OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying

Article	Citations
Nationwide Survey on Post-Bereavement Family Support Provided by Care Managers and Its Factors: A Cross-Sectional Study	35
Life After the Storm: An Examination of Bereavement and Posttraumatic Growth Among Urban Adolescents	21
A Network Meta-Analysis of Different Psychological Therapies for Death Anxiety in Older Adults	21
Awareness of Age-Related Change is Associated With Attitudes Toward Death and Dying in Older Adults	20
Measuring Dysfunctional Grief due to a COVID-19 Loss: A Kurdish Validation Study of the Pandemic Grief Scale	20
A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of a Suicide Bereavement Service on People Bereaved by Suicide	20
“I Want My Loved One Back Virtually”: Exploring the Desire of Bereaved People to Create and Maintain Digital Bonds With Their Deceased Loved Ones	18
Changes in Place of Death of Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Study from an Aging Country	18
Death Distress and Religiosity Among Spanish Patients Diagnosed With Depression and Anxiety	16
The Drivers of Suicides in Turkey: An Econometric Approach	16
Book Review: Creating Meaning in Funerals: How Families and Communities Make Sense of Death HoyW.G. (2024). Creating meaning in funerals: How families and communities make sense of death. New York, NY	16
Healing Strides: The Effectiveness of a Combined Grief Group Counseling and 5K Race Training Intervention on Grief-Related Symptoms	16
“What’s Inside of You Now is Just Bones and Skin”: The Tension between Restorative Meaning-Making and Deliberate Detachment in Maternal Experiences of Stillbirth	15
Schoolchildren’s Attitudes Toward Covid-19 Measures Scale: A Scale Development Study	14
Where Are They Now: The Narratives of Children Who Lost a Parent on 9/11	14
Factors Involved in Posttraumatic Growth in Mothers Experiencing Fetal and Infant Death	13
Caring Connections: A Grounded Theory Study of the Grief and Bereavement Experiences of Children With Intellectual Disabilities	13
Effect of Veteran-Focused Suicide Prevention Public Messaging on Help-Seeking Behavior and Secure Firearm Storage	13
The Effect of Mindfulness on Death Escape Acceptance in Young People: Emotion Regulation as a Mediator	13
The Pedagogy of Death in the Classroom: High-School Students’ Perceptions After the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Exploring the Bereavement Experience Due to COVID-19 Death Among Arabs in Israel	12
Understanding Bereavement Experiences and Coping Among Bereaved Family Caregivers in Singapore: Positive Meaning Reconstruction in the Dual Process Model	12
Unpacking the Meaning of Closeness, Reconsidering the Concept of Impact in Suicide Exposure, and Expanding Beyond Bereavement: “Just, I Hope You Don’t Forget About Us”	12
RETRACTED: Book Review: Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief Claire BidwellSmith. (2018) Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief. New York: Hachette Books. ISBN: 978-073823-478-6. Softcover, 272 pp. $14.99	12
Beyond the Surface: Teachers’ Perceptions and Experiences in Cases of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Among High School Students	12

Hurricane-Force Grief: A Mirror of Fathers’ Love	12
“How Do Municipal Managers Describe Improving the Services Provided to Drug Death-Bereaved Persons?” a Qualitative Study	12
Evaluating the Correlation of Death Anxiety With Spirituality, Religious Attitude, and Resilience in Patients With Cardiovascular Diseases	12
“I Do Not Think She Will Understand, This is Not a Situation for a Girl Like Her:” Disenfranchised Grief Among Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the Ultra-orthodox Jewish Soci	11
From Private Pain to Shared Sorrow: A Process Model of Collective Bereavement	11
Depression, Complicated Grief, and Suicide Ideation Following Bereavement During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Exploring Resilience and Post-traumatic Growth Among Bereaved Adults in Kosovo	11
Qualitative Bereavement Experiences and Support in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Scoping Review	11
Understanding the Relationship Between Peer Support and Grief/Growth in Chinese Shidu Parents: The Roles of Internalized Stigma and Stigma Resistance	10
Grief and Posttraumatic Growth in Individuals Who Have Experienced the Death of a Loved One From Six Latin American Countries: The Moderating Role of Gender and Age	10
Fatalism and Suicidal Behaviors Among Chinese College Students: The Mediating Role of Depressive Symptoms and the Moderating Role of Coping Strategies	10
The Meaning of Mental Imagery in Acute Suicidal Episodes: A Qualitative Exploration of Lived Experiences	10
The Good Death Among Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color: Which Aspects of a Good Death Are Most Important?	10
Suicidal Behavior in Women as a Risk Factor Generated by the Invisibilization of Their Affective Sexual Diversity, Gender Identity and LGTBphobia	10
Archives of the Afterlife: The Disappearance of the British Empire’s Dead in Twentieth-Century China	10
Mapping Publication Trends and Research Hotspots in Perinatal Grief: A 45-Year Bibliometric Analysis	10
Death Anxiety and COVID-19 Anxiety. The Mediating Role of Religious Relational Identification and the Impact of Emotional Regulation Strategies	10
“We Need a Safe Place to Talk About How We Feel”: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Peer Grief Support Intervention for Youth in Foster Care	10
The End of Life Accompanied by COVID-19: A Qualitative Study on Grief During the First OutBreak In Peru (Part I)	10
Beyond the Pandemic: A Phenomenological Journey Through Grief in Bereaved Families Four Years Post-COVID-19 Restrictions	10
Trend of Suicide Research in South Asia: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Last Three Decades	9
Perceived and Internalized Stigma Towards Suicide and Their Roles in Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Chinese College Students	9
Protective Factors Associated With the Loss of a Child due to Oncological Illness: Systematic Review	9
Support After Suicide: A Thematic Analysis of Siblings’ Experience	9
How do People Use Social Media to Maintain Continuing Bonds in Bereavement? A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis	9
Between Lines and Loss: Reflections on Suicide Notes as a Textual Genre and as Messages	9
Religious Faith and Death Obsession: A Serial Mediation Model of Resilient Mindset, Resilience, Presence of Meaning in Life, and Self-Esteem in Türkiye	9
Risk Factors of Prolonged Grief Disorder	9
Continuing Bonds in the Existential, Phenomenological, and Cultural Study of Grief: Prolegomena	9
“The Dark Farewell to the Light of Life”: A Qualitative Study About Prenatal Loss	8
Well-Being and Academic Experiences in Bereaved University Students	8
Expectations in the Communication About Death and Dying From a Caregiver’s Perspective: The End-Of-Life Conversation – Expectation Scale – Caregiver (EOLC-E-c)	8
Consolation Without Religious Topoi: Thematic Analysis of References to “Afterlife” in Secular Eulogies in Communist Czechoslovakia (1948–1989)	8
Factors Associated With Higher Levels of Grief and Support Needs Among People Bereaved During the Pandemic: Results from a National Online Survey	8
Digital Death Humour: Exploring the Role of Humour in Death-Related Content on TikTok	8
Prolonged Grief and Perceived Mental and Physical Health: The Mediating Role of Meaning in Life	8
Exploring a Collective Grief Experience in the U.S.: Qualitative Findings From Older Parents Whose Only Child Has Died	8
Death Anxiety is Associated With Less Health Behavior for Individuals Low in Action Orientation	8
Analysis of Newspaper Reporting of Non-fatal Suicide Attempts During the Covid-19 Lockdown in Pakistan	8
Book Review: Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails and How We Can do Better BryanC. J. (2022). Rethinking suicide: Why prevention fails and how we can do better. New York, NY: Oxford University Pre	8
“A Tale of Two Cities”: Cemetery Heterotopia and Spatial Relations in Lagos City	8
The Effect of Emergency Nurses’ Psychological Resilience on Their Thanatophobic Behaviors: A Cross-Sectional Study	8
“What Does a Chatbot Know About Life?”: Ill and Healthy Adults’ Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence Integration in Advance Care Planning	8
Homicide-Suicide in Russia and Pakistan: Observations From Press Media Reports	8
Last Honors and Life Experiences of Bereaved Families in the Context of COVID-19 in Kashmir: A Qualitative Inquiry About Exclusion, Family Trauma, and Other Issues	8
Coda and Catharsis: Exploring the Emotional Challenges and Coping of Junior Palliative Physicians Through Cinematic Reflection	8
Family Coping With COVID-19: Unexpected Parental Loss and Surviving Parent Coping, Grief and Posttraumatic Growth Outcomes Based on Child Age	8
Exploring Post-Traumatic Growth Among Young Adults Coping With Parental Loss: The Role of Resilience and of Willingness to Seek Psychological Help	7
‘Losing a Part of Yourself’: How Women Grieve Their Close Friend’s Death	7
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Unassisted Suicide and Assisted Suicide Rates in French-Speaking Switzerland: Differences by Gender	7

Facebook and Perinatal Loss: Facebook Groups Use Among Parents from the U.S., France and Italy.	7
Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence, Personality, and grief in Bereaved Mothers	7
Suicide Risk Among Medical Students Associated With Loneliness, Burnout, and Depressive Symptoms	7
Perceptions of Friends of College Students with Suicidal Crises in South Korea: Factors Affecting Gatekeeping Behavior	7
Supporting Bereaved Caregivers: Adaptation of the REACH Behavioral Intervention	7
The Grieving Process of Opioid Overdose Bereaved Parents in Maryland	7
Natural Organic Reduction as a Means of Body Disposition	6
Book Review: The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change	6
Understanding the Use of Digital Remembrance Communities: An Integrated Perspective From UTAUT and DPM	6
“It doesn’t Always Have to Be an Expert”: Professionals’ Perceptions of Practical Aspects of the Existential Dimension of Care for People Approaching Death	6
Risk Factors in Japanese Drug Overdose Patients: Identifying Their Associations With Suicide Risk	6
Longitudinal Study of Bereavement Outcomes Among Palliative Caregivers Mourners: Psychological Profiles in Prolonged Grief and Psychopathology	6
Turkish Validity and Reliability Study of “Intensive Care Nurses” Attitude Scale Toward Brain Death and Organ Transplantation	6
The National Alliance for Care at Home: What’s in a Name? or What’s Not in a Name?	6
Perinatal Grief Counseling and Its Effect on Grief Levels in Women Who Underwent Pregnancy Termination: A Comparative Experimental Study	6
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Experiences of Stillbirth in North Queensland	6
The Relation Between Fear of COVID-19, Burnout Levels of Intensive Care Nurses	6
Death Anxiety Among Chronic Disease Patients: The Role of Spiritual Well-Being, Mental Health Issues, and Religious Beliefs	6
Family Caregiver’s Depression, Confidence, Satisfaction, and Burden Regarding End-of-Life Home Care for People With End-Stage Dementia	6
Conspiracy Illusion, Superstitions, and Death Anxiety of Older Adults Who Refused Covid-19 Vaccination in Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study on Their Beliefs	6
Death Education in Practice: A Scoping Review of Interventions, Strategies, and Psychosocial Impact	6
“We are Human too.”: The Challenges of Being an End-of-Life Doula	6
The Bereaved Detachment Experience: An NDE-like Phenomenon	6
Spousal Loss- Older Adults’ Gender-specific Experiences With Resilience in Pakistan’s Sindh Province	6
Coping With Hanged Ghosts: Rationalizing the Prevention of Suicide by Hanging in Early Modern China	6
Journalism and Euthanasia: A Scoping Review of the Literature	6
Conception and Experiences of Grief Among Ghanaian Children	6
Veterinary Technicians’ Experiences With Unusual End-of-Life Phenomena in Animals	6
Book Review: Making Meaning of Loss: Change and Challenge Across the Lifespan HayesRichard L. (2023). Making meaning of loss: Change and challenge across the lifespan. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. ISB	6
The Relationship Between Pre-Loss Grief, Preparedness and Psychological Health Outcomes in Relatives of People With Cancer	6
Why Informal Support Fails for Siblings Bereaved by a Drug-Related Death: A Qualitative and Interactional Perspective	6
Mortality Salience and Death Anxiety: The Moderating Roles of Self-Esteem and Religiosity	6
Social Support Protects Against the Negative Psychological Impacts of Death Anxiety, and Depression on Posttraumatic Growth in Cancer Patients	6
Civilian Casualty Management in World War II: A Case Study of Plymouth’s Halwell Street Mortuary	6
Journey Towards a Meaningful Life: Adaptation and Resilience in the Lives of Young Hindu Widows	6
Emotional Disorders, Distress Tolerance and Suicide Risk: A Mediation Model	6
Death Anxiety in the Context of Religion, Personality and Life Meanings	6
Demystifying Death: Reflections on End-of-Life Doula Work	6
The Relationship Between Perception of Good Death With Clinical Competence of End-Of-Life Care in Critical Care Nurses	6
Suicide in Later Life in Uruguay: A Suicide Note Analysis	5
Memento Mortuorum: The Necrosociality of Whole-Body Donor Remembrance Ceremonies	5
Perceptions of Healthcare Professionals and Caregivers on the Use of Opioids: Cultural Aspects in a Rural Context in Uruguay	5
Beliefs and Emotions Underpin Community Attitudes Towards Voluntary Assisted Dying in Australia	5
Cremation in Interwar Romania: The Case of the Potter’s Field	5
Loss of a Parent in Disney and Pixar Films: What We Can Learn?	5
Advance Care Directive Preferences in Women Veterans: A Snapshot	5
The Lived Experiences of Bereaved Filipino Families of the Deceased Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of the Death Literacy Index	5
Exploring Funeral Directors’ Experience and Perceived Impact of Providing Funeral Services During COVID-19 Restrictions	5
The Relationship Between Death Anxiety, Hope, and Psychological Well-Being in Individuals Diagnosed With Cancer	5
Death Anxiety and Interment Stress Family Interventions for Filipino Older Adults	5
Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of Utrecht Grief Rumination Scale	5
Further Hierarchies of Loss: Tracking Relationality in Pregnancy Loss Experiences	5
Intensive Care Nurses’ Perceptions of Futility and Good Death	5
Managing Death Anxiety Through Social Media: The Platformed Body and Digital Thanatography on Douyin	5
The Absence of Funeral Rites as a Risk Factor for the French Bereaved Population	5
Feasibility, Acceptability, and Effectiveness of Adding an Evidence-Based Parent/Caregiver Program for Bereaved Families to Usual Community-Based Services	5
Moderating Effect of Dyspnea in the Relationship Between Death Anxiety and Self-Management in COPD: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis	5
Earthquake Experiences of Nursing Students Residing in Earthquake Zone, the Disaster of the Century: A Qualitative Study	5
The Relationship Between Perceived Parental Competence and Bereavement Outcomes in Widows With Young Children	5
The National Donor Family Council: History, Activities, Achievements, and Legacies	5
Does Illness Perception Predict Hopelessness and Death Anxiety in Palliative Care Patients?	5
Death and Dying in a Digitalized World	5
The Relationship Between Attitudes Towards Caring for Dying Patients and Self Compassion in ICU Nurses	5
Bereavement During and Not During the Pandemic in Terms of Complicated Grief and Social Support	5
Context and Underlying Factors Influencing the Adaptation Process of Older Adults Facing Spousal Deaths: A Qualitative Study	5
Parents’ Level of COVID-19 Fear, Anxiety and Their Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Vaccination of Their Children	5
Exploring Death Anxiety Among Older Adults: An Integrative Review of Associated Factors and Interventions	5
Mental Health Continuum of Cancer Patient’s Caregivers: Resilience, Transformative Power of Suffering, and Hope	5
“There Was No Crib Notes on How to Grieve”: Finding Grief Space During and After a Juvenile Life Prison Sentence	5
Developmental Reengagement Without Depression: A Grounded Theory of Resilience Among Bereaved College Students	5
Who Tells the Family? Death Notification Practices in War Zones: A Study of Ukraine	5
Maladaptive Personality Characteristics, Coping and Situational Factors Predict Symptoms of Complicated Grief and Health Difficulties	5
Understanding the Mourning Rituals of Women Who Have Experienced Perinatal Loss: A Qualitative Study	4
Anatomy of Domestic Violence and Suicide in Kashmir	4
Book Review: Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Loss in England MiddlemissL. A. (2024). Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Loss in England.	4
Confronted With Death: Factors Affecting End of Life Decisions in the Intensive Care Unit	4
“It’s Just a Dog, Get over It”: Memorable Messages and Support Misalignment in Pet Bereavement	4
Book Review: Living with the Dead: How We Care for the Deceased	4
Practitioner Experiences of the Death of an Equine in an Equine-Assisted Services Program	4

“The Most Fantastic Thing is Coming Here as an Individual and Going to Bed as Part of a Group”: Participants’ Experiences From a Residential Course, for People With Advanced Cancer	4
