Dale A Lund
Biographic Data
| ID | 355348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dale A Lund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dale A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lund |
| SIGNATURE | LUND D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1362-3680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Health profiles of spouse caregivers: The role of active coping and the risk for developing prolonged grief symptoms
Step Into Our Lives at the Funeral Home
Many people are curious about what goes on behind the scenes at a funeral home. Add a live-in family to this scenario, and you'll Step Into Our Lives at the Funeral Home. Shh! Be quiet! There's someone at the door! Don't ever talk about anything you have seen or heard concerning someone's death outside the walls of our home. Mourning families need to know they can trust our integrity and our ability to keep confidentiality. For the author's famil…
Cancer Caregivers’ Preparedness for Loss and Bereavement Outcomes: Do Preloss Caregiver Attributes Matter
Past studies examining the relationship between preparedness for loss and bereavement outcomes among caregivers of spouses/partners with life-limiting illness did not adequately account for preloss caregiver attributes that could potentially confound the relationship. Using a sample of spouse/partner cancer caregivers ( N = 226), we examined how preloss caregiver attributes were associated with how prepared one felt for loss and their role in the…
Spouse cancer caregivers' burden and distress at entry to home hospice: The role of relationship quality
High-quality relationships may be protective for family caregivers. This study focuses on relationship quality categories (supportive and ambivalent) in spouse caregivers in cancer home hospice. The goals of this article are to, first, describe relationship quality categories among end-of-life caregivers and, second, test the effects of relationship quality categories on caregiver burden and distress within a stress process model. Using questionn…
One Size Doesn’t Fit All”— Partners in Hospice Care, an Individualized Approach to Bereavement Intervention
We concluded in a recent study that a "one size fits all" approach typical of group interventions often does not adequately accommodate the range of situations, life experiences, and current needs of participants. We describe how this limitation informed the design and implementation of an individually-delivered intervention format more specifically tailored to the unique needs of each bereaved person. The intervention comprises one of three inte…
Spousal Bereavement following Cancer Death
Loss due to cancer could predispose surviving spouses or partners to a variety of negative outcomes. Although a terminal prognosis may provide opportunities to prepare for the loss, existing evidence is inconclusive as to whether death expectedness buffers potentially negative bereavement outcomes. Using data from the Living After Loss study, we examined longitudinally outcomes of bereaved individuals whose spouses/partners died from cancer (n = …
Coping Processes Among Bereaved Spouses
The authors investigated if an intervention based on the dual process model (vs. traditional bereavement support) enhanced oscillation between loss- (LO) and restoration-oriented (RO) coping of recently bereaved (2-6 months) spouses/partners. Participants were followed over 12 months. The authors found an increased emphasis over time on RO coping, particularly for women and those who were younger; however, no treatment effect was detected. Althou…
Experiences and Early Coping of Bereaved Spouses/Partners in an Intervention Based on the Dual Process Model (DPM)
This study was designed to test the effectiveness of the Dual Process Model (DPM) of coping with bereavement. The sample consisted of 298 recently widowed women (61%) and men age 50+ who participated in 14 weekly intervention sessions and also completed before (O1) and after (O2) self-administered questionnaires. While the study also includes two additional follow-up assessments (O3 and O4) that cover up to 14-16 months bereaved, this article exa…
Sampling, Recruitment, and Retention in a Bereavement Intervention Study: Experiences from the Living after Loss Project
This article reports on the sampling and recruitment challenges, as well as the strategies used to address them in the Living After Loss (LAL) project, a bereavement intervention study conducted in Salt Lake City and San Francisco comparing two 14-week group conditions with follow-up. We encountered three major challenges: 1) difficulty determining eligibility for some potential participants who were contacted, 2) locating and recruiting nonwhite…
A Tale of Two Counties: Bereavement in Socio-Demographically Diverse Places
The “Living After Loss” study was designed to test the effectiveness of the dual process model (DPM) of coping with bereavement. In order to obtain a larger and more diverse sample we studied 328 recently widowed men and women (61%) age 50+ in two counties, Salt Lake (SL) ( n = 197) and San Francisco (SF) ( n = 131) in two states, Utah and California. This article does not report on the effects of the intervention but focuses on a comparison of t…
Humor, Laughter, and Happiness in the Daily Lives of Recently Bereaved Spouses
The positive psychology movement has created more interest in examining the potential value of experiencing positive emotions (e.g., humor, laughter, and happiness) during the course of bereavement. This study of 292 recently widowed (5-24 weeks) men (39%) and women (61%) age 50 and over examined both the perceived importance of and actual experience of having positive emotions in their daily lives and how they might impact bereavement adjustment…
Toward the Development of an Inventory of Daily Widowed Life (IDWL): Guided by the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement
The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement (M. Stroebe & H. Schut, 1999) suggests that the most effective adaptation involves oscillation between 2 coping processes: loss-orientation (LO) and restoration-orientation (RO). A 22-item Inventory of Daily Widowed Life (IDWL) was developed to measure these processes and the oscillation between them and assessed by examining 163 bereaved widow(er)s, ages 45-94 years. The LO and RO subscales produ…
The Effects of Widowhood on Disabled Older Women (The Women's Health and Aging Study)
This study examined the effects of becoming widowed for older women with pre-existing physical disability. Data from three consecutive interviews from the Women's Health and Aging Study (WHAS) were used to compare depression, quality of life, and functional difficulty for widowed and non-widowed women. The two groups of 24 women were matched by age, disability level, domains of disability, and race. Repeated measures of analyses of variance (ANOV…
Promoting Self-Care and Daily Living Skills among Older Widows and Widowers: Evidence from the Pathfinders Demonstration Project
While most bereavement intervention programs for the recently widowed focus primarily on loss and grief issues, few, if any, specifically address ways to engage in necessary self-care activities, to assume new responsibilities that once belonged to their deceased spouse, and to remain socially connected to the larger community. The Pathfinders demonstration project was designed to provide important health and wellness information in a supportive …
Sleep Patterns in Older Bereaved Spouses
The study examined the prevalence and pattern of reports of sleep disturbance over two years in a group of 296 adults aged 50 years and over, and assessed the relationship between patterns of sleep disturbance and bereavement adjustment over time. A sample of 192 widows and widowers were compared to a matched sample of 104 non-bereaved persons. About half of the bereaved respondents experienced sleep disruption in the first month following their …
Maintaining Caregiving at Home: A Culturally Sensitive Grounded Theory of Providing Care in Thailand
Grounded theory methodology was used to generate a substantive theory that describes and explains the caregiving process of Thai caregivers for their elderly stroke relatives. Data were collected from a purposive sample of 20 family caregivers living in Chachoengsao province, Thailand, by using interviews, observations, and the primary researcher’s memos. The central idea emerging from the data was maintaining caregiving at home that encompassed …
Gray and green: Stewardship and sustainability in an aging society
Thirty-six years of independence in Nigeria: The Political Balance Sheet
This article presents the rationale for and description of a promising intervention, Time for Living and Caring (TLC), designed to enhance the effectiveness of respite services for family caregivers. It is guided by the theoretical principles of the Selective Optimization with Compensation (SOC) model, which individually coaches caregivers on how to assess their personal circumstances, identify their greatest needs and preferences, and engage in …
Future Directions in Adult Bereavement Research
The primary purpose of this article is to stimulate interest in conducting research related to adult bereavement and provide suggestions for improving the quality of these studies and the application of their findings. Future research needs to generate new knowledge about grief and bereavement but it also needs to examine issues and questions that will make us more confident about what we already believe. Three general suggestions deal with the i…
Beyond bereavement support group meetings: Exploring outside social contacts among the members
This article examines the extent to which bereavement support group participants engage in social interaction with fellow group members outside of the meetings, demographic influences on outside contact, and the relationship between this social interaction and bereavement outcomes. Data are presented from a longitudinal study that included 144 recently bereaved spouses between the ages of 51 and 89 who participated in a support group intervention…
Older Bereaved Spouses' Participation in Self-Help Groups
This study reports on bereaved spouses' assessments of their participation in twenty-six self-help groups which consisted of eight weekly meetings (short-term; N = 82) or ten monthly meetings in addition to the weekly ones (long-term; N = 52). Regardless of the duration of the groups whether they were led by a professional or a widowed peer, assessments were generally positive. The most commonly reported benefit the participants hoped to gain was…
Bereavement Stress and Coping among Older Adults: Expectations versus the Actual Experience
This investigation compared the stress and coping levels of 108 older adults who recently lost their spouse with expectations of stress and coping reported by eighty-five matched nonbereaved controls. While the bereaved reported moderately high stress levels over two years, their stress scores were lower and their coping scores were higher than what the nonbereaved anticipated their levels would be if their spouse died. The findings are consisten…
Bereaved older adults who seek early professional help
The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine the characteristics of older bereaved spouses who sought early professional help related to their grief. Among a sample of 339 bereaved older adults, aged 50 years or older, 39 (11.5%) reported that they had obtained some form of professional help. The most commonly reported source of help sought was from clergy followed by that provided by the health-care system and community groups. Those w…
Understanding the context of perceived health ratings: The case of spousal bereavement in later life
