Death Studies

Article	Citations
The relationship between fear of COVID-19 and mental health problems: A meta-analysis	140
Pandemic Grief Scale: A screening tool for dysfunctional grief due to a COVID-19 loss	74
Circumstances of the death and associated risk factors for severity and impairment of COVID-19 grief	57
Risk factors for dysfunctional grief and functional impairment for all causes of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning	56
Culture and grief: Ethnographic perspectives on ritual, relationships and remembering	46
COVID-19 Phobia in the United States: Validation of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-SE)	43
Are deaths from COVID-19 associated with higher rates of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) than deaths from other causes?	39
Do fear of COVID-19 and religious coping predict depression, anxiety, and stress among the Arab population during health crisis?	39
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the fear of COVID-19 scale in seven Latin American countries	32
Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: New psychometric evidence for the Spanish version based on CFA and IRT models in a Peruvian sample	27
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed dying and grief: Will there be a surge of complicated grief?	21
Non-disclosure of suicidal ideation in psychiatric inpatients: Rates and correlates	20
Work status, death anxiety and psychological distress during COVID-19 pandemic: Implications of the terror management theory	19
Developing a death literacy index	19
Experiences of grief-bereavement after a medically assisted death in Canada: Bringing death to life	19
The existential dimension of the pandemic: Death attitudes, personal worldview, and coronavirus anxiety	18
Assistance in dying: A comparative look at legal definitions	17
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	17
Understanding wellbeing and death obsession of young adults in the context of Coronavirus experiences: Mitigating the effect of mindful awareness	16
Grieving the loss of a pet: A qualitative systematic review	16
Adaptation and evaluation of COVID-19 related Psychological Distress Scale Turkish form	16
‘Special death’: Living with bereavement by drug-related death in Ireland	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	15
Adaptation of the Cuban version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale	15
Prevalence and correlates of coronavirus anxiety in Germany: Results of a nationally representative survey	15

Adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale in the general Colombian population	13
The experience of divine struggle following child loss: The Case of Israeli bereaved Modern-Orthodox parents	12
The fear of the COVID-19 Scale: validation in the Portuguese general population	12
Caregiver behaviors and childhood maladaptive grief: Initial validation of the Grief Facilitation Inventory	12
Measuring dysfunctional grief due to a COVID-19 loss: A Turkish validation study of the Pandemic Grief Scale	11
Mediating role of positivity in the relationship between state anxiety and problematic social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Exploring contemporary forms of aid in dying: An ethnography of euthanasia in Belgium and assisted suicide in Switzerland	11
Death anxiety and burnout in intensive care unit specialists facing the COVID-19 outbreak: The mediating role of obsession with COVID-19 and coronaphobia	11
Perception of grief responses: Are maladaptive grief responses and the stages of grief considered normal?	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	11
When college students grieve: New insights into the effects of loss during emerging adulthood	11
Adaptation of the COV19-QoL Scale to Turkish culture: Its psychometric properties in diagnosed and undiagnosed individuals	11
Grief Impairment Scale: A biopsychosocial measure of grief-related functional impairment	11
“Finding a safe space”: A qualitative study of what makes help helpful for adolescents bereaved by suicide	10
Who is really at risk? The contribution of death anxiety in suicide risk and loneliness among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Psychosocial factors associated with complicated grief in caregivers during COVID-19: Results from a preliminary cross-sectional study	10
Emotion regulation deficits across the spectrum of self-harm	10
The stigmatization of suicide: A study of stories told by college students in China	10
Adapting and validating the coronavirus-19 phobia scale (C19P-S) in Korea	9
Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Obsession with COVID-19 Scale (BP-OCS) using a large University Sample in Brazil	9
Death education and photovoice at school: A workshop with Italian high school students	8
Methodological weakness of the death-word-fragment task: Alternative implicit death anxiety measures	8
The effect of professional education on medical and nursing students’ attitudes toward death	8
Community-based death preparation and education: A scoping review	8
Psychometric validation of the French version of the Suicidal Ideation Attributes Scale (SIDAS-FR)	8
