'Stories of Loss'-Designing and Evaluating a Patient-Led Perinatal Bereavement Programme for Medical Students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providing bereavement support to parents who have experienced a perinatal loss requires knowledge, empathy and sensitivity. Undergraduate opportunities to learn directly from parents with personal experience remain limited. This study assessed medical students' responses to parent-led stories on perinatal loss, evaluating their self-reported changes in knowledge, skills and self-awareness.

Approach

Final-year medical students in University College Dublin participated in a new educational initiative featuring parent-educators from three perinatal loss advocacy groups. Each session focused on the parents' personal experiences of pregnancy loss and was designed collaboratively with the authors and independently led by the parents.

Evaluation

Evaluation used a

SUBMITTER: Kennedy C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12268117 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature