Death Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Death Studies is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Grief Coach : Feasibility and acceptability of a text message program for bereavement support among grievers in the United Kingdom140
Exploring the process of adjustment following partner death in younger, widowed individuals: A qualitative systematic review64
“Life after him was just hell”: Young rural women’s lived experiences of widowhood in Rajasthan, India62
The political typologies of the dead in Zimbabwe41
Attitudes of future teachers toward death education: An analysis of the impact of multiple factors39
Continuing bonds and the posthumous child32
“I wanted to be proud of myself, not ashamed”: A qualitative investigation of suicide and self-injury inflection points21
A poetry of grief20
Resilience among bereaved college students: Indicators, facilitators, and barriers19
Community-based death preparation and education: A scoping review19
Are unmet needs driving requests for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)? A qualitative study of Canadian MAiD providers18
Death and grief in illustrated storybooks: An inventory of Swedish literature for young children16
Violence and suicide risk behavior in a nationally representative sample of youth aged 12-17: What does it mean to be at-risk?15
Hearing the missing voices: Child and adolescent grief15
The functions of the dreams of the deceased: A qualitative study of women bereaved by partner’s suicide15
“Giving voice to the voiceless”: An exploration of the grieving ritual for a therapy dog12
Actions taken and barriers encountered by professionals working with adults with intellectual disabilities who experience grief: a qualitative approach11
Coping and grief symptoms after parental loss in adolescence - a nationwide follow-up study11
Understanding public reactions to state security officials’ suicide cases in online news comments11
Female military service members and veterans: Understanding treatment seeking behavior and previous suicide risk among suicide decedents11
Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Obsession with COVID-19 Scale (BP-OCS) using a large University Sample in Brazil11
Aesthetic practices in bereavement A review of Seasons of Grief: Creative Interventions to Support Bereaved People edited by ClaudiaCoenen. London; Philadelphia, PA: Jes11
The stuff that nightmares are made of: Israeli dreams in times of the Israel-Hamas war11
Do mortality cues increase state autonomy? The moderating roles of trait autonomy, flexibility, and curiosity11
Drug-related death bereavement across the globe A review of The Routledge international handbook of drug-related death bereavement 11
A high tide of death: The American Civil War11
The gift of peer understanding and suicide bereavement support groups: A qualitative study10
The association of religion with advance care planning10
Who breaks bad news: Doctors, family caregivers or cancer patients? A qualitative study in Southern China10
Correlations between the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide rates and the non-assisted suicide rates at the municipal level in the Netherlands10
Polish adaptation of the quality of relationships inventory—Bereavement version10
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 regulation10
“Who is going to take care of these grandkids if I go?”: End-of-life planning by caregivers in grandparent-headed households9
The presence of death in Spanish education law (1812–2006)9
Perspectives on a good death: A comparative study of veterans and civilians9
Complication of Grief and PTSD among bereaved siblings in Israel9
The Turkish adaptation and psychometric characteristics of the COVID-19 Traumatic Stress Scale8
An online grief intervention to improve well-being and reduce clinical symptoms: a randomized controlled trial8
Self-destruction or surrender? Religiosity and active versus passive euthanasia8
Community workshops increase advance care planning knowledge, appointment of legal proxies and completion of end-of life written plans8
A qualitative study of factors involved in the helping behaviors of suicide prevention gatekeepers8
Never-ending funerals. Annual burials and reburials of victims of mass violence in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina*8
Experiences of Black South African widows regarding mourning rituals following the death of their spouses: Upholding cultural practices or violating human rights?8
Young widowhood: A qualitative study of sexuality after partner loss8
Grieving the loss of a pet: A qualitative systematic review7
Suicide among the elderly in France and Switzerland: What does the societal context tell us about the place of relatives?7
Death perceptions, grief, and distress in Ultra-Orthodox Jews who witnessed the 2021 Meron disaster7
The Two-Track Model of Dementia Grief and spousal response to illness and death7
Availability of bereavement support following traumatic pediatric death in a large metropolitan area7
Introduction of the French version of the Multidimensional Orientation Toward Dying and Death Inventory (MODDI-F/fre)7
Death attitudes and Chinese college students’ mental health: A latent profile analysis7
Psychosocial burden after the death of a child from cancer: Results of a bereaved parent survey7
Psycholinguistic, Stroop, and self-report measurements of death anxiety: A study of convergent validity7
The experiences of grandparents involved in the home-based end-of-life care of their grandchild with cancer: A qualitative secondary data analysis7
Social disabling: A qualitative study of interpersonal interaction patterns of shiduers in China7
Is it possible to find a bifactor structure in the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S)? Psychometric evidence in an Ecuadorian sample7
The relational landscape of bereavement after anticipated death: An interpretive model6
The experiences and support needs of Turkish individuals bereaved by suicide: An online qualitative investigation6
Can a global score be derived from the Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale-Short Form (ISLES-SF)? Empirical support for a bi-factor model6
Supporting palliative patients on their journeyA review of Palliative Treatment for Advanced Cancer Patients: Can Hope Be a Right? by Cynthia Pereirade Araújo. Springer 6
A multidisciplinary perspective on physician-assisted dying in primary care in The Netherlands: A narrative interview study6
Digital storytelling: Narrating meaning in bereavement6
Balancing roles: Teaching staff’s dilemma in supporting bereaved college students6
Who is really at risk? The contribution of death anxiety in suicide risk and loneliness among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic6
“Mum, when we die, what do you think happens?” A qualitative study of views on death education among Spanish families5
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed dying and grief: Will there be a surge of complicated grief?5
Feasibility of brief online gatekeeper training for Japanese university students: A randomized controlled trial5
"Martyrs do not die": Politics and security in Kurdish insurgents’ funerals5
Military-bereaved siblings’ growth and distress – Interplays between interpersonal factors and commemoration5
The experiences of nursing students participating in a student death doula service-learning program in palliative care settings: A qualitative study5
Perspectives on dying in severe and enduring eating disorders (SEEDs): A qualitative study among Dutch mental healthcare providers5
The suicide of Private Danny Chen: An interpersonal theory perspective5
Transformations and transitions: The social and political life of the dead5
Differences in university experiences, support seeking, and mental well-being in Australian university students according to bereavement status5
Digital doppelgänger5
Navigating autonomy and decision-making capacity: Legal and ethical considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying for individuals with mental disorders in Portugal5
Attitudes promoting coping with death anxiety among parents of children with disabilities5
Emotion regulation deficits across the spectrum of self-harm5
Factors associated with attitudes toward death and dying in the second half of life: A scoping review5
Toward a better assessment of coping with bereavement: Applicability to diverse experiences and conceptual structure of the coping with bereavement questionnaire5
Grief Impairment Scale: A biopsychosocial measure of grief-related functional impairment5
Bereavement photography, volunteering, and posttraumatic growth: A mixed-methods investigation4
“We are the forgotten grievers”: Bereaved family members’ experiences of support and mental ill-health following a road traffic collision4
Frequency of suicidal ideation inventory: A reliability generalization meta-analysis4
Personal growth in bereaved students: Associations with support, grief, and distress4
The stigmatization of suicide: A study of stories told by college students in China4
Death education and photovoice at school: A workshop with Italian high school students4
Social stigma of suicide in South Korea: A cultural perspective4
A 4-month prospective study of the relationship between emotional intelligence and suicide ideation in Spanish adolescents: The mediating role of positive and negative affect4
A review of Non-Communicable Diseases: A Compendium4
Posttraumatic growth following a drug-related death: A family perspective4
“They are not taking it seriously”: Constructing family dynamics in end-of-life care interactions in Hong Kong4
Perspectives on suicide among Chinese youth on internet platforms: A thematic analysis based on Comments from Bilibili users4
Echoes of the blast: A qualitative study of loss and adaptation among bereaved families of the 2020 Beirut explosion4
Key issues, challenges, and preferred supports for those bereaved by suicide: Insights from postvention experts4
MAiD as human connection: Stories and metaphors of physician providers’ existential lived experience4
Starving off death: Mortality salience impacts women’s body image and disordered eating4
Beyond “altruism motivates body donation”4
Family group conferences for suicidal adolescents: Promising results from naturalistic case study research4
Bereavement dyadic coping questionnaire: Development and validation4
When a parent dies: A scoping review of protective and risk processes for childhood bereavement4
Perinatal death, collective action and legislation against obstetric violence in Argentina4
Investigating the applicability of the Two-Track Model of Bereavement to a Southern sample of African American adults4
Mothers’ views on death education for children aged 4–64
Religio-cultural facilitators and barriers in decision-making on organ donation: The experiences of families of brain-dead patients in Iran4
The fearlessness about death scale’s efficacy for differentiating suicide attempts from non-suicidal self-injury, a meta-analysis3
Veteran suicide thoughts and attempts during the transition from military service to civilian life: Qualitative insights3
Factors associated with grief in informal carers of people living with Motor Neuron Disease: A mixed methods systematic review3
The indirect effect of generativity on fear of death through ego-integrity holds when controlling for spirituality3
Testing terror management theory in advanced cancer3
Readiness of a U.S. Black community to address suicide3
COVID-19 pandemic impact on funeral service workers’ work-related mental health3
Caregiver-child communication on parental loss in the context of the AIDS epidemic in Namibia3
The evidentiary potential of art after genocide3
Measuring the outcomes of support provided to people after a suicide or other sudden bereavement: A scoping review3
Suicidal intent disclosure among adult suicide decedents: Four age group comparisons3
Grief trajectories among bereaved parents after the 2011 Utøya terror attack: A qualitative analysis3
Depression among incarcerated persons following the death of a loved one: Does social support mitigate grief?3
Orchestrating death in contemporary France: When the juridico-medical scansion at the end of life produces new ontologies3
Survivors’ perspectives on saying goodbye: Implications for end-of-life engagement across the lifespan and grieving process3
Life in armed conflict: A phenomenological approach to examine the bereavement experiences of parents living in Indian-administered Kashmir3
How compassionate is your neighborhood? Results of a cross-sectional survey on neighborhood participation regarding serious illness, death, and loss3
Effects of death education interventions on cancer patients in palliative care: A systematic review and meta-analysis3
Qualities of the dying experience of persons who access medical assistance in dying: A scoping review3
Application of an accident approach to the study of acute suicidal episodes through repeated in-depth interviews3
Reimagining memorial spaces through digital technologies: A typology of CemTech3
The role of sense of coherence and emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and grief3
Non-disclosure of suicidal ideation in psychiatric inpatients: Rates and correlates3
Development of an online service for coping with spousal loss by means of human-centered and stakeholder-inclusive design: the case of LEAVES3
Traumatic experiences and resilience: Associations with mental health, death attitudes, and religion in university students3
The role of adverse childhood experiences in suicide among sexual minority undergraduate students3
The role of death-related advertisements in cell phone use while driving3
Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS): Psychometric study of validation of the Portuguese version3
Risk factors for dysfunctional grief and functional impairment for all causes of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning3
Validating the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in a Colombian sample3
Applying attachment theory to grief therapy through the therapeutic relationshipA review of Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy: The Clinician’s Guide to Foundations and Applications 2
Pandemic antigones: The role of women in shaping funeral practices in Chile2
Longitudinal examination of cognitive function in older adults after the death of a child2
Turkish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire: Validity, reliability and psychometric properties2
Response to Lyon: Oranges, apples and polarizing polemic2
Thoughts and emotions evoked by thinking about own death: American versus Japanese undergraduates2
The first casualty of COVID-19 for patients nearing death was human dignity: Understanding the experience of palliative care patients during the COVID-19 pandemic2
“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 care2
Professional bereavement photography for perinatal loss: A mixed-methods study2
Correction2
Knowing is half the battle: Regulating and appraising emotions co-protect from suicidal ideation2
Prolonged grief and posttraumatic growth among middle-aged and older widowed persons: A latent class analysis and testing for the role of social support2
When does disruption of meaning in bereavement become debilitating? Screening for deleterious outcomes with the ISLES-SF2
Human misconnection ? A response to Beuthin and Bruce on medical assistance in dying providers’ lived experience2
Death certification status in Eastern Mediterranean Region: A systematic review2
“I want my son to die before I do”: A phenomenological study on the views of mothers with disabled children about death after the 6 February 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye2
Worldviews about the self mediate the impact of immature and mature defense styles on posttraumatic symptoms in bereaved parents2
Community knowledge of voluntary assisted dying: a cross-sectional survey of the public in Queensland, Australia2
Assessing the fear of COVID-19 scale among health care workers in Israel: a psychometric validation study2
Experiences of grief-bereavement after a medically assisted death in Canada: Bringing death to life2
The stories bones tell. Collaboration between forensic teams and victims’ relatives in the interpretation and ritual accompaniment of human remains in Guatemala*2
Assistance in dying: A comparative look at legal definitions2
Companion animal bereavement: Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire2
Patterns and relationships of prolonged grief, post-traumatic stress, and depressive symptoms in Chinese shidu parents: Latent profile and network analyses2
Grief, mourning, and the body: Ritual attention to the death of victims of the dictatorship in Chile*2
Shared death experience or shared beliefs?2
The integrated process model of loss and grief - An interprofessional understanding2
Transnational grieving: The lived experience of Overseas Filipino Workers who lost their loved ones due to COVID-192
Caregiver behaviors associated with positive youth development among bereaved children2
Bereaved UK military families: A mixed methods study on the provision of practical and emotional support2
Capturing grief: Photovoice as a tool for learning and researching2
“It took so much of the humanness away”: Health care professional experiences providing care to dying patients during COVID-192
End-of-life treatment preferences and advanced care planning among older adults2
Unity strengthens and inhibits development: A focus group interview with volunteer adults in support programs for bereaved children and their family2
Statement of Retraction2
Continuing bonds or ongoing attachments? Exploring the distinction2
Psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in a US college sample2
Implicit or explicit self-associations with life and death? Predicting short-term self-injurious thoughts and behaviors among adolescents2
Transforming funeral practices: Rituality and necropower in mass death situations2
A family affair: Repeated interviews with people with dementia and a euthanasia wish and their families2
Reflecting on death: Priorities for living well2
The Inventory of Social Expectations in Bereavement: Development and psychometric validation of a new instrument2
‘Special death’: Living with bereavement by drug-related death in Ireland2
Age does matter for hospice care: Health care providers’ attitudes toward hospice care in Binzhou, China2
The experience of children and adolescents in the school setting a few years after losing a parent2
Understanding how volunteer companionship impacts those during the end of life: A realist evaluation2
Spanish adaptation of the Stillbirth Stigma Scale (SSS)2
Death and mourning in times of COVID-19. The experience of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa2
A systematic review of the relationship between death anxiety, capability for suicide, and suicidality2
Perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and hopelessness as predictors of future suicidal ideation in Spanish university students2
Bereaved parents’ and siblings’ healthcare needs, healthcare utilization, and satisfaction with healthcare services eight years after the 2011 Utøya terror attack2
Perceptions of internal and external continuing bonds in bereaved individuals with and without prolonged grief disorder2
The protective role of sense of coherence in resident physicians facing secondary trauma due to patient death in intensive care—A qualitative inquiry1
The current rituality of catholic death in Catalonia, a world of meanings1
“…So that only the memory of anger remains…”: An autoethnographic analysis of the loss and mourning of addicted parents1
Evaluating the relationship between family resilience and grief-related symptoms: A preliminary analysis1
Revising ruling discourses: The griefwork evidence-to-practice gap and the mental health workforce1
This is your brain on grief1
Rational suicide? Interviews with Swedish psychiatrists1
Navigating the edge: A personal account of madness, suicide, and recovery1
Death education’s “period of popularity”: Lessons for contemporary P-12 schools in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic1
"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 tourism1
Breaking the news of the violent death of a close person to children under 18 years of age: A qualitative interview study1
Applying terror management theory as a framework to understand the impact of heightened mortality salience on children, adolescents, and their parents: A systematic review1
To share or not to share? Evaluation of a strategic disclosure program for suicide attempt survivors1
Helping the helpers: Understanding information and support needs of caregivers in underserved communities1
Bereavement outcomes of carers of patients with high grade glioma: Experiences of support before and after the death1
