Family members of deceased palliative care patients receiving bereavement anniversary cards: a survey on the recipient's reactions and opinions
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Family members of deceased palliative care patients receiving bereavement anniversary cards: a survey on the recipient's reactions and opinions. / Goebel, Swantje; Mai, Sandra Stephanie; Gerlach, Christina; Windschmitt, Ulrike; Feldmann, Karl-Heinz; Weber, Martin.
In: BMC PALLIAT CARE, Vol. 16, No. 1, 19.04.2017, p. 26.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Family members of deceased palliative care patients receiving bereavement anniversary cards: a survey on the recipient's reactions and opinions
AU - Goebel, Swantje
AU - Mai, Sandra Stephanie
AU - Gerlach, Christina
AU - Windschmitt, Ulrike
AU - Feldmann, Karl-Heinz
AU - Weber, Martin
PY - 2017/4/19
Y1 - 2017/4/19
N2 - BACKGROUND: Bereavement support is part of palliative care. Sending out bereavement anniversary cards is one intervention of follow-up support for the bereaved. This study evaluated the suitability of bereavement anniversary cards as an appropriate method in bereavement care.METHODS: A questionnaire was sent to each card recipient since the starting point of this practice (October 2014-June 2015). Data was analyzed descriptively.RESULTS: 24 of 68 deliverable questionnaires were returned (response rate 35%). 22 out of 24 recipients felt pleased receiving the card. No participant felt annoyed on receiving the bereavement anniversary card; every participant agreed to at least one positive reaction (i.e. pleased, grateful or consoled).CONCLUSIONS: The participants' reactions and opinions about receiving the anniversary card were decidedly positive and indicate the continuation of this practice. Those few less pleased reactions may be related to timing and the first anniversary of the patients' death and therefore an expression of grief rather than a dissatisfaction with bereavement anniversary cards, as such.
AB - BACKGROUND: Bereavement support is part of palliative care. Sending out bereavement anniversary cards is one intervention of follow-up support for the bereaved. This study evaluated the suitability of bereavement anniversary cards as an appropriate method in bereavement care.METHODS: A questionnaire was sent to each card recipient since the starting point of this practice (October 2014-June 2015). Data was analyzed descriptively.RESULTS: 24 of 68 deliverable questionnaires were returned (response rate 35%). 22 out of 24 recipients felt pleased receiving the card. No participant felt annoyed on receiving the bereavement anniversary card; every participant agreed to at least one positive reaction (i.e. pleased, grateful or consoled).CONCLUSIONS: The participants' reactions and opinions about receiving the anniversary card were decidedly positive and indicate the continuation of this practice. Those few less pleased reactions may be related to timing and the first anniversary of the patients' death and therefore an expression of grief rather than a dissatisfaction with bereavement anniversary cards, as such.
KW - Aged
KW - Aged, 80 and over
KW - Anniversaries and Special Events
KW - Death
KW - Family/psychology
KW - Female
KW - Hospice Care/methods
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Palliative Care/methods
KW - Perception
KW - Surveys and Questionnaires
U2 - 10.1186/s12904-017-0199-7
DO - 10.1186/s12904-017-0199-7
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 28424058
VL - 16
SP - 26
JO - BMC PALLIAT CARE
JF - BMC PALLIAT CARE
SN - 1472-684X
IS - 1
ER -
