nursing students: A pilot mixed-methods study5
Comparing social media engagement between women with suicidal ideation and those who have attempted suicide5
Consulting parents bereaved by childhood cancer: A qualitative study to improve bereavement services5
Proof of life: Human remains and memory in the Philippine Drug War5
Supports for university counselors impacted by student suicide: A systematic review and thematic synthesis5
Quality of life and loneliness post-bereavement: Results from a nationwide survey of bereaved older adults5
Bereavement in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychometric analysis of the Pandemic Grief Scale-Urdu Version (PGS-UV)5
Dynamic bidirectional relation between state mindfulness and suicidal ideation among female college students: The moderating effect of trait mindfulness5
Patients’ experiences and expectations of the General Practitioner’s role during bereavement care after losing a loved one: A qualitative study5
Suicide-related communication and circumstances surrounding suicide: Study of police records in Slovenia5
Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS): Psychometric study of validation of the Portuguese version4
Do mortality cues increase state autonomy? The moderating roles of trait autonomy, flexibility, and curiosity4
Navigating autonomy and decision-making capacity: Legal and ethical considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying for individuals with mental disorders in Portugal4
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 period4
Exploring the process of adjustment following partner death in younger, widowed individuals: A qualitative systematic review4
“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 care4
Emotion regulation deficits across the spectrum of self-harm4
Correction4
Experiences of Black South African widows regarding mourning rituals following the death of their spouses: Upholding cultural practices or violating human rights?4
A high tide of death: The American Civil War4
Transformations and transitions: The social and political life of the dead4
Psychosocial burden after the death of a child from cancer: Results of a bereaved parent survey4
COVID-19 pandemic impact on funeral service workers’ work-related mental health4
Death perceptions, grief, and distress in Ultra-Orthodox Jews who witnessed the 2021 Meron disaster4
The experiences of grandparents involved in the home-based end-of-life care of their grandchild with cancer: A qualitative secondary data analysis4
Mindfulness exercises reduce death anxiety and burnout in intensive care nurses4
Hearing the missing voices: Child and adolescent grief4
Never-ending funerals. Annual burials and reburials of victims of mass violence in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina*4
“I could have”: The lived experience of bereavement-related regret4
Factors associated with suicidal ideation among medical students during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru: A multicenter study3
“I know she’s there” meanings of continuing bonds for bereaved Costa Rican men: a qualitative study3
Mass Shootings Anxiety Scale: A preliminary psychometric study3
Cluster analysis of suicidal ideation and influencing factors among Spanish teachers3
A long overdue sourcebook of American Indian death and dyingA review of Sociology of Death and the American Indian by Gerry R. Cox. Le3
Measurement invariance of the Grief Facilitation Inventory with respect to youth gender, race, ethnicity, and age3
Factors associated with suicide risk among Brazilian graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Missing pieces and body parts: On bodily integrity and political violence3
Understanding how volunteer companionship impacts those during the end of life: A realist evaluation3
Maternal mental health, marital adjustment, and family support in the grieving process after a pregnancy loss3
“We are the forgotten grievers”: Bereaved family members’ experiences of support and mental ill-health following a road traffic collision3
Posttraumatic growth following a drug-related death: A family perspective3
Bereavement outcomes of carers of patients with high grade glioma: Experiences of support before and after the death3
Meaning-making following loss among bereaved spouses during the COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)3
Level of professional quality of life and coping with death competence in healthcare professionals exposed to perinatal loss: A cross-sectional study3
Risk and correlates of prolonged grief disorder in bereaved Chinese university students3
Integration of disaster nursing, technology, and health policy in realizing community resilience3
Relatives’ grief at three moments after death of a loved one during COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)3
Talking about death when a parent with dependent children dies of cancer: A pilot study of the Family Talk Intervention in palliative care3
The integrated process model of loss and grief - An interprofessional understanding3
Validating the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in a Colombian sample3
Changing perspectives on participation in assisted dying in Queensland, Australia: A one-year qualitative longitudinal study of doctors3
Revising ruling discourses: The griefwork evidence-to-practice gap and the mental health workforce3
Identifying suicide ideation in mental health application posts: A random forest algorithm3
A case report to understand the use of an evidence-based approach of prolonged grief therapy in Chinese culture3
The mediating role of self-efficacy, social support, and hope in the relation between mental health and resilience among 2023 Türkiye earthquake survivors3
