Matching response to need: What makes social networks fit for providing bereavement support?

ABSTRACT: The objectives of this study were to explore the goodness of fit between the bereaved peoples' needs and the support offered by their social networks; to ascertain whether this support was experienced as helpful or unhelpful by bereaved people; and to explore both the types of social networks that offer effective support and the characteristics of the communities that encourage and nurture such networks. This study was based on qualitative interviews from twenty bereaved people, in Western Australia, interviewed in 2013. A framework analysis of these interviews was undertaken using a deductive approach based on the goodness of fit framework. Much of this support is provided informally in community settings by a range of people already involved in the everyday lives of those recently bereav

SUBMITTER: Aoun SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6405096 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature