title: Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in reducing grief experienced by family carers of people with dementia: a systematic review protocol.
abstract: The objective is to examine the existing evidence regarding the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions to assist grief pre- and post-bereavement for family carers of people with dementia residing in the community or in a health or social care facility.
  
  
  
  What psychosocial interventions for family carers of people with dementia are most effective in reducing: (1) anticipatory grief, (2) post-death grief (bereavement), and (3) complicated grief?
authors.affiliation: 1School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University 2Western Australian Group for Evidence Informed Healthcare Practice: a Collaborating Centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 3Menzies Health Institute, Griffith University 4School of Nursing and Dementia Collaborative Research Centre: Carers and Consumers, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Toye
authors.forename: Samar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aoun
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Slatyer
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Moyle
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Beattie
mesh_terms: D001601:Bereavement; D017028:Caregivers; D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing*; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D000078202:Systematic Reviews as Topic