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KMID : 0613620200400040360
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Health Social Welfare Review
2020 Volume.40 No. 4 p.360 ~ p.400
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Needs and Preferences of Bereavement Support Services from the Perspectives of Parents Who Lost a Child and Adolescents with Cancer
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Kim Min-Ah
Kim Chan-Kwon
Jung Dae-Hee
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Abstract
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Bereavement support services are important to help bereaved parents who lost their child to cancer cope with grief and find new meaning in living after the death of child. This study examined the bereavement service needs and preferences of bereaved parents who lost a child and adolescents with cancer. A total of 58 bereaved parents who lost a child to cancer participated in a questionnaire that assessed helpfulness ratings, actual and projected service utilization of bereavement support services, and preferences for topics they would like to discuss about regarding bereavement services. Frequency and descriptive analyses and independent t-test were conducted. Participants reported time alone with deceased child and quiet room after death would be the most helpful. The degree to which the service is perceived to be helpful was different by gender, age, and diagnosis. The most commonly used services were chaplain before or at the time of death and support groups. Preferred topics for bereavement services were different by age, education, income, religion, other surviving children, diagnosis, child’s age at the time of death. This study informs provision of opportunities that share bereaved parents’ needs about the support services as well as provision of bereavement support services based on their needs, and thus, helping them grieve and recover their life
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KEYWORD
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Cancer in Children and Adolescent,, Bereaved Parents, Bereavement Support Services, Service Needs, Service Preferences
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