“So, whose milk was it? … It became all of ours, together”: A relational autoethnographic study of an interactional human milk donation process through bereavement3
“It turned out right for both of us”: A qualitative study about a preference for home death and actual place of death3
Supporting bereaved students: Qualitative insights from Danish college student counselors3
End-of-life treatment preferences and advanced care planning among older adults3
Demographic differences in the type of firearm and location of bodily injury in firearm suicide decedents2
Partner bereavement when parenting dependent children: What factors influence adjustment?2
Suicidal intent disclosure among adult suicide decedents: Four age group comparisons2
Theories and concepts about society, dying, and bereavement commonly discussed in education about death, dying, and bereavement2
Embodied memories - exploring memorial tattoos through the lens of terror management theory2
Attitudes promoting coping with death anxiety among parents of children with disabilities2
The Meaning in Loss protocol: A clinical trial of online grief therapy2
Continuing bonds and the posthumous child2
Posttraumatic growth among participating and non-participating organ donor families in grief support groups2
The presence of death in Spanish education law (1812–2006)2
Network analysis of prolonged grief disorder and anxiety symptoms among bereaved Chinese parents who lost their only child2
The association of religion with advance care planning2
Grief experiences of nurses who lose their first-degree relatives with the diagnosis of COVID-19: A qualitative study2
Evaluation of the death anxiety beliefs and behaviors scale in Iranian adolescents2
Family members’ experiences of bereavement in the emergency department: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies2
Understanding the complexity of suicide loss: PTSD, complex PTSD and prolonged grief disorder following suicide bereavement2
“Understanding why she had to leave me”: The roles of religion and spirituality in narratives of parents grieving the loss of a child to cancer2
The relational landscape of bereavement after anticipated death: An interpretive model2
Professional bereavement photography for perinatal loss: A mixed-methods study2
The evidentiary potential of art after genocide2
Reflecting on death: Priorities for living well2
Development and validation of the Earthquake Obsession Scale2
Death and grief in illustrated storybooks: An inventory of Swedish literature for young children2
Educating death. Children of five generations confronting dead and funerals2
Is COVID-19 loss more associated with prolonged grief disorder than other losses?2
“A sign that I am not alone”: A grounded theory-informed qualitative study on spirituality after suicide bereavement2
From theory to reality: Unraveling the development of mature death concept2
Resilience among bereaved college students: Indicators, facilitators, and barriers2
Psychosocial factors associated with complicated grief in caregivers during COVID-19: Results from a preliminary cross-sectional study2
Perspectives on dying in severe and enduring eating disorders (SEEDs): A qualitative study among Dutch mental healthcare providers2
Young adults’ experiences with loss and grief during COVID-192
A qualitative study of factors involved in the helping behaviors of suicide prevention gatekeepers2
Negotiating the postvention situation: A grounded theory of NHS staff experiences when supporting their coworkers following a colleague’s suicide2
Accessing an assisted death from the UK: Navigating the legal ‘grey’ area2
Are ‘time’ and ‘culture’ useful and necessary diagnostic requirements for ICD-11 Prolonged Grief Disorder? A Cross-national study2
“You have to be mentally prepared for that moment”: Attitudes of the adolescent population to death and their educational implications2
Mother Teresa—The formation of a saint2
Correction2
Embodied existence: Description and meaning of memorial tattoos in mothers experiencing perinatal and neonatal loss2
Spanish adaptation of the Stillbirth Stigma Scale (SSS)2
The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Psychometric properties and measurement invariance across 10 months2
Social stigma of suicide in South Korea: A cultural perspective2
A 4-month prospective study of the relationship between emotional intelligence and suicide ideation in Spanish adolescents: The mediating role of positive and negative affect2
Navigating the paradox: Strategies utilized by pregnant widows in an attempt to reconcile life and death2
Psychodynamic psychotherapy in serious physical illness: A systematic literature review of approaches and techniques for the treatment of existential distress and mental disorders2
Relational closeness– not parasociality– determines the intensity of grief responses to celebrity death2
The political typologies of the dead in Zimbabwe2
Do insecure attachment styles predict prolonged grief symptoms? Significant null findings2
"Martyrs do not die": Politics and security in Kurdish insurgents’ funerals2
The psychological burden of bereavement in the general population of UK and Ireland2
Barriers and solutions to equitable funeral care in the U.S. for the LGBTQIA+ community2
Digital mourning: The transformative role of photography in contemporary grief practices2
Continuing bonds of bereaved Muslims mothers with their young dead child2
Developing a compassionate university: Insights from a longitudinal process evaluation2
Congenital loss: Loss of an immediate family member prior to or during one’s birth2
Challenges in pastoral care practice in euthanasia: A concept mapping study among Dutch protestant pastors2
Adverse and benevolent childhood experiences moderate the association between PTSD symptoms and suicidal ideation2
Response to Lyon: Oranges, apples and polarizing polemic2
Misrepresentation: A final response to Bruce and Beuthin on Medical Assistance in Dying1
Digital doppelgänger1
ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder: Factors, correlates, and functional impairment1
Perspectives on a good death: A comparative study of veterans and civilians1
Perinatal death, collective action and legislation against obstetric violence in Argentina1
Remembering the life and dying days of a deceased close other: Memory recall and associations with loss context1
Exploring contemporary forms of aid in dying: An ethnography of euthanasia in Belgium and assisted suicide in Switzerland1
The European Grief Conference, Copenhagen 2022: An effort to unite the field of bereavement care in Europe1
Impacts of exposure to suicide of a military colleague from the lived experience of veterans: Informing postvention responses from a military cultural perspective1
From technical measures to moral obligations: The management and fate of fragmented human remains following disasters. The case of a plane crash in France in 2015*1
Oath-taking and resolution of issues of death accusation in Ebonyi state, South East Nigeria: evidence from bereaved family members1
Grief and bereavement beliefs and their associations with death anxiety and complicated grief in a U.S. college student sample1
Funeral arrangements requested by suicide decedents in Shanghai and Wuhan, China1
Grief and bereavement beliefs among U. S. mental health professionals and the general public1
The paradox of awareness of death in parenthood transition—A qualitative study1
Memorial playgrounds: Special ways of coping with extreme loss1
Beyond pain and sorrow: Dysphemistic use in wartime funeral cards1
Female military service members and veterans: Understanding treatment seeking behavior and previous suicide risk among suicide decedents1
Continuing bonds in parents after a loss in pregnancy, or a death at or shortly after birth: A population-based study1
Death education and educators: The role of attitudes, anxiety, and future time perspective1
Self-destruction or surrender? Religiosity and active versus passive euthanasia1
The stuff that nightmares are made of: Israeli dreams in times of the Israel-Hamas war1
Death education and photovoice at school: A workshop with Italian high school students1
Drug-related death bereavement across the globe A review of The Routledge international handbook of drug-related death bereavement 1
Examining grieving problem correlates of anticipation of the death vs. shock among overdose death and suicide bereaved adults1
E-learning as a tool of suicide prevention training: A meta-analysis and systematic review1
Examining optimism and flourishing as protective factors of suicidality across the adult lifespan: A cross-sectional investigation in three Spanish age groups1
The ideal and the real: Patient and bereaved family caregiver perspectives on the significance of place of death1
Investigating the relationship between changes in metaphysical beliefs and death anxiety following a significant psychedelic experience1
Does time heal all wounds? An investigation of time, grief, and attitudes toward death1
“Perhaps something of beauty can grow:” experiences of care farming for grief1
Overwhelming and unjust: A qualitative study of fathers’ experiences of grief following neonatal death1
Prolonged grief disorder: A bibliometric analysis1
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 regulation1
Child loss and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults: The moderating role of community care service1
A multidisciplinary perspective on physician-assisted dying in primary care in The Netherlands: A narrative interview study1
Assistance in dying across borders: How the transnational circulations of persons, terms and themes influence the construction of a public problem1
Can a global score be derived from the Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale-Short Form (ISLES-SF)? Empirical support for a bi-factor model1
Community workshops increase advance care planning knowledge, appointment of legal proxies and completion of end-of life written plans1
MAiD as human connection: Stories and metaphors of physician providers’ existential lived experience1
Apocalypse now: Thoughts about human extinction under mortality salience increase death-thought accessibility but reduce worldview defense1
Suicide and the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study of discourse on an online pro-choice for suicide discussion forum1
Individuals with higher suicide risk showed more anger and disgust during rest1
Experiences of prognosis disclosure versus nondisclosure among family caregivers of persons with advanced cancer1
The stigmatization of suicide: A study of stories told by college students in China1
Risk perception, social distancing, and distress during COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the role of online counseling and perceived social support1
Bereavement in political conflict: Ideological meaning-making and dialogue1
Pre-loss grief experiences of adults when someone important to them is at end-of-life: A qualitative systematic review1
The pain and relief of grief: Mental pain and mental pain acceptance associations with post-loss pathologies and growth among young widows and widowers1
Exploring posttraumatic growth in individuals bereaved by suicide: A secondary data analysis of a national survey1
Bereavement affinities: A qualitative study of lived experiences of grief and loss1
The functions of the dreams of the deceased: A qualitative study of women bereaved by partner’s suicide1
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