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Nurses Attitudes Towards Perinatal Bereavement Care, Chan Moon Fai, David Arthur
Nurses Attitudes Towards Perinatal Bereavement Care, Chan Moon Fai, David Arthur
School of Nursing & Midwifery
Aim: This paper is a report of a study conducted to explore the factors associated with nurses and midwives’ attitudes towards perinatal bereavement care.
Background: Caring for and supporting parents whose infant has died is extremely demanding, difficult and stressful. In some situations nurses may experience personal failure, feel helpless, and need to distance themselves from bereaved parents because they feel unable to deal with the enormity of the parental feelings of loss.
Method: A correlational questionnaire study using convenience sampling was carried out in Singapore in 2007 with 185 nurses/midwives in one obstetrics and gynaecology unit.
Results: Regression models …