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- Title
A New State of Being: The Lived Experience of Parental Bereavement.
- Authors
Denhup, Christine Yvonne
- Abstract
In spite of growing bereavement literature, the meaning of the lived experience of parental bereavement is not well understood. This article presents selected findings from a Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenological study which aimed to describe the lived experience of bereaved parents who experienced the death of a child due to cancer. Conversational interviews were conducted with six parents who experienced the death of a young child due to cancer at least one year prior to participation. The nature of parental bereavement was revealed to be a new state of being into which parents enter immediately after the death of a child and which has no end point. Findings will equip health professionals and others who work with bereaved parents with a deeper understanding of the meaning of parental bereavement.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHILD mortality; BEREAVEMENT; INTERVIEWING; PHENOMENOLOGY; RESEARCH funding; TUMORS in children; THEMATIC analysis; PARENT attitudes; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 2017, Vol 74, Issue 3, p345
- ISSN
0030-2228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0030222815598455