Sentence examples for initial bereavement from inspiring English sources

His parents were killed by a drunken driver when Kasich was in his mid-30s, and he has talked of it profoundly changing his attitude to life, after he struggled through the initial bereavement.

Respondents were contacted only 6 – 9 months after the loss, because in the initial stage of bereavement, social support is usually available in the direct environment of family, friends and neighbours.

Among demographic variables, no significant age difference existed, while it was found that 6 months after the earthquake, symptoms of anxiety, depression and PTSD were significantly more common among students in grades 4 and 5 than those in grade 3, Initial exposure to death, bereavement and extreme fear were significant predictive factors for the occurrence of anxiety, depression and PTSD.

In summary, our results indicate that a majority of widowers are willing to participate in bereavement research after receiving initial information concerning the content and aims of the study.

The initial model examined the impact of all predictors, including bereavement, adjusted for age, sex, and region.

Also bear in mind that for ethical reasons the researchers could only begin the interviews a month after bereavement, so they had no picture of an initial month that could include conflicting emotions.

Bereavement support standards for specialist palliative care services [ 20] have only recently been developed and, as such, have provided an initial, much needed framework to address the many complexities of bereavement care.

In sensitive research such as our bereavement surveys, provision of the questionnaire with the initial invitation to participate is particularly important.

However, it is also possible that exposure to the questionnaire may have decreased initial negative feelings towards the idea of answering a questionnaire on bereavement.

None of the 12 self-report measures was considered to be suitable for use in palliative care; as such, the initial aim to select existing grief measures for use in a bereavement risk assessment model was not achieved.

A recent empirical qualitative study [ 4] explored parents' experience of having their child managed at home from diagnosis and identified that, although parents experienced an initial grief response to the diagnosis similar to that usually associated with bereavement [ 12], they had a positive experience of home management.