Assessing children's and teenagers' bereavement when a sibling dies from cancer: a secondary analysis.
The purposes of this paper are to: (1) provide conceptual and empirical descriptions of the most frequently reported children's and teenagers' responses in anticipation of and after the death of a sibling from cancer; (2) describe these behaviours by age groups (3-5, 6-11 and 12-19 years); and (3) discuss the clinical utility of two new scales measuring children's bereavement. The literature review and an exploratory secondary analysis from a prospective longitudinal design were used to develop the empirical criteria for behavioural items indicative of bereavement. Data from four points in time: (1) 2 months before a child's death; (2) 2 weeks after death; (3) 4 months after death; and (4) 12 months after death were treated as a cross-sectional design, because of sample size, to describe bereavement behaviours and to discuss the beginning development of a screening tool for childhood bereavement services
Birenbaum
L K
LK
Oregon Health Division, Portland, OR, USA.
D000293:Adolescent; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001601:Bereavement; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004644:Emotions; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms; D011594:Psychometrics