Death Studies

Article	Citations
Correlations between the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide rates and the non-assisted suicide rates at the municipal level in the Netherlands	73
The gift of peer understanding and suicide bereavement support groups: A qualitative study	67
Social disabling: A qualitative study of interpersonal interaction patterns of shiduers in China	48
Introduction of the French version of the Multidimensional Orientation Toward Dying and Death Inventory (MODDI-F/fre)	28
Psycholinguistic, Stroop, and self-report measurements of death anxiety: A study of convergent validity	26
Grief Coach : Feasibility and acceptability of a text message program for bereavement support among grievers in the United Kingdom	21
Who breaks bad news: Doctors, family caregivers or cancer patients? A qualitative study in Southern China	21
A poetry of grief	17
Aesthetic practices in bereavement	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
An online grief intervention to improve well-being and reduce clinical symptoms: a randomized controlled trial	16
Exploring the stigma of suicide in Malaysia: Lived experience perspectives	15
Violence and suicide risk behavior in a nationally representative sample of youth aged 12-17: What does it mean to be at-risk?	15
“Who is going to take care of these grandkids if I go?”: End-of-life planning by caregivers in grandparent-headed households	15
Balancing roles: Teaching staff’s dilemma in supporting bereaved college students	14
Death attitudes and Chinese college students’ mental health: A latent profile analysis	14
“Mum, when we die, what do you think happens?” A qualitative study of views on death education among Spanish families	14
Coping and grief symptoms after parental loss in adolescence - a nationwide follow-up study	14
Shared death experience or shared beliefs?	13
Community-based death preparation and education: A scoping review	13
Mothers’ views on death education for children aged 4–6	13
Applying attachment theory to grief therapy through the therapeutic relationshipA review of Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy: The Clinician’s Guide to Foundations and Applications	12
Frequency of suicidal ideation inventory: A reliability generalization meta-analysis	12
Grief trajectories among bereaved parents after the 2011 Utøya terror attack: A qualitative analysis	12
Transforming funeral practices: Rituality and necropower in mass death situations	11

The impact of heteropatriarchy and support on grief in sexual minorities: A qualitative study	11
Continuing bonds or ongoing attachments? Exploring the distinction	11
Grief, mourning, and the body: Ritual attention to the death of victims of the dictatorship in Chile*	11
The role of sense of coherence and emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and grief	11
Thoughts and emotions evoked by thinking about own death: American versus Japanese undergraduates	11
Unity strengthens and inhibits development: A focus group interview with volunteer adults in support programs for bereaved children and their family	11
Readiness of a U.S. Black community to address suicide	11
Turkish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire: Validity, reliability and psychometric properties	11
Survivors’ perspectives on saying goodbye: Implications for end-of-life engagement across the lifespan and grieving process	11
Windmills and pediatric palliative care	9
Age does matter for hospice care: Health care providers’ attitudes toward hospice care in Binzhou, China	9
Ethical judgment in assessing requests for medical assistance in dying in Canada and Quebec: What can we learn from other jurisdictions?	9
Assessing the fear of COVID-19 scale among health care workers in Israel: a psychometric validation study	9
Navigating mortality: A multidisciplinary approach to the epistemology and practice of death education	9
Factors associated with grief in informal carers of people living with Motor Neuron Disease: A mixed methods systematic review	9
Psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) in Brazil	8
Applying terror management theory as a framework to understand the impact of heightened mortality salience on children, adolescents, and their parents: A systematic review	8
How to prevent suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury? An analysis of adolescent typologies	8
Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death	8
To ventilate or not to ventilate: A qualitative analysis of physicians’ experience during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Disembodied ritual: An explorative study on the meanings of physical absence during funerals by bereaved in times of COVID-19	8
Cultural differences on baby loss experiences: A comparison of the US and New Zealand	8
Death before birth: An encounter between Prenatal Pedagogy and the Pedagogy of Death	7
Providing a voice to the experience of bereavement support at Mexican workplaces	7
Adult insecure attachment styles and suicidality: A meta-analysis	7
Navigating the edge: A personal account of madness, suicide, and recovery	7
What we said and what I wish we said: Regret during final conversations	7
Influencing factors of nurses’ short-term bereavement reactions after patient death	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
Turkish adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Grief Impairment Scale	7
The role of pre-sleep arousal in the connection between insomnia and suicide risk	7
In the wake of a boat: The politics of mourning the 18th of April 2015 shipwreck	6
What predicts suicidality among psychologists? An examination of risk and resilience	6
The impact of their role on telephone crisis support workers’ psychological wellbeing and functioning: Qualitative findings from a mixed methods investigation	6
Communication about euthanasia in Dutch nursing homes	6
Parents’ lived experience of support through their neonate’s end of life and grief journey: An interpretative phenomenology study	6