Forced and chosen transfers for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) before and during the COVID 19 pandemic: A mixed methods study	8
The Two-Track Model of Dementia Grief and spousal response to illness and death	8
Turkish Version of the Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report (TGI-SR): Validity and reliability	8
Pregnancy loss experiences of couples in a phenomenological study: Gender differences within the Turkish sociocultural context	8
Rebuilding wellbeing: Understanding the role of self-criticism, anger rumination, and death distress after the February 6, 2023, Türkiye Earthquake	8
Unfinished business and self-blaming emotions among those bereaved by a COVID-19 death	7
Death education’s “period of popularity”: Lessons for contemporary P-12 schools in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Prolonged grief and posttraumatic growth among middle-aged and older widowed persons: A latent class analysis and testing for the role of social support	7
Key issues, challenges, and preferred supports for those bereaved by suicide: Insights from postvention experts	7
Overwhelming and unjust: A qualitative study of fathers’ experiences of grief following neonatal death	7
Thinking for healing: The role of mentalization deficits as moderator in the link between complicated grief and suicide ideation among suicide-loss survivors	7
The social health domain of people bereaved by a drug-related death and associations with professional help: A cross-sectional study	7
Posttraumatic growth following a drug-related death: A family perspective	7
Social stigma of suicide in South Korea: A cultural perspective	7
Reduced death anxiety as a mediator of the relationship between acute subjective effects of psychedelics and improved subjective well-being	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
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 ideal and the real: Patient and bereaved family caregiver perspectives on the significance of place of death	6
The impact of continuing bonds following bereavement: A systematic review	6
Factors associated with suicidal ideation among medical students during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru: A multicenter study	6
Are unmet needs driving requests for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)? A qualitative study of Canadian MAiD providers	6
Implicit measure of suicidal ideation in patients with depression	6
Suicidality Among College Students in Spain: Prevalence and Associations With Substance Use, Social Support, and Resilience	6

Do interpersonal events buffer or worsen depressive and grief related symptoms in people bereaved through suicide?	6
Assessment of psychometric characteristics of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in patients with preexisting psychiatric disorders	6
The “men in grief” phenomenon among suicide bereaved Chinese men in Hong Kong	6
Young adults’ experiences with loss and grief during COVID-19	6
Prolonged grief disorder among bereaved survivors after the 2011 Van Earthquake in Turkey	6
Suicidal ideation in university students in Lithuania amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective study with pre-pandemic measures	6
Ethical judgment in assessing requests for medical assistance in dying in Canada and Quebec: What can we learn from other jurisdictions?	6
Beyond a traumatic loss: The experiences of mourning alone after parental death during COVID-19 pandemic	6
The role of sense of coherence and emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and grief	5
The lived experience of bereaved Iranian families with COVID-19 grief	5
Bereavement in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychometric analysis of the Pandemic Grief Scale-Urdu Version (PGS-UV)	5
The relational landscape of bereavement after anticipated death: An interpretive model	5
Bereavement affinities: A qualitative study of lived experiences of grief and loss	5
The suicide of Private Danny Chen: An interpersonal theory perspective	5
Effectiveness of Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) in Lithuania	5
Counselor preparedness to counsel grieving clients: Insights and implications	5
How we continue bonds with deceased persons: The proximity-seeking behavior scale	5
“Perhaps something of beauty can grow:” experiences of care farming for grief	5
Forgive but not forget: From self-forgiveness to posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors	5
French-Canadian validation of the Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report (TGI-SR)	5
Psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in a US college sample	5
Assistance in dying across borders: How the transnational circulations of persons, terms and themes influence the construction of a public problem	5
Attitudes promoting coping with death anxiety among parents of children with disabilities	5
Quality of life and loneliness post-bereavement: Results from a nationwide survey of bereaved older adults	5
Assistance in dying: Conditions for international comparison	5
Digital storytelling: Narrating meaning in bereavement	5
The meaning of patient deaths for professional caregivers: A quantitative construct validation	5
The effectiveness of a brief intervention to increase the likelihood of advance care planning among college students	4
Predictive factors associated with death depression in women with breast cancer	4
What predicts suicidality among psychologists? An examination of risk and resilience	4
Non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil	4
Traumatic experiences and resilience: Associations with mental health, death attitudes, and religion in university students	4
Personal growth in bereaved students: Associations with support, grief, and distress	4
Experiences of Black South African widows regarding mourning rituals following the death of their spouses: Upholding cultural practices or violating human rights?	4
Spirituality in Brazilian family caregivers of patients with cancer from the end-of-life care to bereavement	4
Public stigma toward prolonged grief and COVID-19 bereavement: A vignette-based experiment	4
Grief and bereavement beliefs among U. S. mental health professionals and the general public	4
The impact of anencephaly on parents: A mixed-methods study	4
Revising ruling discourses: The griefwork evidence-to-practice gap and the mental health workforce	4
Testing terror management theory in advanced cancer	4
The integrated process model of loss and grief - An interprofessional understanding	4
Embodied meaning making: Memorial tattoos as a visual expression of grief	4
Partner bereavement when parenting dependent children: What factors influence adjustment?	4
Mortality salience in an offline and online setting	4
Slovak adaptation of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale	4
Death is the cause of my predicament: A cross-cultural study of death-related personal names in Nigeria	4
Factors associated with grief in informal carers of people living with Motor Neuron Disease: A mixed methods systematic review	4
Feasibility of brief online gatekeeper training for Japanese university students: A randomized controlled trial	4
Older individuals’ perceptions of a good death: A systematic literature review	4
Pre-loss grief experiences of adults when someone important to them is at end-of-life: A qualitative systematic review	3
The parental role before and after SIDS	3
Grief as an effective storytelling tool	3
Childhood maltreatment influences suicidal behavior: Rumination mediates and regulatory emotional self-efficacy moderates	3
Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters, suicidal ideation, and social support in a clinical adolescent sample	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
Unity strengthens and inhibits development: A focus group interview with volunteer adults in support programs for bereaved children and their family	3
Assessing the fear of COVID-19 scale among health care workers in Israel: a psychometric validation study	3
Beyond “altruism motivates body donation”	3
Perception of death and preference for end-of-life care among Asian Buddhists living in Montreal, Canada	3
Suicide among the elderly in France and Switzerland: What does the societal context tell us about the place of relatives?	3
Protective and risk factors in the grieving process among cancer-bereaved parents: A qualitative study	3
The first 72 hours: Suicide loss survivor experiences with early responders	3
Bereavement in political conflict: Ideological meaning-making and dialogue	3
Life is but a digital memory	3
Validating the Suicide Behavior Questionnaire-Revised among Filipino adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Evaluating the relationship between family resilience and grief-related symptoms: A preliminary analysis	3
Googling for suicide in Croatia: A mixed-methods study	3
Qualities of the dying experience of persons who access medical assistance in dying: A scoping review	3
Perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and hopelessness as predictors of future suicidal ideation in Spanish university students	3
Perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness influence the childhood polyvictimization and suicide ideation association among Hispanic undergraduates	3
Investigating the applicability of the Two-Track Model of Bereavement to a Southern sample of African American adults	3
Maternal grief in cross-cultural context: Selective neglect, replaceable infants and lifesaving names	3
Who breaks bad news: Doctors, family caregivers or cancer patients? A qualitative study in Southern China	3
Operationalizing strategic objectives of suicide prevention policy: Police-led LOSST LIFFE model	3
TAPS Suicide Postvention ModelTM: A comprehensive framework of healing and growth	3
“Doing” healthcare at end-of-life: Identity tensions, negotiations, and conflicts	3
Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Grief Impairment Scale	3
Psychometric properties, stability, and predictive validity of the Korean version of the Prolonged Grief Disorder Scale (PG-13-K): A longitudinal study among bereaved Koreans	3
To share or not to share? Evaluation of a strategic disclosure program for suicide attempt survivors	3
