Establishing global standards for compassionate care.
Perinatal Loss and Maternal Mental Health
1 in 5 Mothers are Impacted by Mental Health Conditions.
Maternal mental health (MMH) conditions are the MOST COMMON complication of pregnancy and birth, affecting 800,000 families each year in the U.S.
Reproductive grief care: Information on global Reproductive Grief Care as presented in the Sigma Repository
This course will help nurses to recognize reproductive loss, grief reactions, and help patients to actualize the loss, validate the grief, and begin to cope with their loss.
Tackling burnout, exhaustion, and compassion fatigue: A collection of research
Our team spent months gathering the latest and most impactful research on preventing burnout, exhaustion, and compassion fatigue, especially as it affects perinatal and palliative healthcare, to create this study that analyzes this body of work.
Uncovering Prolonged Grief Reactions Subsequent to a Reproductive Loss: Implications for the Primary Care Provider
There is a paucity of clinical guidelines for the routine assessment of maladaptive reproductive grief reactions in outpatient primary care and OB-GYN settings in the United States.
Promoting a healing trajectory: Providing reproductive bereavement care for the sexually exploited
Roughly ninety per cent of exploited or enslaved individuals are trafficked into the sex industry, increasing the risk for unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections and pelvic inflammatory infections which can increase risk for pregnancy loss and infertility.
Tasked for Compassion: Initiating Reproductive Grief Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
The experience of parenting a premature or ill infant in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can be overwhelming and traumatic.
There’s No Time Limit on Grief
Women’s perspectives on a novel reproductive grief screening tool.
Validation of a Brief Measure for Complicated Grief Specific to Reproductive Loss
Stigma can delay treatment and worsen outcomes.
The Trauma of Perinatal Loss
60% of bereaved parents exhibit symptoms of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Held and Heartfelt: Compounded Grief in Healthcare Professionals’ Experiences of Pregnancy Loss.
The loss of a pregnancy can be an emotionally traumatic experience and the support or lack of support from professional care providers and systematic barriers within healthcare organizations impacts the grieving trajectory.