Passing through end-of-life suffering: Possible or not? Results from a qualitative inquiry	6
Supports for university counselors impacted by student suicide: A systematic review and thematic synthesis	6
Explaining suicidal ideation among divorced parents by coping strategies and personality characteristics: A mediation model	6
Ecological momentary assessment in prolonged grief research: Feasibility, acceptability, and measurement reactivity	6
Correlates of prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms in Brazilian COVID-19 bereaved adults	6
Cohort profile of FALCON: a prospective nationwide cohort of families with minor children who have lost a parent in Denmark in 2019–2021	6
Suicide-related communication and circumstances surrounding suicide: Study of police records in Slovenia	5
Applying the phenomenology of grief: An autoethnographic study	5
“As long as they remember me, I am alive”: Commemoration and memory through stickers	5
Reduced death anxiety as a mediator of the relationship between acute subjective effects of psychedelics and improved subjective well-being	5
Quality of life and loneliness post-bereavement: Results from a nationwide survey of bereaved older adults	5
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 mindfulness	5
The first 72 hours: Suicide loss survivor experiences with early responders	5

Mindfulness exercises reduce death anxiety and burnout in intensive care nurses	5
Construction of meaning in survivors of suicide loss: A Spanish translation and application of the Meaning in Loss Codebook	5
Proof of life: Human remains and memory in the Philippine Drug War	5
Grief participation rights and the social support hierarchy: Exploring the communicative role of the bereaved in a social support interaction	5
Consulting parents bereaved by childhood cancer: A qualitative study to improve bereavement services	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
The impact of a student death doula service-learning experience in palliative care settings on nursing students: A pilot mixed-methods study	5
Comparing social media engagement between women with suicidal ideation and those who have attempted suicide	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
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
Patients’ experiences and expectations of the General Practitioner’s role during bereavement care after losing a loved one: A qualitative study	5
Counselor preparedness to counsel grieving clients: Insights and implications	5
A high tide of death: The American Civil War	4
Transformations and transitions: The social and political life of the dead	4
Do mortality cues increase state autonomy? The moderating roles of trait autonomy, flexibility, and curiosity	4
COVID-19 pandemic impact on funeral service workers’ work-related mental health	4
Understanding how volunteer companionship impacts those during the end of life: A realist evaluation	4
Validating the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in a Colombian sample	4
Exploring the process of adjustment following partner death in younger, widowed individuals: A qualitative systematic review	4
Navigating autonomy and decision-making capacity: Legal and ethical considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying for individuals with mental disorders in Portugal	4
Hearing the missing voices: Child and adolescent grief	4
Death perceptions, grief, and distress in Ultra-Orthodox Jews who witnessed the 2021 Meron disaster	4
Experiences of Black South African widows regarding mourning rituals following the death of their spouses: Upholding cultural practices or violating human rights?	4
“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	4
End-of-life treatment preferences and advanced care planning among older adults	4
“We are the forgotten grievers”: Bereaved family members’ experiences of support and mental ill-health following a road traffic collision	4
Never-ending funerals. Annual burials and reburials of victims of mass violence in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina*	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
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
Emotion regulation deficits across the spectrum of self-harm	4
Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS): Psychometric study of validation of the Portuguese version	4
Posttraumatic growth following a drug-related death: A family perspective	4
The integrated process model of loss and grief - An interprofessional understanding	4
“So, whose milk was it? … It became all of ours, together”: A relational autoethnographic study of an interactional human milk donation process through bereavement	4
Psychosocial burden after the death of a child from cancer: Results of a bereaved parent survey	4
Factors associated with suicidal ideation among medical students during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru: A multicenter 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
Supporting bereaved students: Qualitative insights from Danish college student counselors	3
Mass Shootings Anxiety Scale: A preliminary psychometric study	3
A case report to understand the use of an evidence-based approach of prolonged grief therapy in Chinese culture	3
Developing a compassionate university: Insights from a longitudinal process evaluation	3
The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Psychometric properties and measurement invariance across 10 months	3
Factors associated with suicide risk among Brazilian graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Measurement invariance of the Grief Facilitation Inventory with respect to youth gender, race, ethnicity, and age	3
Revising ruling discourses: The griefwork evidence-to-practice gap and the mental health workforce	3
Maternal mental health, marital adjustment, and family support in the grieving process after a pregnancy loss	3
Missing pieces and body parts: On bodily integrity and political violence	3