Competing expectations: Advance care planning from the perspectives of doctors and nurses in the South-East Asian context	3

Bereavement photography, volunteering, and posttraumatic growth: A mixed-methods investigation	3
Outcomes of the grief and communication family support intervention on parent and child psychological health and communication	3
A systematic review of the relationship between death anxiety, capability for suicide, and suicidality	3
Development and initial test of the self-report grief and bereavement assessment	3
MAiD as human connection: Stories and metaphors of physician providers’ existential lived experience	3
Cannabis use and suicide risk among Gulf War veterans	3
“This pregnancy makes sense”: Experiences of women who have decided to continue pregnancy after lethal fetal diagnosis	3
Family resilience, social support, and family coherence among Jewish, Muslim, and Druze widows who lost their spouses to sudden death	2
Identifying suicide ideation in mental health application posts: A random forest algorithm	2
Examining grieving problem correlates of anticipation of the death vs. shock among overdose death and suicide bereaved adults	2
Belonging to a community of care: Mothers’ experiences of online peer support groups for parents having lost a child with congenital heart defects	2
Professional bereavement photography for perinatal loss: A mixed-methods study	2
Are funeral homes in the United States safe spaces for sexual and gender minorities? A website content analysis	2
“I grieve because I loved her:” Bereaved parents’ perceptions of a mindfulness-based retreat	2
A compassionate university for serious illness, death, and bereavement: Qualitative study of student and staff experiences and support needs	2
Shared death experience or shared beliefs?	2
Exploring the process of adjustment following partner death in younger, widowed individuals: A qualitative systematic review	2
Impact of a teacher-training MOOC on the Pedagogy of Death during the pandemic	2
Turkish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire: Validity, reliability and psychometric properties	2
“Mum, when we die, what do you think happens?” A qualitative study of views on death education among Spanish families	2
Reliability and validity of the Suicide Cognitions Scale-Revised (SCS-R) in emerging adulthood in Turkey	2
Starving off death: Mortality salience impacts women’s body image and disordered eating	2
Qur’an course teachers’ views on death education for children aged 4–6	2
Oath-taking and resolution of issues of death accusation in Ebonyi state, South East Nigeria: evidence from bereaved family members	2
Circumstances affecting patients’ euthanasia or medically assisted suicide decisions from the perspectives of patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals: A qualitative systematic review	2
Intentional self-poisoning with medications: Occurrence, recurrence and suicide deaths	2
Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the fear of COVID-19 scale in Peruvian medical students	2
Association between suicidal ideation and burnout: A meta-analysis	2
Psychotherapists’ rated working alliance in an internet-based intervention for bereaved siblings	2
Applying terror management theory as a framework to understand the impact of heightened mortality salience on children, adolescents, and their parents: A systematic review	2
Depression among incarcerated persons following the death of a loved one: Does social support mitigate grief?	2
Psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) in Brazil	2
Grief trajectories among bereaved parents after the 2011 Utøya terror attack: A qualitative analysis	2
The ADEC handbook of thanatology, 3rd edition	2
Orchestrating death in contemporary France: When the juridico-medical scansion at the end of life produces new ontologies	2
“Life after him was just hell”: Young rural women’s lived experiences of widowhood in Rajasthan, India	2
Mindfulness exercises reduce death anxiety and burnout in intensive care nurses	2
The presence of death in Spanish education law (1812–2006)	2
The suicide support group as a signifying agent and emotion transformer: A contribution from a micro-sociological perspective	2
Daughters’ experiences of maternal bereavement during adolescence: A scoping review	2
The experiences of nursing students participating in a student death doula service-learning program in palliative care settings: A qualitative study	2
Meaning-making following loss among bereaved spouses during the COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)	2
Attitude toward death, not religious commitment mediates the relationship between political ideology and attitudes toward life extension	2
Developing a theoretically grounded, digital, ecological momentary intervention for parental bereavement care using the ORBIT model—Phase 1	2
Preparedness for caregiving and preparedness for death: Associations and modifiable thereafter factors among family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer in specialized home care	2
