The Impact of Palliative Care on Bereaved Family Members
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2013-05
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The Ohio State University
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Experiencing a loved one’s death in a hospital can be especially distressing. Research has not yet explored which specific hospital experiences contribute to family member psychological distress. To address this gap in the literature, the goals of this project were to (1) to investigate whether palliative care helps decrease depression, PTSD, and complicated grief in family members of chronically ill patients, and (2) to investigate if the issues most distressing to family members during their last hospital stay were addressed by health care providers.
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paliative care, bereavement, grief, hospital, depression