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Parental attitudes towards the mode of death of their newborn infants
Author(s) -
PEMBERTON PATRICK J.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1981.tb01959.x
Subject(s) - medicine , grief , neonatal intensive care unit , pathological , pediatrics , psychiatry
. The mode of death of newborn infants may have great importance in subsequent parental bereavement responses. With support and encouragement, parents should be able to involve themselves in the care of their dying newborn, with subsequent reduction of pathological grief responses. Three cases in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit are described to illustrate this process.