OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Death Studies is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: A brief mental health screener for COVID-19 related anxiety	1015
COVID-19 burnout, COVID-19 stress and resilience: Initial psychometric properties of COVID-19 Burnout Scale	177
Measuring anxiety related to COVID-19: A Turkish validation study of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale	153
COVID-19 severity, self-efficacy, knowledge, preventive behaviors, and mental health in Turkey	140
Adaptation and evaluation of Turkish version of the fear of COVID-19 Scale	124
The relationship between fear of COVID-19 and mental health problems: A meta-analysis	119
Factor analysis of the COVID-19 Perceived Risk Scale: A preliminary study	114
Validation of the Korean version of the obsession with COVID-19 scale and the Coronavirus anxiety scale	67
Pandemic Grief Scale: A screening tool for dysfunctional grief due to a COVID-19 loss	65
Perceived fear of COVID-19 infection according to sex, age and occupational risk using the Brazilian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale	65
Subjective vitality and loneliness explain how coronavirus anxiety increases rumination among college students	53
Suicide risk during the lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Colombia	52
Circumstances of the death and associated risk factors for severity and impairment of COVID-19 grief	50
Social isolation and the mitigation of coronavirus anxiety: The mediating role of meaning	50
Risk factors for dysfunctional grief and functional impairment for all causes of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning	44
Coronaphobia among healthcare professionals in Mexico: A psychometric analysis	41
Do fear of COVID-19 and religious coping predict depression, anxiety, and stress among the Arab population during health crisis?	38
COVID-19 Phobia in the United States: Validation of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-SE)	37
Fear of COVID-19 scale: Validity, reliability and factorial invariance in Argentina’s general population	36
COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh and associated psychological problems: An online survey	33
Fear of death in the shadow of COVID-19: The mediating role of perceived stress in the relationship between neuroticism and death anxiety	33
Culture and grief: Ethnographic perspectives on ritual, relationships and remembering	33
Are deaths from COVID-19 associated with higher rates of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) than deaths from other causes?	30
Fatal prescriptions: Immigration detention, mismedication, and the necropolitics of uncare	29
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the fear of COVID-19 scale in seven Latin American countries	27

Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: New psychometric evidence for the Spanish version based on CFA and IRT models in a Peruvian sample	27
Factorial validity of the Urdu version of the Obsession with COVID-19 Scale: Preliminary investigation using a university sample in Pakistan	26
COVID-19 brings a new urgency for advance care planning: Implications of death education	25
Six feet apart or six feet under: The impact of COVID-19 on the Black community	24
What do teachers think of death education?	20
Validation of the prolonged grief scale (PG-13) and investigation of the prevalence and risk factors of prolonged grief disorder in Turkish bereaved samples	19
Work status, death anxiety and psychological distress during COVID-19 pandemic: Implications of the terror management theory	18
Border beings. Present absences among migrants in the Spanish enclave of Melilla	18
Experiences of grief-bereavement after a medically assisted death in Canada: Bringing death to life	16
The existential dimension of the pandemic: Death attitudes, personal worldview, and coronavirus anxiety	16
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed dying and grief: Will there be a surge of complicated grief?	16
Non-disclosure of suicidal ideation in psychiatric inpatients: Rates and correlates	16
Depression and alcohol use disorders as precursors to death by suicide	16
Adaptation of the Cuban version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale	15
The moderating role of subjective nearness-to-death in the association between health worries and death anxieties from COVID-19	15
Living dead: Suspended lives during/after gender violence	15
Understanding wellbeing and death obsession of young adults in the context of Coronavirus experiences: Mitigating the effect of mindful awareness	15
Adaptation and evaluation of COVID-19 related Psychological Distress Scale Turkish form	15
Obsession with Covid-19 in Peruvian police and armed forces: Validation of the obsession with Covid-19 Scale in Spanish using SEM and IRT models	14
The value of implementation science in bridging the evidence gap in bereavement care	14
Risk factors for suicide in chronic fatigue syndrome	14
Developing a death literacy index	14
Prevalence and correlates of coronavirus anxiety in Germany: Results of a nationally representative survey	13
Prevalence and predictors of prolonged grief symptoms among those bereaved from a drug-related death in a convenience sample of Norwegian parents: A cross-sectional study	13
Adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale in the general Colombian population	12
Assistance in dying: A comparative look at legal definitions	12
Dimensions of religion and attitudes toward euthanasia	12
Effects of bereavement groups–a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Social justice and cemetery systems	11
Death certificate errors in three teaching hospitals of Zahedan, southeast of Iran	11
Grieving the loss of a pet: A qualitative systematic review	11
The fear of the COVID-19 Scale: validation in the Portuguese general population	11
Is it possible to find a bifactor structure in the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S)? Psychometric evidence in an Ecuadorian sample	11
Risk perception, social distancing, and distress during COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the role of online counseling and perceived social support	10
Death anxiety and burnout in intensive care unit specialists facing the COVID-19 outbreak: The mediating role of obsession with COVID-19 and coronaphobia	10
‘Special death’: Living with bereavement by drug-related death in Ireland	10
Do emotion regulation difficulties mediate the association between neuroticism, insecure attachment, and prolonged grief?	10
Measuring dysfunctional grief due to a COVID-19 loss: A Turkish validation study of the Pandemic Grief Scale	10
Adaptation of the COV19-QoL Scale to Turkish culture: Its psychometric properties in diagnosed and undiagnosed individuals	10
Losing a close person following death by sudden cardiac arrest: Bereaved family members’ lived experiences	10
Psychache, unmet interpersonal needs, childhood trauma and suicide ideation in young adults	10
Complicated grief knowledge, attitudes, skills, and training among mental health professionals: A qualitative exploration	10
Mediating role of positivity in the relationship between state anxiety and problematic social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Loss and grief in elderly people: Results from the LIFE-Adult-Study	9
Adapting and validating the coronavirus-19 phobia scale (C19P-S) in Korea	9
Exploring contemporary forms of aid in dying: An ethnography of euthanasia in Belgium and assisted suicide in Switzerland	9
A comparative study of death anxiety and death attitudes in Han and Tibetan ethnic groups	9
Challenges in home care at the end stage of dementia: Hospice units vs. home care units. A qualitative study	9
The experience of divine struggle following child loss: The Case of Israeli bereaved Modern-Orthodox parents	9
The effect of professional education on medical and nursing students’ attitudes toward death	8

Who is really at risk? The contribution of death anxiety in suicide risk and loneliness among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Those left behind: A scoping review of the effects of suicide exposure on veterans, service members, and military families	8
Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Obsession with COVID-19 Scale (BP-OCS) using a large University Sample in Brazil	8
Professional quality of life, depression, and meaning in life among helping professionals: The moderating role of self-competence in death work	8
Caregiver behaviors and childhood maladaptive grief: Initial validation of the Grief Facilitation Inventory	8
Social support as a protective factor against the effect of grief reactions on depression for bereaved single older adults	7
Psychosocial factors associated with complicated grief in caregivers during COVID-19: Results from a preliminary cross-sectional study	7
Unfinished business and self-blaming emotions among those bereaved by a COVID-19 death	7
Anxiety and COVID-19: Coronavirus Anxiety Scale scores in medical and non-medical personnel in urban hospitals in Guadalajara. A cross-sectional survey study	7
Validating the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in a Colombian sample	7
The language of dying: Communication about end-of-life in residential aged care	7
Death thoughts predict increased depression for those with low self-worth	7
Factors associated with suicidal ideation among medical students during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru: A multicenter study	7
Death education’s “period of popularity”: Lessons for contemporary P-12 schools in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Emotion regulation deficits across the spectrum of self-harm	7
Turkish Version of the Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report (TGI-SR): Validity and reliability	7
