title: Perinatal loss and parental bereavement.
abstract: The authors studied 25 middle-class pregnant women and their husbands who had experienced perinatal losses (16 miscarriages, seven stillbirths, and two neonatal deaths) within the previous 2 years. The Perinatal Bereavement Scale was designed to determine whether parents who have experienced a late perinatal loss (stillbirth or neonatal death) display more unresolved grief during a subsequent pregnancy and during the postnatal period than parents who have experienced a miscarriage. A three-factor repeated measures analysis of variance indicated significantly greater grief for the late-loss group, for the mothers, and during the pregnancy preceding the birth of the viable child.
authors.affiliation: Child and Family Research Section, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Md.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Theut
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Pedersen
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Zaslow
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Cain
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Rabinovich
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Morihisa
mesh_terms: D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous; D000328:Adult; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011247:Pregnancy; D011594:Psychometrics; D012923:Social Class