Death Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Death Studies is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social disabling: A qualitative study of interpersonal interaction patterns of shiduers in China79
Introduction of the French version of the Multidimensional Orientation Toward Dying and Death Inventory (MODDI-F/fre)52
Psycholinguistic, Stroop, and self-report measurements of death anxiety: A study of convergent validity39
Who breaks bad news: Doctors, family caregivers or cancer patients? A qualitative study in Southern China24
Aesthetic practices in bereavement21
Coping and grief symptoms after parental loss in adolescence - a nationwide follow-up study19
A poetry of grief19
“Who is going to take care of these grandkids if I go?”: End-of-life planning by caregivers in grandparent-headed households17
Exploring the stigma of suicide in Malaysia: Lived experience perspectives17
An online grief intervention to improve well-being and reduce clinical symptoms: a randomized controlled trial16
Violence and suicide risk behavior in a nationally representative sample of youth aged 12-17: What does it mean to be at-risk?16
Mothers’ views on death education for children aged 4–616
“Mum, when we die, what do you think happens?” A qualitative study of views on death education among Spanish families16
End-of-life care volunteers’ initial motivational profile and their death anxiety: A latent profile analysis15
Correlations between the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide rates and the non-assisted suicide rates at the municipal level in the Netherlands14
The gift of peer understanding and suicide bereavement support groups: A qualitative study14
Death attitudes and Chinese college students’ mental health: A latent profile analysis14
Community-based death preparation and education: A scoping review13
Grief Coach : Feasibility and acceptability of a text message program for bereavement support among grievers in the United Kingdom12
Supporting palliative patients on their journey12
Balancing roles: Teaching staff’s dilemma in supporting bereaved college students11
Grief, mourning, and the body: Ritual attention to the death of victims of the dictatorship in Chile*11
Shared death experience or shared beliefs?11
Transforming funeral practices: Rituality and necropower in mass death situations10
The impact of heteropatriarchy and support on grief in sexual minorities: A qualitative study10
The phenomenon of bereavement anniversary reactions: An integrative systematic review10
Readiness of a U.S. Black community to address suicide10
Factors associated with grief in informal carers of people living with Motor Neuron Disease: A mixed methods systematic review10
Assessing the fear of COVID-19 scale among health care workers in Israel: a psychometric validation study9
Continuing bonds or ongoing attachments? Exploring the distinction9
Thoughts and emotions evoked by thinking about own death: American versus Japanese undergraduates9
Grief trajectories among bereaved parents after the 2011 Utøya terror attack: A qualitative analysis9
Age does matter for hospice care: Health care providers’ attitudes toward hospice care in Binzhou, China9
Frequency of suicidal ideation inventory: A reliability generalization meta-analysis8
Survivors’ perspectives on saying goodbye: Implications for end-of-life engagement across the lifespan and grieving process8
Relationship between lifestyle changes, psychological well-being, and grief impairment in elderly after death of spouse8
Unity strengthens and inhibits development: A focus group interview with volunteer adults in support programs for bereaved children and their family8
Windmills and pediatric palliative care8
Turkish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire: Validity, reliability and psychometric properties8
Applying attachment theory to grief therapy through the therapeutic relationship8
Navigating the edge: A personal account of madness, suicide, and recovery7
Death before birth: An encounter between Prenatal Pedagogy and the Pedagogy of Death7
Turkish adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Grief Impairment Scale7
Navigating mortality: A multidisciplinary approach to the epistemology and practice of death education7
How to prevent suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury? An analysis of adolescent typologies7
Reflecting on the concept of death: A qualitative investigation of the experiences among early childhood education teachers7
Applying terror management theory as a framework to understand the impact of heightened mortality salience on children, adolescents, and their parents: A systematic review7
Explaining suicidal ideation among divorced parents by coping strategies and personality characteristics: A mediation model7
Effectiveness of the death education in Chinese nurses: A mixed method study7
Disembodied ritual: An explorative study on the meanings of physical absence during funerals by bereaved in times of COVID-197
Cultural differences on baby loss experiences: A comparison of the US and New Zealand7
Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death7
Providing a voice to the experience of bereavement support at Mexican workplaces7
In the wake of a boat: The politics of mourning the 18th of April 2015 shipwreck7
To ventilate or not to ventilate: A qualitative analysis of physicians’ experience during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic7
Adult insecure attachment styles and suicidality: A meta-analysis6
