title: [Perinatal and intrauterine infant death: professional practices and their effects on healthcare personnel].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The sorrow caused by perinatal loss is a phenomenon of pathological mourning, a burden for the parents, their environment and the medical personnel, yet, it is a less studied field.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  (1) To present the applied practice in healthcare institutions, to compare the valid protocol with the effective help provided and to study how these events affect the helping personnel professionally and psychologically.
  
  
  METHODS
  In-depth interviews with the involved personnel (n = 8). The authors studied the practice of the given institution; existing and wanted theoretical and practical competencies; personal attitude and the experienced difficulties.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Acting well professionally is a specially demanding task, with few tools to use when communicating, when helping the parents cope with sorrow, or when coping with their own feelings, all these involving a risk for burn-out.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results can serve to create trainings aimed at helping the patients with adequate support and improving coping strategies.
authors.affiliation: Magatartástudományi Intézet, Semmelweis Egyetem, Általános Orvostudományi Kar Budapest.
authors.forename: Éva
authors.initials: É
authors.lastname: Zsák
authors.forename: Zsuzsa
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kovácsné Török
authors.forename: Katalin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hegedűs
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002048:Burial / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D007223:Infant; D066088:Infant Death; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D033262:Narration; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D036801:Parturition / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D050497:Stillbirth / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology*
keywords: complicated grief; intrauterin loss; intrauterin veszteség; komplikált gyász; neonatal death; perinatal grief; perinatalis gyász; praenatalis gyász; prenatal grief; újszülött halála