Integration of disaster nursing, technology, and health policy in realizing community resilience	3
Risk and correlates of prolonged grief disorder in bereaved Chinese university students	3
Partner bereavement when parenting dependent children: What factors influence adjustment?	3
Evaluation of the death anxiety beliefs and behaviors scale in Iranian adolescents	3
Level of professional quality of life and coping with death competence in healthcare professionals exposed to perinatal loss: A cross-sectional study	3
“I know she’s there” meanings of continuing bonds for bereaved Costa Rican men: a qualitative study	3
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 care	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
Bereavement outcomes of carers of patients with high grade glioma: Experiences of support before and after the death	3
Accessing an assisted death from the UK: Navigating the legal ‘grey’ area	3
Meaning-making following loss among bereaved spouses during the COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)	3
Identifying suicide ideation in mental health application posts: A random forest algorithm	3
Cluster analysis of suicidal ideation and influencing factors among Spanish teachers	3
“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
Development and validation of the Earthquake Obsession Scale	2
Death and grief in illustrated storybooks: An inventory of Swedish literature for young children	2
Relational closeness– not parasociality– determines the intensity of grief responses to celebrity death	2
Attitudes promoting coping with death anxiety among parents of children with disabilities	2
Orchestrating death in contemporary France: When the juridico-medical scansion at the end of life produces new ontologies	2
Spanish adaptation of the Stillbirth Stigma Scale (SSS)	2
Transnational grieving: The lived experience of Overseas Filipino Workers who lost their loved ones due to COVID-19	2
Is COVID-19 loss more associated with prolonged grief disorder than other losses?	2
Companion animal bereavement: Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire	2
Mother Teresa—The formation of a saint	2
The stories bones tell. Collaboration between forensic teams and victims’ relatives in the interpretation and ritual accompaniment of human remains in Guatemala*	2
“A sign that I am not alone”: A grounded theory-informed qualitative study on spirituality after suicide bereavement	2
Is it possible to find a bifactor structure in the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S)? Psychometric evidence in an Ecuadorian sample	2
Posttraumatic growth among participating and non-participating organ donor families in grief support groups	2
Digital mourning: The transformative role of photography in contemporary grief practices	2
Young adults’ experiences with loss and grief during COVID-19	2

Are ‘time’ and ‘culture’ useful and necessary diagnostic requirements for ICD-11 Prolonged Grief Disorder? A Cross-national study	2
Negotiating the postvention situation: A grounded theory of NHS staff experiences when supporting their coworkers following a colleague’s suicide	2
"Martyrs do not die": Politics and security in Kurdish insurgents’ funerals	2
Barriers and solutions to equitable funeral care in the U.S. for the LGBTQIA+ community	2
Embodied memories - exploring memorial tattoos through the lens of terror management theory	2
Psychosocial factors associated with complicated grief in caregivers during COVID-19: Results from a preliminary cross-sectional study	2
The presence of death in Spanish education law (1812–2006)	2
Religio-cultural facilitators and barriers in decision-making on organ donation: The experiences of families of brain-dead patients in Iran	2
Suicidal intent disclosure among adult suicide decedents: Four age group comparisons	2
The indirect effect of generativity on fear of death through ego-integrity holds when controlling for spirituality	2
Do insecure attachment styles predict prolonged grief symptoms? Significant null findings	2
Social stigma of suicide in South Korea: A cultural perspective	2
Network analysis of prolonged grief disorder and anxiety symptoms among bereaved Chinese parents who lost their only child	2
Theories and concepts about society, dying, and bereavement commonly discussed in education about death, dying, and bereavement	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
The political typologies of the dead in Zimbabwe	2
Resilience among bereaved college students: Indicators, facilitators, and barriers	2
Continuing bonds of bereaved Muslims mothers with their young dead child	2
From theory to reality: Unraveling the development of mature death concept	2
Grief experiences of nurses who lose their first-degree relatives with the diagnosis of COVID-19: A qualitative study	2
Congenital loss: Loss of an immediate family member prior to or during one’s birth	2
Educating death. Children of five generations confronting dead and funerals	2
The psychological burden of bereavement in the general population of UK and Ireland	2
“You have to be mentally prepared for that moment”: Attitudes of the adolescent population to death and their educational implications	2
The Meaning in Loss protocol: A clinical trial of online grief therapy	2
The role of adverse childhood experiences in suicide among sexual minority undergraduate students	2
Reflecting on death: Priorities for living well	2
The association of religion with advance care planning	2
Bereaved UK military families: A mixed methods study on the provision of practical and emotional support	2
Navigating the paradox: Strategies utilized by pregnant widows in an attempt to reconcile life and death	2
The relational landscape of bereavement after anticipated death: An interpretive model	2
Understanding the complexity of suicide loss: PTSD, complex PTSD and prolonged grief disorder following suicide bereavement	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
A qualitative study of factors involved in the helping behaviors of suicide prevention gatekeepers	2
