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

Ester Gilart, Isabel Lepiani, María Dueñas, Maria José Cantizano Nuñez, Belen Gutierrez Baena and Anna Bocchino
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Ester Gilart: University Hospital Jerez de la Frontera, 11407 Cadiz, Spain
Isabel Lepiani: Nursing University Salus Infirmorum, 11001 Cadiz, Spain
María Dueñas: Department of Statistics and Operational Research, University of Cadiz, 11406 Cadiz, Spain
Maria José Cantizano Nuñez: Emergency Department Bahia de Cadiz, La Janda, 11001 Cadiz, Spain
Belen Gutierrez Baena: Nursing University Salus Infirmorum, 11001 Cadiz, Spain
Anna Bocchino: Nursing University Salus Infirmorum, 11001 Cadiz, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 5, 1-15

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: nursing; COVID-19; traumatic grief; scale; validation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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