“Finding a safe space”: A qualitative study of what makes help helpful for adolescents bereaved by suicide	7
Talking about death when a parent with dependent children dies of cancer: A pilot study of the Family Talk Intervention in palliative care	7
The stigmatization of suicide: A study of stories told by college students in China	7
Suicidality Among College Students in Spain: Prevalence and Associations With Substance Use, Social Support, and Resilience	6
Pregnancy loss experiences of couples in a phenomenological study: Gender differences within the Turkish sociocultural context	6
Death education and photovoice at school: A workshop with Italian high school students	6
Prolonged grief disorder among bereaved survivors after the 2011 Van Earthquake in Turkey	6
Implicit measure of suicidal ideation in patients with depression	6
Ethical judgment in assessing requests for medical assistance in dying in Canada and Quebec: What can we learn from other jurisdictions?	6
Methodological weakness of the death-word-fragment task: Alternative implicit death anxiety measures	6
When college students grieve: New insights into the effects of loss during emerging adulthood	6
Assessment of psychometric characteristics of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in patients with preexisting psychiatric disorders	6
Bereavement in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychometric analysis of the Pandemic Grief Scale-Urdu Version (PGS-UV)	5
Young adults’ experiences with loss and grief during COVID-19	5
Effectiveness of Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) in Lithuania	5
The social health domain of people bereaved by a drug-related death and associations with professional help: A cross-sectional study	5
Replication analysis of the COVID-19 Worry Scale	5
Are unmet needs driving requests for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)? A qualitative study of Canadian MAiD providers	5
Digital storytelling: Narrating meaning in bereavement	5
Beyond a traumatic loss: The experiences of mourning alone after parental death during COVID-19 pandemic	5
Psychometric validation of the French version of the Suicidal Ideation Attributes Scale (SIDAS-FR)	5
Reasons for living among those with lived experience entering the suicide prevention workforce	5
Operationalizing intersectionality as a framework in qualitative grief research	5
Immediate bereavement experiences when a parent of dependent children has died of cancer: Funeral directors' perspectives	5
Psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in a US college sample	5
Forgive but not forget: From self-forgiveness to posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors	5
Overwhelming and unjust: A qualitative study of fathers’ experiences of grief following neonatal death	5
Assistance in dying: Conditions for international comparison	5
Do interpersonal events buffer or worsen depressive and grief related symptoms in people bereaved through suicide?	5
Forced and chosen transfers for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) before and during the COVID 19 pandemic: A mixed methods study	5
Perception of grief responses: Are maladaptive grief responses and the stages of grief considered normal?	5
The Two-Track Model of Dementia Grief and spousal response to illness and death	5
Community-based death preparation and education: A scoping review	5
Grief Impairment Scale: A biopsychosocial measure of grief-related functional impairment	4
How we continue bonds with deceased persons: The proximity-seeking behavior scale	4
Parents’ religious/spiritual beliefs, practices, changes and needs after pregnancy or neonatal loss—A Danish cross-sectional study	4
Slovak adaptation of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale	4
French-Canadian validation of the Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report (TGI-SR)	4
Prolonged grief and posttraumatic growth among middle-aged and older widowed persons: A latent class analysis and testing for the role of social support	4
The “men in grief” phenomenon among suicide bereaved Chinese men in Hong Kong	4
Predictive factors associated with death depression in women with breast cancer	4
Perceptions of ideal grief and continuing bonds: Undergraduate student survey on persistent complex bereavement disorder	4
Rebuilding wellbeing: Understanding the role of self-criticism, anger rumination, and death distress after the February 6, 2023, Türkiye Earthquake	4
Traumatic experiences and resilience: Associations with mental health, death attitudes, and religion in university students	4
The lived experience of bereaved Iranian families with COVID-19 grief	4
“Perhaps something of beauty can grow:” experiences of care farming for grief	4
Thinking for healing: The role of mentalization deficits as moderator in the link between complicated grief and suicide ideation among suicide-loss survivors	4
Posttraumatic growth following a drug-related death: A family perspective	4