The emotional management of death and absence by forensic anthropologists in Colombia and Peru*1
Examining grieving problem correlates of anticipation of the death vs. shock among overdose death and suicide bereaved adults1
Gatekeeping beliefs, intent, and behavior among homeless youth1
Non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil1
Exploring contemporary forms of aid in dying: An ethnography of euthanasia in Belgium and assisted suicide in Switzerland1
Intergenerational coping: Examining how caregiver and child coping relate to resilience in bereaved children1
Anxiety and COVID-19: Coronavirus Anxiety Scale scores in medical and non-medical personnel in urban hospitals in Guadalajara. A cross-sectional survey study1
Bereavement in the context of homelessness: A rapid review1
Death anxiety in connection to anxiety and depressive disorders: A meta-analysis on emotional distress in clinical and community samples1
Rebuilding wellbeing: Understanding the role of self-criticism, anger rumination, and death distress after the February 6, 2023, Türkiye Earthquake1
Developing a death literacy index1
Forced and chosen transfers for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) before and during the COVID 19 pandemic: A mixed methods study1
Mass Shootings Anxiety Scale: A preliminary psychometric study1
An analysis of the Painful and Provocative Events Scale: Some painful and provocative findings1
Disembodied ritual: An explorative study on the meanings of physical absence during funerals by bereaved in times of COVID-191
Suicidal ideation in university students in Lithuania amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective study with pre-pandemic measures1
End of life and death of residents: Experiences and practices of care facility directors in Portuguese residential care facilities1
Supporting bereaved students: Qualitative insights from Danish college student counselors1
“So, whose milk was it? … It became all of ours, together”: A relational autoethnographic study of an interactional human milk donation process through bereavement1
The mediating role of self-efficacy, social support, and hope in the relation between mental health and resilience among 2023 Türkiye earthquake survivors1
How the Dougy Center helps children and teens who are grieving1
“It turned out right for both of us”: A qualitative study about a preference for home death and actual place of death1
Peruvian thanatoscape and posthumous biographies of prisoners: dispersion and re-appropriation of undesirable corpses1
Measurement invariance of the Grief Facilitation Inventory with respect to youth gender, race, ethnicity, and age1
Individuals with higher suicide risk showed more anger and disgust during rest1
The social health domain of people bereaved by a drug-related death and associations with professional help: A cross-sectional study1
The meaning of patient deaths for professional caregivers: A quantitative construct validation1
Lifesaving turning points: First-person accounts of recovery after suicide attempt(s)1
Do fear of COVID-19 and religious coping predict depression, anxiety, and stress among the Arab population during health crisis?1
Dispositional optimism and suicide among trans and gender diverse adults1
Windmills and pediatric palliative care1
French-Canadian validation of the Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report (TGI-SR)1
Perinatal loss and parental loneliness: Narratives of late termination of pregnancy1
“We were made to mourn”: A meta-ethnographic synthesis of living through the loss of a child to cancer for Latinx families in the United States1
Helping others through loss1
Association between suicidal ideation and burnout: A meta-analysis1
How attachment style, mentalization and preparedness for death are associated with pre-loss grief symptoms’ severity: A network analysis study in caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients1
Talking about death when a parent with dependent children dies of cancer: A pilot study of the Family Talk Intervention in palliative care1
When residents die in Portuguese care facilities: The experiences and practices of care facility directors before and during the COVID-19 pandemic1
A scoping review of theories and models applied for grief and bereavement projects1
Are funeral homes in the United States safe spaces for sexual and gender minorities? A website content analysis1
Psychotherapists’ rated working alliance in an internet-based intervention for bereaved siblings1
Mass Death and Funerary Transition: The Meudon Railway Disaster (France, 1842)*1
Beyond bereavement: Identifying risk and protective factors for prolonged grief disorder1
Peer support experiences among Chinese parents who lost their only child: A qualitative study1
Adaptation of the COV19-QoL Scale to Turkish culture: Its psychometric properties in diagnosed and undiagnosed individuals1
The impact of social network change due to spousal loss: A qualitative study on experiences of older adults who are aging in place1
Perception of grief responses: Are maladaptive grief responses and the stages of grief considered normal?1
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