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Review
. 2022 Mar 3;19(5):2968.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph19052968.

Bereavement Needs Assessment in Nurses: Elaboration and Content Validation of a Professional Traumatic Grief Scale

Ester Gilart  1 , Isabel Lepiani  2 , María Dueñas  3   4 , Maria José Cantizano Nuñez  5 , Belen Gutierrez Baena  2 , Anna Bocchino  2
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Bereavement Needs Assessment in Nurses: Elaboration and Content Validation of a Professional Traumatic Grief Scale

Ester Gilart et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a series of biopsychosocial repercussions among nursing professionals. The impossibility of anticipating the events, the numerous deaths, the excessive workload, the lack of personal health and the necessary means of protection made it difficult to regulate the impact and the elaboration of grief to the point of becoming, on many occasions, a traumatic grief whose physical and psychological manifestations are becoming more and more evident. The main objective of this research was to develop a scale for a group of symptoms based on professional traumatic grief. The development consisted of two phases: (I) instrument design through a literature review and focus groups of bereavement experts and healthcare professionals who experience the grief process in their work; and (II) validation of the content of the instrument. A total of 25 final items were established as suitable for inclusion in the instrument. It is expected that the experiences and results obtained through the development and validation of a scale of specific symptomatology of professional traumatic grief in health professionals will allow the assessment and detection of symptomatology in order to develop programs and strategies for early intervention and prevention.

Keywords: COVID-19; nursing; scale; traumatic grief; validation.

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The article is the authors’ original work. The article has not been published previously and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. On behalf of all the co-authors, the corresponding author shall bear full responsibility for the submission. We attest to the fact that all the authors listed on the title page have contributed significantly to the work, have read the manuscript, attested to the validity and legitimacy of the data and their interpretation and agreed to its submission to the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. All authors agree that the author list is correct in its content and order and that no modification to the author list can be made without the formal approval of the Editor-in-Chief.

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