Death anxiety in connection to anxiety and depressive disorders: A meta-analysis on emotional distress in clinical and community samples	2
Bereavement outcomes of carers of patients with high grade glioma: Experiences of support before and after the death	2
Perinatal loss and parental loneliness: Narratives of late termination of pregnancy	2
The indirect effect of generativity on fear of death through ego-integrity holds when controlling for spirituality	2
Disembodied ritual: An explorative study on the meanings of physical absence during funerals by bereaved in times of COVID-19	2
Mental imagery and anxiety toward death in adolescents	2
Prolonged grief, emotion regulation and loss-related factors: An investigation based on cognitive and behavioral conceptualization	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
A multidisciplinary perspective on physician-assisted dying in primary care in The Netherlands: A narrative interview study	2
Validation of an ultra-short version of the posttraumatic growth inventory in Colombian adults exposed to COVID-19	2
Death attitudes and Chinese college students’ mental health: A latent profile analysis	2
Negotiating the postvention situation: A grounded theory of NHS staff experiences when supporting their coworkers following a colleague’s suicide	2
Congenital loss: Loss of an immediate family member prior to or during one’s birth	2
“Remarried military widows” grief in light of social policy upheavals	2
Prolonged grief disorder: A bibliometric analysis	2
“It took so much of the humanness away”: Health care professional experiences providing care to dying patients during COVID-19	1
Resilience among bereaved college students: Indicators, facilitators, and barriers	1
Introduction of the French version of the Multidimensional Orientation Toward Dying and Death Inventory (MODDI-F/fre)	1
Lifesaving turning points: First-person accounts of recovery after suicide attempt(s)	1
Balancing roles: Teaching staff’s dilemma in supporting bereaved college students	1
"People aren’t happy to see refugees coming to Switzerland. They don’t like assisted suicide for foreigners": Organizations’ perspectives regarding the right-to-die and suicide tourism	1
Sense making in the wake of familial death: “I continue to work through those feelings”	1
Gatekeeping beliefs, intent, and behavior among homeless youth	1
Saying kaddish: Meaning-making and continuing bonds in American Jewish mourning ritual	1
“We are the forgotten grievers”: Bereaved family members’ experiences of support and mental ill-health following a road traffic collision	1
Application of an accident approach to the study of acute suicidal episodes through repeated in-depth interviews	1
End-of-life treatment preferences and advanced care planning among older adults	1
The experience of children and adolescents in the school setting a few years after losing a parent	1
Perspectives on dying in severe and enduring eating disorders (SEEDs): A qualitative study among Dutch mental healthcare providers	1
The Turkish adaptation and psychometric characteristics of the COVID-19 Traumatic Stress Scale	1
Examining optimism and flourishing as protective factors of suicidality across the adult lifespan: A cross-sectional investigation in three Spanish age groups	1
Depressed adolescents’ exposure to suicide attempts and suicide loss	1
Breaking the news of the violent death of a close person to children under 18 years of age: A qualitative interview study	1
Psychometric properties of the German version of the Pre-loss Grief Questionnaire (PG-12-R)	1
Worldviews about the self mediate the impact of immature and mature defense styles on posttraumatic symptoms in bereaved parents	1
Grief, mourning, and the body: Ritual attention to the death of victims of the dictatorship in Chile*	1
Bereaved UK military families: A mixed methods study on the provision of practical and emotional support	1
Rurality, reasons for living, and suicidal ideation among Australian men	1
Knowing is half the battle: Regulating and appraising emotions co-protect from suicidal ideation	1
“Giving voice to the voiceless”: An exploration of the grieving ritual for a therapy dog	1
Mothers’ views on death education for children aged 4–6	1
Polish adaptation of the quality of relationships inventory—Bereavement version	1
When residents die in Portuguese care facilities: The experiences and practices of care facility directors before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
“Who is going to take care of these grandkids if I go?”: End-of-life planning by caregivers in grandparent-headed households	1
A political dimension of grief: Individual and social healing after conflict	1
The impact of social network change due to spousal loss: A qualitative study on experiences of older adults who are aging in place	1
The role of adverse childhood experiences in suicide among sexual minority undergraduate students	1
Death certification status in Eastern Mediterranean Region: A systematic review	1
Shock, anger and bad deaths in Lihir: A reanalysis of grieving in Papua New Guinea	1
Family group conferences for suicidal adolescents: Promising results from naturalistic case study research	1