Narratives for Bereaved Parents Who Have Experienced the Crisis of Perinatal Loss and Then Reconstructed Their New Family

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23593341
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Lifelong developmental nursing
• Research Institution: St. Luke's International University
• Principal Investigator: HIRUTA Akiko 聖路加国際大学, 看護学部, 助教 (80584440)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HORIUCHI Shigeko 聖路加国際大学, 看護学部, 教授 (70157056) ; OTA Naoko 静岡県立大学, 看護学部, 教授 (50285053)
• Research Collaborator: ISHI Keiko
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 周産期喪失 / 夫婦 / 家族 / サポート / 語り / グリーフ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study was to develop a support tool for bereaved parents who have lost their babies due to perinatal loss. We interviewed 31 fathers and mothers. Although all couples have their own unique stories, there were common factors that encourage forming a new family that includes the child who is no longer present in bodily form. The factors were to ;1) get their own support from others outside the family who show respect, sympathy and consideration other than those inside the family, 2) be able to anticipate the fluctuation of each other’ s feeling due to deep sorrow, 3) be in a comfortable state as a family where-in their deceased child exists with them.
We made two narratives in leaflets format, one is for a couple and the other is for the grandparents of the deceased child.

Free Research Field

助産学