The Suicidal Process and the Role of Negative Emotions in Suicidal Behavior: A Phenomenological Study Among the Baganda	4
The Relationship Between Post-Traumatic Growth and Care Burden in Caregivers of Home Based Palliative Care Patients After Palliative Care	4
People’s Perceptions and Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological-Longitudinal Study in Bangladesh	4
Book Review: Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City Ying LyeK.HengT. (Eds.) (2024). Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City. Oxfo	4
Death Anxiety and Associated Factors Among Oncology Nurses and Physicians	4
The Effect of COVID-19 Fear in Patients and Clinical Nurses on Night Nursing Care	4
Death and Dying Through the Lens of Jordanian Muslim Patients and Caregivers	4
Grief Instruments in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review	4
Clarification of Professional Terminology in Research on Counseling Professionals in Türkiye	4
Book Review: Improving Dying: Innovative Practices in Hospice and Palliative Care DokaK. J.TucciA. S. (Eds.). (2025). Improving dying: Innovative practices in hospice and palliative care. Hospice Foun	4
Room to Improve: An Audit of In-Hospital End-of-Life Care for Oncology Patients in a Tertiary Cancer Centre in Ireland During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Performance of Adult’s Death and Burial Among Ilaje People of Southwest Nigeria	4
From Death Distress to Flourishing Amid the Ongoing Türkiye Earthquakes: Future Anxiety, Post-traumatic Growth, and Trauma-Related Meaning Making	4
Deathbed Phenomena, Other End-of-Life Experiences and Their Effects in Palliative Care Teams: A Systematic Review	4
Prevalence and Correlates of Complicated Grief in Military Primary Care: Implications for Healthcare Providers	4
“Has Anyone Been There Now?”: An Interview Study on the Support Experiences and Unmet Needs of Informal Long-Distance Caregivers for Patients at the End of Life	4
Reconstructing Purpose: Parents’ Meaning in Life After Traumatic Child Loss	4
Symptoms of Prolonged Grief Disorder and Risk of Suicide: is There Anything in Common? A Network Analysis Approach	4
Interpretation about Death Rite of the Nias Ethnic and its Relation to Social Order	4
The Associations Between Death Anxiety, Supernatural Beliefs, Caring for Loved Ones and Attachments	4
Study of End-of-Life Paranormal Phenomena Recognized by Palliative Care Health Professionals in Portugal	4
Childhood Trauma and Suicidal Ideation in Emerging Adults: The Mediating Roles of Ego-Resiliency and Attitudes Toward the Mother	4
Loneliness and Death Anxiety: Differences Between Active and Bedridden Older Men	4
Book Review: Death, Society, and Human Experience R Kastenbaum and C.M. Moreman (2024). Death, society, and human experience (13th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. pages. $180.00. ISBN: 9781032021515. P	4
Corrigendum to The Stubborn Persistence of Grief Stage Theories	4
Forgiveness Among Malay Bereaved Parents after the Traumatic Loss of a Child	4
Fractures and Reconstruction: Social Identity Formation in Ecological Funeral Services in Guangdong and Hubei Provinces, China	4
The Psychopathological Predictors and Effects of Death Anxiety	4
Negative Life Changes in the Lives of a Working-Age Widows and Widowers and their Families After the Death of a Spouse- a Qualitative Study	4
Death Doulas’ Experiences With and Perspectives on Unusual End-Of-Life Phenomena	4
The Impact of Unnatural Death Stigmatization on Neighboring Property Prices: Propensity Score Matching and Difference-In-Differences Analysis	4
Assessing Suicidal Ideation in Young People With Depression: Factor Structure of the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire	4
Death and Dying: Emotional Responses, and Perceived Professional Competences Among Emergency, Hospital and Outpatient Healthcare Personnel: A Cross-Sectional Study	4
Book Review: Cicely Saunders and Total Pain: Holism, Narrative, and Silence at the End of Life Wood,J. (2025). Cicely Saunders and total pain: Holism, narrative, and silence at the end of life. Edinbu	4
Rituals of Passage and Persistence: Death and Cultural Identity Among the Mizos of Northeast India	4
Attitudes of Jordanian Nurses Toward Caring for Dying Patients	4
The Paths of Adjustment to Loss: Prolonged Grief Disorder and Posttraumatic Growth	4