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Silent loss and the clinical encounter: Parents’ and physicians’ experiences of stillbirth–a qualitative analysis

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, November 2012
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Title
Silent loss and the clinical encounter: Parents’ and physicians’ experiences of stillbirth–a qualitative analysis
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, November 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2393-12-137
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Authors

Maureen C Kelley, Susan B Trinidad

Abstract

In the United States, an estimated 70 stillbirths occur each day, on average 25,000 each year. Research into the prevalence and causes of stillbirth is ongoing, but meanwhile, many parents suffer this devastating loss, largely in silence, due to persistent stigma and taboo; and many health providers report feeling ill equipped to support grieving parents. Interventions to address bereavement after neonatal death are increasingly common in U.S. hospitals, and there is growing data on the nature of parent bereavement after a stillbirth. However, further research is needed to evaluate supportive interventions and to investigate the parent-clinician encounter during hospitalization following a stillbirth. Qualitative inquiry offers opportunities to better understand the lived experience of parents against the backdrop of clinicians' beliefs, intentions, and well-meaning efforts to support grieving parents.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 286 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 45 15%
Student > Bachelor 37 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 7%
Researcher 20 7%
Other 59 20%
Unknown 80 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 57 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 53 18%
Psychology 48 16%
Social Sciences 20 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 2%
Other 27 9%
Unknown 82 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 May 2020.
All research outputs
#1,799,480
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#450
of 4,379 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,610
of 282,505 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#4
of 53 outputs
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