Death Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Death Studies is 5. 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: A brief mental health screener for COVID-19 related anxiety992
COVID-19 burnout, COVID-19 stress and resilience: Initial psychometric properties of COVID-19 Burnout Scale170
Measuring anxiety related to COVID-19: A Turkish validation study of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale147
COVID-19 severity, self-efficacy, knowledge, preventive behaviors, and mental health in Turkey139
Adaptation and evaluation of Turkish version of the fear of COVID-19 Scale122
The relationship between fear of COVID-19 and mental health problems: A meta-analysis114
Factor analysis of the COVID-19 Perceived Risk Scale: A preliminary study111
Validation of the Korean version of the obsession with COVID-19 scale and the Coronavirus anxiety scale66
Perceived fear of COVID-19 infection according to sex, age and occupational risk using the Brazilian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale64
Pandemic Grief Scale: A screening tool for dysfunctional grief due to a COVID-19 loss63
Subjective vitality and loneliness explain how coronavirus anxiety increases rumination among college students52
Suicide risk during the lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Colombia50
Circumstances of the death and associated risk factors for severity and impairment of COVID-19 grief49
Social isolation and the mitigation of coronavirus anxiety: The mediating role of meaning49
Grief literacy: A call to action for compassionate communities45
Risk factors for dysfunctional grief and functional impairment for all causes of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning42
Coronaphobia among healthcare professionals in Mexico: A psychometric analysis40
Do fear of COVID-19 and religious coping predict depression, anxiety, and stress among the Arab population during health crisis?38
COVID-19 Phobia in the United States: Validation of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-SE)37
Fear of COVID-19 scale: Validity, reliability and factorial invariance in Argentina’s general population36
COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh and associated psychological problems: An online survey33
Fear of death in the shadow of COVID-19: The mediating role of perceived stress in the relationship between neuroticism and death anxiety32
Fatal prescriptions: Immigration detention, mismedication, and the necropolitics of uncare29
Expanding our paradigms: Intersectional and socioecological approaches to suicide prevention28
Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: New psychometric evidence for the Spanish version based on CFA and IRT models in a Peruvian sample27
Are deaths from COVID-19 associated with higher rates of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) than deaths from other causes?26
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the fear of COVID-19 scale in seven Latin American countries26
Factorial validity of the Urdu version of the Obsession with COVID-19 Scale: Preliminary investigation using a university sample in Pakistan24
COVID-19 brings a new urgency for advance care planning: Implications of death education24
Six feet apart or six feet under: The impact of COVID-19 on the Black community23
Culture and grief: Ethnographic perspectives on ritual, relationships and remembering23
What do teachers think of death education?19
Border beings. Present absences among migrants in the Spanish enclave of Melilla18
Validation of the prolonged grief scale (PG-13) and investigation of the prevalence and risk factors of prolonged grief disorder in Turkish bereaved samples18
Work status, death anxiety and psychological distress during COVID-19 pandemic: Implications of the terror management theory18
Internalized versus externalized continuing bonds: Relations to grief, trauma, attachment, openness to experience, and posttraumatic growth17
The existential dimension of the pandemic: Death attitudes, personal worldview, and coronavirus anxiety16
Experiences of grief-bereavement after a medically assisted death in Canada: Bringing death to life16
Understanding wellbeing and death obsession of young adults in the context of Coronavirus experiences: Mitigating the effect of mindful awareness15
Living dead: Suspended lives during/after gender violence15
Adaptation of the Cuban version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale15
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed dying and grief: Will there be a surge of complicated grief?15
Depression and alcohol use disorders as precursors to death by suicide15
The moderating role of subjective nearness-to-death in the association between health worries and death anxieties from COVID-1914
Adaptation and evaluation of COVID-19 related Psychological Distress Scale Turkish form14
Risk factors for suicide in chronic fatigue syndrome14
Cultural responses to loss and grief among Black Americans: Theory and practice implications for clinicians13
Young adults’ perspectives on advance care planning: Evaluating the Death over Dinner initiative13
Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and unwillingness to donate organs post-mortem13
Obsession with Covid-19 in Peruvian police and armed forces: Validation of the obsession with Covid-19 Scale in Spanish using SEM and IRT models13
Developing a death literacy index13
Prevalence and correlates of coronavirus anxiety in Germany: Results of a nationally representative survey13
Non-disclosure of suicidal ideation in psychiatric inpatients: Rates and correlates13
Dimensions of religion and attitudes toward euthanasia12
The value of implementation science in bridging the evidence gap in bereavement care12
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 study12
Relationship between Beck Hopelessness Scale and suicidal ideation: A short-term longitudinal study12
The fear of the COVID-19 Scale: validation in the Portuguese general population11
Assistance in dying: A comparative look at legal definitions11
Death certificate errors in three teaching hospitals of Zahedan, southeast of Iran11
Adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale in the general Colombian population11
Effects of bereavement groups–a systematic review and meta-analysis11
Social justice and cemetery systems11
If we knew then what we know now: The preparedness experience of pre-loss and post-loss dementia caregivers11
Is it possible to find a bifactor structure in the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S)? Psychometric evidence in an Ecuadorian sample10
Risk perception, social distancing, and distress during COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the role of online counseling and perceived social support10
Complicated grief knowledge, attitudes, skills, and training among mental health professionals: A qualitative exploration10
Do emotion regulation difficulties mediate the association between neuroticism, insecure attachment, and prolonged grief?10
Resolving anticipatory grief and enhancing dignity at the end-of life: A systematic review of palliative interventions9
Psychache, unmet interpersonal needs, childhood trauma and suicide ideation in young adults9
Exploring contemporary forms of aid in dying: An ethnography of euthanasia in Belgium and assisted suicide in Switzerland9
Challenges in home care at the end stage of dementia: Hospice units vs. home care units. A qualitative study9
Measuring dysfunctional grief due to a COVID-19 loss: A Turkish validation study of the Pandemic Grief Scale9
Death anxiety and burnout in intensive care unit specialists facing the COVID-19 outbreak: The mediating role of obsession with COVID-19 and coronaphobia9
Adaptation of the COV19-QoL Scale to Turkish culture: Its psychometric properties in diagnosed and undiagnosed individuals9
Grieving the loss of a pet: A qualitative systematic review9
Losing a close person following death by sudden cardiac arrest: Bereaved family members’ lived experiences9
Adapting and validating the coronavirus-19 phobia scale (C19P-S) in Korea9
‘Special death’: Living with bereavement by drug-related death in Ireland9
The experience of divine struggle following child loss: The Case of Israeli bereaved Modern-Orthodox parents8
A comparative study of death anxiety and death attitudes in Han and Tibetan ethnic groups8
The effect of professional education on medical and nursing students’ attitudes toward death8
Those left behind: A scoping review of the effects of suicide exposure on veterans, service members, and military families8
Professional quality of life, depression, and meaning in life among helping professionals: The moderating role of self-competence in death work8
Mediating role of positivity in the relationship between state anxiety and problematic social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic8
Loss and grief in elderly people: Results from the LIFE-Adult-Study8
Who is really at risk? The contribution of death anxiety in suicide risk and loneliness among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic7
“Finding a safe space”: A qualitative study of what makes help helpful for adolescents bereaved by suicide7
Unfinished business and self-blaming emotions among those bereaved by a COVID-19 death7
Talking about death when a parent with dependent children dies of cancer: A pilot study of the Family Talk Intervention in palliative care7
Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Obsession with COVID-19 Scale (BP-OCS) using a large University Sample in Brazil7
Caregiver behaviors and childhood maladaptive grief: Initial validation of the Grief Facilitation Inventory7
Turkish Version of the Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report (TGI-SR): Validity and reliability7
Psychosocial factors associated with complicated grief in caregivers during COVID-19: Results from a preliminary cross-sectional study7
Anxiety and COVID-19: Coronavirus Anxiety Scale scores in medical and non-medical personnel in urban hospitals in Guadalajara. A cross-sectional survey study7
Death education’s “period of popularity”: Lessons for contemporary P-12 schools in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Emotion regulation deficits across the spectrum of self-harm7
Social support as a protective factor against the effect of grief reactions on depression for bereaved single older adults7
The language of dying: Communication about end-of-life in residential aged care7
Meeting death and embracing existential loneliness: A cancer patient’s experience of being the sole author of his life7
Validating the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in a Colombian sample7
Prolonged grief disorder among bereaved survivors after the 2011 Van Earthquake in Turkey6
The relationship between physical health and fear of death in rural residents: The mediation effect of meaning in life and mental health6
Assessment of psychometric characteristics of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in patients with preexisting psychiatric disorders6
Inventory of complicated grief: Factor structure among middle-aged and older bereaved parents6
Methodological weakness of the death-word-fragment task: Alternative implicit death anxiety measures6
Ethical judgment in assessing requests for medical assistance in dying in Canada and Quebec: What can we learn from other jurisdictions?6
The stigmatization of suicide: A study of stories told by college students in China6
Pregnancy loss experiences of couples in a phenomenological study: Gender differences within the Turkish sociocultural context6
Factors associated with suicidal ideation among medical students during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru: A multicenter study6
Death education and photovoice at school: A workshop with Italian high school students6
Beyond a traumatic loss: The experiences of mourning alone after parental death during COVID-19 pandemic5
Psychometric validation of the French version of the Suicidal Ideation Attributes Scale (SIDAS-FR)5
Assistance in dying: Conditions for international comparison5
When college students grieve: New insights into the effects of loss during emerging adulthood5
Immediate bereavement experiences when a parent of dependent children has died of cancer: Funeral directors' perspectives5
Intensive outpatient treatment of PTSD and complicated grief in suicide-bereaved military widows5
Overwhelming and unjust: A qualitative study of fathers’ experiences of grief following neonatal death5
Implicit measure of suicidal ideation in patients with depression5
Death thoughts predict increased depression for those with low self-worth5
Forced and chosen transfers for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) before and during the COVID 19 pandemic: A mixed methods study5
Perception of grief responses: Are maladaptive grief responses and the stages of grief considered normal?5
Are unmet needs driving requests for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)? A qualitative study of Canadian MAiD providers5
A call for epidemiology and thanatology to address the dying, death, and grief pipeline among Blacks in the United States5
Suicidality Among College Students in Spain: Prevalence and Associations With Substance Use, Social Support, and Resilience5
Do interpersonal events buffer or worsen depressive and grief related symptoms in people bereaved through suicide?5
The social health domain of people bereaved by a drug-related death and associations with professional help: A cross-sectional study5
Replication analysis of the COVID-19 Worry Scale5
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