Death Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Death Studies is 2. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
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 Zimbabwe43
Attitudes of future teachers toward death education: An analysis of the impact of multiple factors21
Continuing bonds and the posthumous child19
“I wanted to be proud of myself, not ashamed”: A qualitative investigation of suicide and self-injury inflection points18
A poetry of grief16
Are unmet needs driving requests for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)? A qualitative study of Canadian MAiD providers15
Community-based death preparation and education: A scoping review15
Resilience among bereaved college students: Indicators, facilitators, and barriers15
Death and grief in illustrated storybooks: An inventory of Swedish literature for young children11
The stuff that nightmares are made of: Israeli dreams in times of the Israel-Hamas war11
A high tide of death: The American Civil War11
Violence and suicide risk behavior in a nationally representative sample of youth aged 12-17: What does it mean to be at-risk?11
“Giving voice to the voiceless”: An exploration of the grieving ritual for a therapy dog11
Coping and grief symptoms after parental loss in adolescence - a nationwide follow-up study11
The functions of the dreams of the deceased: A qualitative study of women bereaved by partner’s suicide11
Hearing the missing voices: Child and adolescent grief11
Understanding public reactions to state security officials’ suicide cases in online news comments11
Drug-related death bereavement across the globe A review of The Routledge international handbook of drug-related death bereavement 11
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
Do mortality cues increase state autonomy? The moderating roles of trait autonomy, flexibility, and curiosity10
The association of religion with advance care planning10
Actions taken and barriers encountered by professionals working with adults with intellectual disabilities who experience grief: a qualitative approach10
Correlations between the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide rates and the non-assisted suicide rates at the municipal level in the Netherlands10
Female military service members and veterans: Understanding treatment seeking behavior and previous suicide risk among suicide decedents10
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed dying and grief: Will there be a surge of complicated grief?9
Emotion regulation deficits across the spectrum of self-harm9
The suicide of Private Danny Chen: An interpersonal theory perspective9
The experiences of grandparents involved in the home-based end-of-life care of their grandchild with cancer: A qualitative secondary data analysis8
Self-destruction or surrender? Religiosity and active versus passive euthanasia8
Experiences of Black South African widows regarding mourning rituals following the death of their spouses: Upholding cultural practices or violating human rights?8
Perspectives on a good death: A comparative study of veterans and civilians8
Complication of Grief and PTSD among bereaved siblings in Israel8
An online grief intervention to improve well-being and reduce clinical symptoms: a randomized controlled trial8
Community workshops increase advance care planning knowledge, appointment of legal proxies and completion of end-of life written plans8
“Who is going to take care of these grandkids if I go?”: End-of-life planning by caregivers in grandparent-headed households8
The gift of peer understanding and suicide bereavement support groups: A qualitative study8
A qualitative study of factors involved in the helping behaviors of suicide prevention gatekeepers8
The Turkish adaptation and psychometric characteristics of the COVID-19 Traumatic Stress Scale8
Psycholinguistic, Stroop, and self-report measurements of death anxiety: A study of convergent validity7
Young widowhood: A qualitative study of sexuality after partner loss7
Grief Coach : Feasibility and acceptability of a text message program for bereavement support among grievers in the United Kingdom7
Death perceptions, grief, and distress in Ultra-Orthodox Jews who witnessed the 2021 Meron disaster7
Starving off death: Mortality salience impacts women’s body image and disordered eating7
Echoes of the blast: A qualitative study of loss and adaptation among bereaved families of the 2020 Beirut explosion7
Introduction of the French version of the Multidimensional Orientation Toward Dying and Death Inventory (MODDI-F/fre)7
Availability of bereavement support following traumatic pediatric death in a large metropolitan area7
Suicide among the elderly in France and Switzerland: What does the societal context tell us about the place of relatives?7
Is it possible to find a bifactor structure in the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S)? Psychometric evidence in an Ecuadorian sample7
Psychosocial burden after the death of a child from cancer: Results of a bereaved parent survey6
Who is really at risk? The contribution of death anxiety in suicide risk and loneliness among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic6
A multidisciplinary perspective on physician-assisted dying in primary care in The Netherlands: A narrative interview study6
Grieving the loss of a pet: A qualitative systematic review6
The experiences of nursing students participating in a student death doula service-learning program in palliative care settings: A qualitative study6
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
The Two-Track Model of Dementia Grief and spousal response to illness and death6
The experiences and support needs of Turkish individuals bereaved by suicide: An online qualitative investigation6
Balancing roles: Teaching staff’s dilemma in supporting bereaved college students6
"Martyrs do not die": Politics and security in Kurdish insurgents’ funerals5
Navigating autonomy and decision-making capacity: Legal and ethical considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying for individuals with mental disorders in Portugal5
Supporting palliative patients on their journeyA review of Palliative Treatment for Advanced Cancer Patients: Can Hope Be a Right? by Cynthia Pereirade Araújo. Springer 5
Polish adaptation of the quality of relationships inventory—Bereavement version5
The presence of death in Spanish education law (1812–2006)5
Attitudes promoting coping with death anxiety among parents of children with disabilities5
Grief Impairment Scale: A biopsychosocial measure of grief-related functional impairment5
Transformations and transitions: The social and political life of the dead5
“Mum, when we die, what do you think happens?” A qualitative study of views on death education among Spanish families5
Death attitudes and Chinese college students’ mental health: A latent profile analysis5
The relational landscape of bereavement after anticipated death: An interpretive model5
Perspectives on dying in severe and enduring eating disorders (SEEDs): A qualitative study among Dutch mental healthcare providers5
Factors associated with attitudes toward death and dying in the second half of life: A scoping review5
Differences in university experiences, support seeking, and mental well-being in Australian university students according to bereavement status5
Never-ending funerals. Annual burials and reburials of victims of mass violence in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina*5
Who breaks bad news: Doctors, family caregivers or cancer patients? A qualitative study in Southern China5
Social stigma of suicide in South Korea: A cultural perspective5
Digital storytelling: Narrating meaning in bereavement5
Feasibility of brief online gatekeeper training for Japanese university students: A randomized controlled trial5
The experience of children and adolescents in the school setting a few years after losing a parent4
Age does matter for hospice care: Health care providers’ attitudes toward hospice care in Binzhou, China4
Military-bereaved siblings’ growth and distress – Interplays between interpersonal factors and commemoration4
“They are not taking it seriously”: Constructing family dynamics in end-of-life care interactions in Hong Kong4
MAiD as human connection: Stories and metaphors of physician providers’ existential lived experience4
A review of Non-Communicable Diseases: A Compendium4
Exploring the stigma of suicide in Malaysia: Lived experience perspectives4
The integrated process model of loss and grief - An interprofessional understanding4
Social disabling: A qualitative study of interpersonal interaction patterns of shiduers in China4
Religio-cultural facilitators and barriers in decision-making on organ donation: The experiences of families of brain-dead patients in Iran4
Digital doppelgänger4
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
Death education and photovoice at school: A workshop with Italian high school students4
Aesthetic practices in bereavement4
ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder: Factors, correlates, and functional impairment4
Veteran suicide thoughts and attempts during the transition from military service to civilian life: Qualitative insights4
Toward a better assessment of coping with bereavement: Applicability to diverse experiences and conceptual structure of the coping with bereavement questionnaire4
Reflecting on death: Priorities for living well4
Mothers’ views on death education for children aged 4–64
Perinatal death, collective action and legislation against obstetric violence in Argentina4
Key issues, challenges, and preferred supports for those bereaved by suicide: Insights from postvention experts4
Capturing grief: Photovoice as a tool for learning and researching3
Turkish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire: Validity, reliability and psychometric properties3
The evidentiary potential of art after genocide3
The indirect effect of generativity on fear of death through ego-integrity holds when controlling for spirituality3
Caregiver-child communication on parental loss in the context of the AIDS epidemic in Namibia3
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
Reimagining memorial spaces through digital technologies: A typology of CemTech3
Validating the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in a Colombian sample3
Perceptions of internal and external continuing bonds in bereaved individuals with and without prolonged grief disorder3
A systematic review of the relationship between death anxiety, capability for suicide, and suicidality3
A family affair: Repeated interviews with people with dementia and a euthanasia wish and their families3
End-of-life treatment preferences and advanced care planning among older adults3
The fearlessness about death scale’s efficacy for differentiating suicide attempts from non-suicidal self-injury, a meta-analysis3
Effects of death education interventions on cancer patients in palliative care: A systematic review and meta-analysis3
The stigmatization of suicide: A study of stories told by college students in China3
Knowing is half the battle: Regulating and appraising emotions co-protect from suicidal ideation3
Beyond “altruism motivates body donation”3
“We are the forgotten grievers”: Bereaved family members’ experiences of support and mental ill-health following a road traffic collision3
Pandemic antigones: The role of women in shaping funeral practices in Chile3
Death certification status in Eastern Mediterranean Region: A systematic review3
Measuring the outcomes of support provided to people after a suicide or other sudden bereavement: A scoping review3
Assistance in dying: A comparative look at legal definitions3
The role of death-related advertisements in cell phone use while driving3
‘Special death’: Living with bereavement by drug-related death in Ireland3
Family group conferences for suicidal adolescents: Promising results from naturalistic case study research3
When a parent dies: A scoping review of protective and risk processes for childhood bereavement3
Bereaved UK military families: A mixed methods study on the provision of practical and emotional support3
The role of sense of coherence and emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and grief3
Prolonged grief and posttraumatic growth among middle-aged and older widowed persons: A latent class analysis and testing for the role of social support2
“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
Grief, mourning, and the body: Ritual attention to the death of victims of the dictatorship in Chile*2
Bereaved parents’ and siblings’ healthcare needs, healthcare utilization, and satisfaction with healthcare services eight years after the 2011 Utøya terror attack2
Worldviews about the self mediate the impact of immature and mature defense styles on posttraumatic symptoms in bereaved parents2
Psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in a US college sample2
Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS): Psychometric study of validation of the Portuguese version2
Death and mourning in times of COVID-19. The experience of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa2
Spanish adaptation of the Stillbirth Stigma Scale (SSS)2
Frequency of suicidal ideation inventory: A reliability generalization meta-analysis2
Life in armed conflict: A phenomenological approach to examine the bereavement experiences of parents living in Indian-administered Kashmir2
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
The role of adverse childhood experiences in suicide among sexual minority undergraduate students2
Perspectives on suicide among Chinese youth on internet platforms: A thematic analysis based on Comments from Bilibili users2
Bereavement dyadic coping questionnaire: Development and validation2
Implicit or explicit self-associations with life and death? Predicting short-term self-injurious thoughts and behaviors among adolescents2
Longitudinal examination of cognitive function in older adults after the death of a child2
COVID-19 pandemic impact on funeral service workers’ work-related mental health2
Professional bereavement photography for perinatal loss: A mixed-methods study2
Shared death experience or shared beliefs?2
Orchestrating death in contemporary France: When the juridico-medical scansion at the end of life produces new ontologies2
Bereavement photography, volunteering, and posttraumatic growth: A mixed-methods investigation2
Unity strengthens and inhibits development: A focus group interview with volunteer adults in support programs for bereaved children and their family2
Risk factors for dysfunctional grief and functional impairment for all causes of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning2
Survivors’ perspectives on saying goodbye: Implications for end-of-life engagement across the lifespan and grieving process2
Continuing bonds or ongoing attachments? Exploring the distinction2
Correction2
Perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and hopelessness as predictors of future suicidal ideation in Spanish university students2
Depression among incarcerated persons following the death of a loved one: Does social support mitigate grief?2
Statement of Retraction2
Assessing the fear of COVID-19 scale among health care workers in Israel: a psychometric validation study2
When does disruption of meaning in bereavement become debilitating? Screening for deleterious outcomes with the ISLES-SF2
The stories bones tell. Collaboration between forensic teams and victims’ relatives in the interpretation and ritual accompaniment of human remains in Guatemala*2
Human misconnection ? A response to Beuthin and Bruce on medical assistance in dying providers’ lived experience2
Transforming funeral practices: Rituality and necropower in mass death situations2
Qualities of the dying experience of persons who access medical assistance in dying: A scoping review2
Thoughts and emotions evoked by thinking about own death: American versus Japanese undergraduates2
Transnational grieving: The lived experience of Overseas Filipino Workers who lost their loved ones due to COVID-192
Traumatic experiences and resilience: Associations with mental health, death attitudes, and religion in university students2
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
Posttraumatic growth following a drug-related death: A family perspective2
Readiness of a U.S. Black community to address suicide2
Community knowledge of voluntary assisted dying: a cross-sectional survey of the public in Queensland, Australia2
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
How compassionate is your neighborhood? Results of a cross-sectional survey on neighborhood participation regarding serious illness, death, and loss2
Factors associated with grief in informal carers of people living with Motor Neuron Disease: A mixed methods 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
The Inventory of Social Expectations in Bereavement: Development and psychometric validation of a new instrument2
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