What predicts suicidality among psychologists? An examination of risk and resilience6
Knowledge production in participatory grief research: A dialogical theoretical approach6
Assessing prioritization of a good death across Brazil, Italy, Japan, and the United States: A psychometric evaluation6
I occasionally wear his huge sweaters… but I often prefer not to think about it: Bereaved children talking and not talking about parental loss6
Ecological momentary assessment in prolonged grief research: Feasibility, acceptability, and measurement reactivity6
What we said and what I wish we said: Regret during final conversations6
Parents’ lived experience of support through their neonate’s end of life and grief journey: An interpretative phenomenology study6
Influencing factors of nurses’ short-term bereavement reactions after patient death6
Stigmatization in the pre-death interactions of family and friends bereaved by a drug-related death6
Passing through end-of-life suffering: Possible or not? Results from a qualitative inquiry6
‘I feel so alone… I am nobody, and I am nothing’. A psychosocial autopsy study on adolescent girls’ suicide, with a focus on sexual orientation6
Communication about euthanasia in Dutch nursing homes6
Grief participation rights and the social support hierarchy: Exploring the communicative role of the bereaved in a social support interaction6
“Quality of life matters to me more than life, itself”: A qualitative exploration of older adults’ values and preferences on controlling the time of death6
Cohort profile of FALCON: a prospective nationwide cohort of families with minor children who have lost a parent in Denmark in 2019–20215
Understanding self-healing: Recovery insights from Indonesian suicide loss survivors and support providers5
The first 72 hours: Suicide loss survivor experiences with early responders5
Consulting parents bereaved by childhood cancer: A qualitative study to improve bereavement services5
Applying the phenomenology of grief: An autoethnographic study5
Quality of life and loneliness post-bereavement: Results from a nationwide survey of bereaved older adults5
Correlates of prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms in Brazilian COVID-19 bereaved adults5
Proof of life: Human remains and memory in the Philippine Drug War5
Experiences of Iranian people who lost a partner in road traffic collisions: A descriptive phenomenology5
Dynamic bidirectional relation between state mindfulness and suicidal ideation among female college students: The moderating effect of trait mindfulness5
Suicide-related communication and circumstances surrounding suicide: Study of police records in Slovenia5
Patients’ experiences and expectations of the General Practitioner’s role during bereavement care after losing a loved one: A qualitative study5
Reduced death anxiety as a mediator of the relationship between acute subjective effects of psychedelics and improved subjective well-being5
Supports for university counselors impacted by student suicide: A systematic review and thematic synthesis5
Bereavement in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychometric analysis of the Pandemic Grief Scale-Urdu Version (PGS-UV)5
Filling in the gaps: A grounded theory of the experiences and needs of healthcare staff following a colleague death by suicide in the UK5
The Pedagogy of Death and education in the wake of the pandemic: Implications for comprehensive teacher education encompassing awareness and the biographical dimension5
Experiences of grief and loss among registered nurses in residential aged care facilities: A qualitative descriptive study5
Comparing social media engagement between women with suicidal ideation and those who have attempted suicide5
The impact of their role on telephone crisis support workers’ psychological wellbeing and functioning: Qualitative findings from a mixed methods investigation5
The immortality trap: Terror management in the digital context5
The impact of a student death doula service-learning experience in palliative care settings on nursing students: A pilot mixed-methods study4
A high tide of death: The American Civil War4
Never-ending funerals. Annual burials and reburials of victims of mass violence in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina*4
Navigating autonomy and decision-making capacity: Legal and ethical considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying for individuals with mental disorders in Portugal4
Correction4
Emotion regulation deficits across the spectrum of self-harm4
“As long as they remember me, I am alive”: Commemoration and memory through stickers4
Construction of meaning in survivors of suicide loss: A Spanish translation and application of the Meaning in Loss Codebook4
Exploring the process of adjustment following partner death in younger, widowed individuals: A qualitative systematic review4
Hearing the missing voices: Child and adolescent grief4
Psychosocial burden after the death of a child from cancer: Results of a bereaved parent survey4
The experiences of grandparents involved in the home-based end-of-life care of their grandchild with cancer: A qualitative secondary data analysis4
Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS): Psychometric study of validation of the Portuguese version4
Attachment anxiety, loneliness, and death anxiety in problematic social media use4
Mindfulness exercises reduce death anxiety and burnout in intensive care nurses4
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 period4
“I could have”: The lived experience of bereavement-related regret4
