Impact of Psychological Grief Counseling on the Severity of Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Mothers after Stillbirths
| Autor: | Mansour Shakiba, Ali Navidian, Zahra Saravani |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Postnatal Care
Adult medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention Directive Counseling Mothers law.invention Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Randomized controlled trial law Intervention (counseling) medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Young adult Psychiatry media_common 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine business.industry Traumatic stress Stillbirth Psychotherapy Grief Female Pshychiatric Mental Health business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Issues in mental health nursing. 38(8) |
| ISSN: | 1096-4673 |
| Popis: | Planned support and interventions are necessary in the care and support of women who have experienced stillbirth. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of psychological grief counseling on the symptom severity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in mothers after stillbirths. This interventional study is semi-experimental. The study was conducted on 100 women who had recently had stillbirths. Eligible samples were selected and randomly divided into the two groups of intervention and control. The data collection tool was the PPQ,1 which was completed as a pre-test and post-test in both groups. The intervention group received four sessions of psychological grief counseling over two weeks, and the control group received only routine postnatal care. PTSD severity was evaluated in both groups at the end of the fourth week after the final session. The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference in the mean score of the severity of the PTSD symptoms in both groups after the intervention (P = 0.0001), which means that psychological grief counseling led to the reduction of PTSD severity in mothers. Given the positive impact of psychological grief counseling on reducing the severity of PTSD, integration of intensive psychological interventions in the maternity care system seems essential for faster transition of grief stages and for the prevention of severe cases of PTSD. |
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