Kirjallisuuskatsaus: Vanhempien selviytymistä edistävät ja estävät tekijät lapsen kuoleman jälkeen

Authors

• Anna L. Aho Tampereen yliopisto
• Sirkku Savolainen Tampereen yliopisto

Abstract

A literature Review: Factors that promote and prevent the coping of parents with a child’s death

The purpose of this literature review is to describe factors that promote and prevent the coping of parents with the death of their child from the parents’ point of view. The aim of the study is to get such knowledge of the parents’ coping that can be used in the development of nursing practice. The data consists of scientific, peer-reviewed articles (n=20) that were analysed with inductive content analysis. Good treatment of the child’s disease and facing the child’s death, social support after the child’s death, and active grieving were factors that promoted the parents’ coping. Factors preventing the parents from coping were the unsatisfactory treatment of the child’s disease and facing the child’s death, missing or inconvenient social support after the child’s death, and clinging to the grief. This literature review provides knowledge of the coping of parents to all who face a child’s death. Challenges for the future are developing practice that takes parents` needs into consideration, developing different forms of social support, and developing interventions that promote parents` active grieving.