Bereavement care guidelines used in health care facilities immediately following perinatal loss: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of the scoping review was to explore the evidence and describe what is known about perinatal bereavement care guidelines provided within health care facilities prior to discharge. Additionally, the review sought to identify what is known about parents' mental health outcomes, and map these outcomes to the characteristics of the bereavement care guidelines.

Introduction

Perinatal loss poses a serious risk of emotional trauma and mental health sequelae. Conflicting evidence for international bereavement care guidelines and inconsistent implementation, a lack of experimental studies, and older syntheses with a limited focus or population made synthesis complex. Therefore, a scoping review was undertaken to determine the breadth and depth of the existing

SUBMITTER: Roberts LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11462878 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature