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Primary care providers' bereavement care practices
— recommendations for research directions | | Author(s) | Angela R Ghesquiere, Sapana R Patel, Daniel B Kaplan |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 29, no 12, December 2014 |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell, December 2014 |
| Pages | pp 1221-1229 |
| Source | www.orangejournal.org |
| Keywords | Bereavement ; Depression ; General practice ; Psychiatric treatment ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Bereaved patients are often seen in primary care settings. Although most do not require formal support, physicians may be called upon to provide support to some bereaved, particularly those with bereavement-related mental health disorders like complicated grief and bereavement-related depression. Research evidence on physician bereavement care is scant. The present study makes recommendations for future research in this area. A literature review was conducted focusing on studies conducted between 1996 and 2013 in the United States. The limited existing research indicated substantial gaps in the research literature, especially in the areas of primary care physician skill and capacity, patient-level outcomes and the quality of research methodology. No US studies focused specifically on care for bereavement-related mental health disorders. The authors provide recommendations about how to improve research about primary bereavement care. The study concludes that the primary care sector offers ample opportunities for research on bereavement care. With greater research efforts, there may be improvements to quality of bereavement care in primary care in general, and also to the accurate detection and appropriate referral for bereavement-related mental health conditions. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150529263 A |
| Classmark | DW: ENR: L5: LP: 64A |
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