Perspectives on dying in severe and enduring eating disorders (SEEDs): A qualitative study among Dutch mental healthcare providers	2
Family members’ experiences of bereavement in the emergency department: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies	2
Challenges in pastoral care practice in euthanasia: A concept mapping study among Dutch protestant pastors	2
Adverse and benevolent childhood experiences moderate the association between PTSD symptoms and suicidal ideation	1
Risk perception, social distancing, and distress during COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the role of online counseling and perceived social support	1
Mass Death and Funerary Transition: The Meudon Railway Disaster (France, 1842)*	1
Bereavement in political conflict: Ideological meaning-making and dialogue	1
Parents’ lived experiences of losing adolescent children in the Korean Ferry Sewol disaster: Lessons through a qualitative meta-synthesis	1
Experiences of prognosis disclosure versus nondisclosure among family caregivers of persons with advanced cancer	1
Grief Impairment Scale: A biopsychosocial measure of grief-related functional impairment	1
E-learning as a tool of suicide prevention training: A meta-analysis and systematic review	1
Assistance in dying across borders: How the transnational circulations of persons, terms and themes influence the construction of a public problem	1
Grief and bereavement beliefs among U. S. mental health professionals and the general public	1
Bereavement affinities: A qualitative study of lived experiences of grief and loss	1
Remembering the life and dying days of a deceased close other: Memory recall and associations with loss context	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
Death in the Scottish curriculum: Denying or confronting?	1
Response to Lyon: Oranges, apples and polarizing polemic	1
Female military service members and veterans: Understanding treatment seeking behavior and previous suicide risk among suicide decedents	1
Examining grieving problem correlates of anticipation of the death vs. shock among overdose death and suicide bereaved adults	1
MAiD as human connection: Stories and metaphors of physician providers’ existential lived experience	1
The stigmatization of suicide: A study of stories told by college students in China	1
Oath-taking and resolution of issues of death accusation in Ebonyi state, South East Nigeria: evidence from bereaved family members	1
Spontaneous war weddings as a reaction to a national trauma: A terror management theory perspective	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
Professional bereavement photography for perinatal loss: A mixed-methods study	1
Does time heal all wounds? An investigation of time, grief, and attitudes toward death	1
Toward a necropolitics of uncertainty A review of The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe 2000–2020: Bones, Rumors & Spirits	1
“Perhaps something of beauty can grow:” experiences of care farming for grief	1
Suicide and the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study of discourse on an online pro-choice for suicide discussion forum	1
Death anxiety and burnout in intensive care unit specialists facing the COVID-19 outbreak: The mediating role of obsession with COVID-19 and coronaphobia	1
Pre-loss grief experiences of adults when someone important to them is at end-of-life: A qualitative systematic review	1
Exploring posttraumatic growth in individuals bereaved by suicide: A secondary data analysis of a national survey	1
Child loss and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults: The moderating role of community care service	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
Embodied existence: Description and meaning of memorial tattoos in mothers experiencing perinatal and neonatal loss	1
Community workshops increase advance care planning knowledge, appointment of legal proxies and completion of end-of life written plans	1
Measuring the outcomes of support provided to people after a suicide or other sudden bereavement: A scoping review	1
Circumstances of the death and associated risk factors for severity and impairment of COVID-19 grief	1
Death and mourning in times of COVID-19. The experience of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa	1
The ideal and the real: Patient and bereaved family caregiver perspectives on the significance of place of death	1
Risk factors for dysfunctional grief and functional impairment for all causes of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning	1
Memorial playgrounds: Special ways of coping with extreme loss	1
Dying for help: How mortality salience impacts perceptions of victims	1
Continuing bonds in parents after a loss in pregnancy, or a death at or shortly after birth: A population-based study	1
Unsettling forensics: novel forms of necro-governmentality and alternative knowledge practices in Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste	1
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
Misrepresentation: A final response to Bruce and Beuthin on Medical Assistance in Dying	1
Grief and bereavement beliefs and their associations with death anxiety and complicated grief in a U.S. college student sample	1
The paradox of awareness of death in parenthood transition—A qualitative study	1
The European Grief Conference, Copenhagen 2022: An effort to unite the field of bereavement care in Europe	1
Prolonged grief disorder: A bibliometric analysis	1
Overwhelming and unjust: A qualitative study of fathers’ experiences of grief following neonatal death	1
Funeral arrangements requested by suicide decedents in Shanghai and Wuhan, China	1
The functions of the dreams of the deceased: A qualitative study of women bereaved by partner’s suicide	1
The experience of children and adolescents in the school setting a few years after losing a parent	1
Perspectives on a good death: A comparative study of veterans and civilians	1
Correction	1
Beyond pain and sorrow: Dysphemistic use in wartime funeral cards	1