Experiences of Black South African widows regarding mourning rituals following the death of their spouses: Upholding cultural practices or violating human rights?4
Do mortality cues increase state autonomy? The moderating roles of trait autonomy, flexibility, and curiosity4
Death perceptions, grief, and distress in Ultra-Orthodox Jews who witnessed the 2021 Meron disaster4
Transformations and transitions: The social and political life of the dead4
Understanding how volunteer companionship impacts those during the end of life: A realist evaluation3
The integrated process model of loss and grief - An interprofessional understanding3
Supporting bereaved students: Qualitative insights from Danish college student counselors3
Negotiating the postvention situation: A grounded theory of NHS staff experiences when supporting their coworkers following a colleague’s suicide3
Evaluation of the death anxiety beliefs and behaviors scale in Iranian adolescents3
“You have to be mentally prepared for that moment”: Attitudes of the adolescent population to death and their educational implications3
“It turned out right for both of us”: A qualitative study about a preference for home death and actual place of death3
Family members’ experiences of bereavement in the emergency department: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies3
Beyond meaning in life: How a perceived futility in searching for meaning in life predicts suicidal ideation3
Exploring attentional bias in nursing students under sadness priming: A dot-probe study3
Relatives’ grief at three moments after death of a loved one during COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)3
A short-term intervention program for traumatic grief guided by the Two-Track Model of Bereavement (TTMB): Applying a multi-module transtheoretical framework3
Identifying suicide ideation in mental health application posts: A random forest algorithm3
Changing perspectives on participation in assisted dying in Queensland, Australia: A one-year qualitative longitudinal study of doctors3
A long overdue sourcebook of American Indian death and dyingA review of Sociology of Death and the American Indian by Gerry R. Cox. Le3
Posttraumatic growth following a drug-related death: A family perspective3
“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 care3
Revising ruling discourses: The griefwork evidence-to-practice gap and the mental health workforce3
“So, whose milk was it? … It became all of ours, together”: A relational autoethnographic study of an interactional human milk donation process through bereavement3
Continuing bonds of bereaved Muslims mothers with their young dead child3
Are ‘time’ and ‘culture’ useful and necessary diagnostic requirements for ICD-11 Prolonged Grief Disorder? A Cross-national study3
Factors associated with suicidal ideation among medical students during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru: A multicenter study3
The psychological burden of bereavement in the general population of UK and Ireland3
Integration of disaster nursing, technology, and health policy in realizing community resilience3
Meaning-making following loss among bereaved spouses during the COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)3
Maternal mental health, marital adjustment, and family support in the grieving process after a pregnancy loss3
A case report to understand the use of an evidence-based approach of prolonged grief therapy in Chinese culture3
The mediating role of self-efficacy, social support, and hope in the relation between mental health and resilience among 2023 Türkiye earthquake survivors3
Demystifying dying in end-of-life-care: A phenomenological perspective3
Risk and correlates of prolonged grief disorder in bereaved Chinese university students3
Prolonged grief disorder among those who have lost family members due to natural disasters: A mixed design study3
Cluster analysis of suicidal ideation and influencing factors among Spanish teachers3
“We are the forgotten grievers”: Bereaved family members’ experiences of support and mental ill-health following a road traffic collision3
COVID-19 pandemic impact on funeral service workers’ work-related mental health3
Mass Shootings Anxiety Scale: A preliminary psychometric study3
Partner bereavement when parenting dependent children: What factors influence adjustment?3
“We need to share our stories”: Perspectives from suicide loss survivors in India3
Congenital loss: Loss of an immediate family member prior to or during one’s birth3
“I know she’s there” meanings of continuing bonds for bereaved Costa Rican men: a qualitative study3
Accessing an assisted death from the UK: Navigating the legal ‘grey’ area3
Bereavement outcomes of carers of patients with high grade glioma: Experiences of support before and after the death3
Developing a compassionate university: Insights from a longitudinal process evaluation3
Measurement invariance of the Grief Facilitation Inventory with respect to youth gender, race, ethnicity, and age3
Factors associated with suicide risk among Brazilian graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Missing pieces and body parts: On bodily integrity and political violence3
Neural correlates of death anxiety3
Level of professional quality of life and coping with death competence in healthcare professionals exposed to perinatal loss: A cross-sectional study3
End-of-life treatment preferences and advanced care planning among older adults3
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