title: [Parents' experience of the death of their baby with congenital disorder].
abstract: The purpose of this study is to determine the experiences of the parents after the death of a congenital abnormal baby. Parents who have lost a baby go through a process of grief. This also applies to parents of a baby with congenital abnormalities. Parents whose congenital abnormal baby dies, not only grieve because of the abnormality of their baby, but also because it died. Unstructured in-depth interviews were held with six couples within a year after the death of their babies. The experiences of the six couples were afterwards compared. A literature study was undertaken in order to determine what the conclusions of other researchers field were. The result of the literature study was compared with that of the present study. Recommendations are made at the end of this study on the practical applications, education and further research that can be undertaken on this subject.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: de Kock
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Nolte
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Dörfling
mesh_terms: D000013:Congenital Abnormalities; D003643:Death; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Ouers se belewenis van die dood van 'n baba met kongenitale afwykings.