OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Death Studies is 4. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 burnout, COVID-19 stress and resilience: Initial psychometric properties of COVID-19 Burnout Scale	196
COVID-19 severity, self-efficacy, knowledge, preventive behaviors, and mental health in Turkey	146
The relationship between fear of COVID-19 and mental health problems: A meta-analysis	134
Pandemic Grief Scale: A screening tool for dysfunctional grief due to a COVID-19 loss	71
Validation of the Korean version of the obsession with COVID-19 scale and the Coronavirus anxiety scale	69
Perceived fear of COVID-19 infection according to sex, age and occupational risk using the Brazilian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale	65
Subjective vitality and loneliness explain how coronavirus anxiety increases rumination among college students	54
Circumstances of the death and associated risk factors for severity and impairment of COVID-19 grief	54
Risk factors for dysfunctional grief and functional impairment for all causes of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning	52
Coronaphobia among healthcare professionals in Mexico: A psychometric analysis	43
COVID-19 Phobia in the United States: Validation of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-SE)	41
Culture and grief: Ethnographic perspectives on ritual, relationships and remembering	40
Do fear of COVID-19 and religious coping predict depression, anxiety, and stress among the Arab population during health crisis?	39
Fear of COVID-19 scale: Validity, reliability and factorial invariance in Argentina’s general population	39
Fear of death in the shadow of COVID-19: The mediating role of perceived stress in the relationship between neuroticism and death anxiety	36
COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh and associated psychological problems: An online survey	35
Are deaths from COVID-19 associated with higher rates of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) than deaths from other causes?	34
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the fear of COVID-19 scale in seven Latin American countries	31
COVID-19 brings a new urgency for advance care planning: Implications of death education	27
Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: New psychometric evidence for the Spanish version based on CFA and IRT models in a Peruvian sample	27
Six feet apart or six feet under: The impact of COVID-19 on the Black community	25
What do teachers think of death education?	24
Non-disclosure of suicidal ideation in psychiatric inpatients: Rates and correlates	19
Experiences of grief-bereavement after a medically assisted death in Canada: Bringing death to life	19
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed dying and grief: Will there be a surge of complicated grief?	19

The existential dimension of the pandemic: Death attitudes, personal worldview, and coronavirus anxiety	18
Work status, death anxiety and psychological distress during COVID-19 pandemic: Implications of the terror management theory	18
Developing a death literacy index	18
Dimensions of religion and attitudes toward euthanasia	17
Understanding wellbeing and death obsession of young adults in the context of Coronavirus experiences: Mitigating the effect of mindful awareness	16
Adaptation and evaluation of COVID-19 related Psychological Distress Scale Turkish form	15
Adaptation of the Cuban version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale	15
The moderating role of subjective nearness-to-death in the association between health worries and death anxieties from COVID-19	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
Assistance in dying: A comparative look at legal definitions	15
Prevalence and correlates of coronavirus anxiety in Germany: Results of a nationally representative survey	14
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	14
Adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale in the general Colombian population	13
Grieving the loss of a pet: A qualitative systematic review	13
The experience of divine struggle following child loss: The Case of Israeli bereaved Modern-Orthodox parents	12
Psychache, unmet interpersonal needs, childhood trauma and suicide ideation in young adults	12
Risk perception, social distancing, and distress during COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the role of online counseling and perceived social support	12
Losing a close person following death by sudden cardiac arrest: Bereaved family members’ lived experiences	12
Death certificate errors in three teaching hospitals of Zahedan, southeast of Iran	12
Caregiver behaviors and childhood maladaptive grief: Initial validation of the Grief Facilitation Inventory	12
Do emotion regulation difficulties mediate the association between neuroticism, insecure attachment, and prolonged grief?	11
The fear of the COVID-19 Scale: validation in the Portuguese general population	11
‘Special death’: Living with bereavement by drug-related death in Ireland	11
Measuring dysfunctional grief due to a COVID-19 loss: A Turkish validation study of the Pandemic Grief Scale	11
Exploring contemporary forms of aid in dying: An ethnography of euthanasia in Belgium and assisted suicide in Switzerland	11
Loss and grief in elderly people: Results from the LIFE-Adult-Study	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
Adaptation of the COV19-QoL Scale to Turkish culture: Its psychometric properties in diagnosed and undiagnosed individuals	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
Professional quality of life, depression, and meaning in life among helping professionals: The moderating role of self-competence in death work	10
Mediating role of positivity in the relationship between state anxiety and problematic social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
“Finding a safe space”: A qualitative study of what makes help helpful for adolescents bereaved by suicide	10
Grief Impairment Scale: A biopsychosocial measure of grief-related functional impairment	10
When college students grieve: New insights into the effects of loss during emerging adulthood	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
Adapting and validating the coronavirus-19 phobia scale (C19P-S) in Korea	9
Challenges in home care at the end stage of dementia: Hospice units vs. home care units. A qualitative study	9
A comparative study of death anxiety and death attitudes in Han and Tibetan ethnic groups	9
Emotion regulation deficits across the spectrum of self-harm	9
Those left behind: A scoping review of the effects of suicide exposure on veterans, service members, and military families	9
Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Obsession with COVID-19 Scale (BP-OCS) using a large University Sample in Brazil	9
Factors associated with suicidal ideation among medical students during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru: A multicenter study	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
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
Psychometric validation of the French version of the Suicidal Ideation Attributes Scale (SIDAS-FR)	7
Death thoughts predict increased depression for those with low self-worth	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

The stigmatization of suicide: A study of stories told by college students in China	7
Prolonged grief disorder among bereaved survivors after the 2011 Van Earthquake in Turkey	7
Pregnancy loss experiences of couples in a phenomenological study: Gender differences within the Turkish sociocultural context	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
Overwhelming and unjust: A qualitative study of fathers’ experiences of grief following neonatal death	7
Psychosocial factors associated with complicated grief in caregivers during COVID-19: Results from a preliminary cross-sectional study	7
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
Are unmet needs driving requests for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)? A qualitative study of Canadian MAiD providers	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
Replication analysis of the COVID-19 Worry Scale	6
The social health domain of people bereaved by a drug-related death and associations with professional help: A cross-sectional study	6
Operationalizing intersectionality as a framework in qualitative grief research	6
Prolonged grief and posttraumatic growth among middle-aged and older widowed persons: A latent class analysis and testing for the role of social support	6
Death education and photovoice at school: A workshop with Italian high school students	6
Implicit measure of suicidal ideation in patients with depression	6
Methodological weakness of the death-word-fragment task: Alternative implicit death anxiety measures	6
Rebuilding wellbeing: Understanding the role of self-criticism, anger rumination, and death distress after the February 6, 2023, Türkiye Earthquake	6
Assessment of psychometric characteristics of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in patients with preexisting psychiatric disorders	6
Social stigma of suicide in South Korea: A cultural perspective	6
Beyond a traumatic loss: The experiences of mourning alone after parental death during COVID-19 pandemic	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
Ethical judgment in assessing requests for medical assistance in dying in Canada and Quebec: What can we learn from other jurisdictions?	6
Perception of grief responses: Are maladaptive grief responses and the stages of grief considered normal?	6
How we continue bonds with deceased persons: The proximity-seeking behavior scale	5
Assistance in dying: Conditions for international comparison	5
The meaning of patient deaths for professional caregivers: A quantitative construct validation	5
Posttraumatic growth following a drug-related death: A family perspective	5
The relational landscape of bereavement after anticipated death: An interpretive model	5
Forgive but not forget: From self-forgiveness to posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors	5
The ideal and the real: Patient and bereaved family caregiver perspectives on the significance of place of death	5
Reduced death anxiety as a mediator of the relationship between acute subjective effects of psychedelics and improved subjective well-being	5
Immediate bereavement experiences when a parent of dependent children has died of cancer: Funeral directors' perspectives	5
Psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in a US college sample	5
Effects of mortality awareness on attitudes toward dying and death and meaning in life—a randomized controlled trial	5
Digital storytelling: Narrating meaning in bereavement	5
Assistance in dying across borders: How the transnational circulations of persons, terms and themes influence the construction of a public problem	5
Bereavement in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychometric analysis of the Pandemic Grief Scale-Urdu Version (PGS-UV)	5
Reasons for living among those with lived experience entering the suicide prevention workforce	5
Effectiveness of Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) in Lithuania	5
The role of sense of coherence and emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and grief	5
Key issues, challenges, and preferred supports for those bereaved by suicide: Insights from postvention experts	5
Spirituality in Brazilian family caregivers of patients with cancer from the end-of-life care to bereavement	4
Parents’ religious/spiritual beliefs, practices, changes and needs after pregnancy or neonatal loss—A Danish cross-sectional study	4
Predictive factors associated with death depression in women with breast cancer	4
The impact of continuing bonds following bereavement: A systematic review	4
French-Canadian validation of the Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report (TGI-SR)	4
Traumatic experiences and resilience: Associations with mental health, death attitudes, and religion in university students	4
Experiences of Black South African widows regarding mourning rituals following the death of their spouses: Upholding cultural practices or violating human rights?	4
The lived experience of bereaved Iranian families with COVID-19 grief	4
Bereavement affinities: A qualitative study of lived experiences of grief and loss	4
Grief and bereavement beliefs among U. S. mental health professionals and the general public	4
Perceptions of ideal grief and continuing bonds: Undergraduate student survey on persistent complex bereavement disorder	4
Thinking for healing: The role of mentalization deficits as moderator in the link between complicated grief and suicide ideation among suicide-loss survivors	4
Attitudes promoting coping with death anxiety among parents of children with disabilities	4
Personality traits and fears of death and dying predict ageism	4
“Perhaps something of beauty can grow:” experiences of care farming for grief	4
Slovak adaptation of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale	4
The impact of anencephaly on parents: A mixed-methods study	4
Testing terror management theory in advanced cancer	4
Feasibility of brief online gatekeeper training for Japanese university students: A randomized controlled trial	4