Factors Associated with Perinatal Bereavement Among Mothers in Bolivia: A Qualitative Study

Healthcare, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13(6), С. 615 - 615

Опубликована: Март 12, 2025

Background/Objectives: The objective of this research was to analyze the experiences and factors associated with perinatal grief in mothers urban context Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Methods: sample consisted seven who experienced a loss during pregnancy up second month after baby’s birth, occurring between 2015 2020 city Sierra. mean age 34.86 years (SD = 3.13), they belonged middle or upper-middle socioeconomic levels. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews analyzed using descriptive qualitative analysis. Results: identified characteristics sadness, anger, guilt, emotional numbness, social isolation, anxiety. Factors contributing processing included support from partner family, when accommodated respected mother’s needs. hindering grieving process cultural environments that often silence minimize loss, history previous losses, desire be pregnant, life expectations projects focused on motherhood. Conclusions: In conclusion, suggests losses Bolivian may influenced by such as knowledge cause death, experiences, their effects. limitations study include lack diversity participants’ educational backgrounds restriction an area Emotional interventions these bereaved those complex moments should integrated healthcare system.

Язык: Английский

Cross-Cultural Validity of the Grief Impairment Scale (GIS): Evidence From Four Latin American Countries

Illness Crisis & Loss, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Авг. 1, 2024

The Grief Impairment Scale (GIS) is used to measure functional impairment due grief following the death of a loved one. However, there no information on its cross-cultural utility. Thus, this study assessed measurement invariance GIS using large sample bereaved adults ( N = 2060) from Peru, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Colombia. Specifically, we employed two techniques: multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA) alignment optimization method. results indicated that demonstrated configural metric invariance, but not scalar through MG-CFA. method presence an approximate invariance. Therefore, suggest measures grief-related similarly across four Latin American countries. Among countries examined, Peru reported highest average score had percentage cases at risk for clinically relevant (6.2%). These findings support validity lay foundation future comparisons.

Язык: Английский

The Grief Networks of Traumatic and Nontraumatic Deaths: Comparing Earthquake‐ and Illness‐Related Losses

Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 31(6)

Опубликована: Ноя. 1, 2024

ABSTRACT Traumatic death is a risk factor for prolonged grief. Network analysis offers perspective understanding traumatic bereavement at symptom interaction level. This study estimates regularized partial correlation grief networks due to earthquake ( n = 818) and illness 237), using symptoms from the Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG) as nodes. Difficulty in accepting loneliness were highly central nodes both networks. Trust difficulties longing deceased exhibited high centrality earthquake‐bereaved sample but not illness‐bereaved sample. The network was characterized by connectivity diversity symptoms. These results provide insights into severity after loss. Although promoting integration reality loss alleviating important, it might also be worth considering role post‐loss interpersonal trust distress associated with bereavement.

Язык: Английский