Stability of social support networks after later-life spousal bereavement
One hundred eight bereaved spouses between the ages of 50 and 89 completed six interviews/questionnaires over the first two years of bereavement in order to examine the degree of stability in the structural and qualitative aspects of their social support networks. Generally, the networks were quite positive and stable, particularly with respect to the qualitative indicators. The networks became concentrated in persons of the same sex as the respo…
Toward the Development of an Inventory of Daily Widowed Life (IDWL): Guided by the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement
The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement (M. Stroebe & H. Schut, 1999) suggests that the most effective adaptation involves oscillation between 2 coping processes: loss-orientation (LO) and restoration-orientation (RO). A 22-item Inventory of Daily Widowed Life (IDWL) was developed to measure these processes and the oscillation between them and assessed by examining 163 bereaved widow(er)s, ages 45-94 years. The LO and RO subscales produ…
Gray and green: Stewardship and sustainability in an aging society
Spouse cancer caregivers' burden and distress at entry to home hospice: The role of relationship quality
High-quality relationships may be protective for family caregivers. This study focuses on relationship quality categories (supportive and ambivalent) in spouse caregivers in cancer home hospice. The goals of this article are to, first, describe relationship quality categories among end-of-life caregivers and, second, test the effects of relationship quality categories on caregiver burden and distress within a stress process model. Using questionn…
Predictors of Loss Management and Well-Being in Later Life Widowhood and Divorce
The purpose of this study was to identify factors that seem substantially to affect the management of loss and subjective well-being of older divorced and widowed individuals. Data were obtained from 219 adults, ages 50-69 years, who were divorced or widowed within two years of interview. Stepwise regression analyses indicated that self-reported personal health was the major predictor of management of loss and well-being for both divorced and wid…
Bereavement and remarriage for older adults
The purpose of this study was to assess differences in bereavement outcomes between surviving spouses aged 50 and over who remarried within 4–5 years and those who did not. Fifteen bereaved respondents out of 192 in a longitudinal prospective study who later remarried were compared with 15 other matched nonremarried respondents. Analyses of sociodemographic data, standardized measures of depression, life-satisfaction, resolution of grief, and sel…
Health profiles of spouse caregivers: The role of active coping and the risk for developing prolonged grief symptoms
Stability of social support networks after later-life spousal bereavement
One hundred eight bereaved spouses between the ages of 50 and 89 completed six interviews/questionnaires over the first two years of bereavement in order to examine the degree of stability in the structural and qualitative aspects of their social support networks. Generally, the networks were quite positive and stable, particularly with respect to the qualitative indicators. The networks became concentrated in persons of the same sex as the respo…
Bereavement support groups for the elderly: Characteristics of potential participants
At the conclusion of a two-year longitudinal study of bereavement, 138 elderly persons were asked about their willingness to participate in support groups. Forty-four percent (N = 61) reported that they would have liked to participate. These persons were compared with those who did not want to participate with respect to sociodemographic, health, social support and psychosocial characteristics measured at six time periods. Nonstatistical patterns…
Spousal Bereavement following Cancer Death
Loss due to cancer could predispose surviving spouses or partners to a variety of negative outcomes. Although a terminal prognosis may provide opportunities to prepare for the loss, existing evidence is inconclusive as to whether death expectedness buffers potentially negative bereavement outcomes. Using data from the Living After Loss study, we examined longitudinally outcomes of bereaved individuals whose spouses/partners died from cancer (n = …
Coping Processes Among Bereaved Spouses
The authors investigated if an intervention based on the dual process model (vs. traditional bereavement support) enhanced oscillation between loss- (LO) and restoration-oriented (RO) coping of recently bereaved (2-6 months) spouses/partners. Participants were followed over 12 months. The authors found an increased emphasis over time on RO coping, particularly for women and those who were younger; however, no treatment effect was detected. Althou…
Bereaved older adults who seek early professional help
The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine the characteristics of older bereaved spouses who sought early professional help related to their grief. Among a sample of 339 bereaved older adults, aged 50 years or older, 39 (11.5%) reported that they had obtained some form of professional help. The most commonly reported source of help sought was from clergy followed by that provided by the health-care system and community groups. Those w…
Beyond bereavement support group meetings: Exploring outside social contacts among the members
This article examines the extent to which bereavement support group participants engage in social interaction with fellow group members outside of the meetings, demographic influences on outside contact, and the relationship between this social interaction and bereavement outcomes. Data are presented from a longitudinal study that included 144 recently bereaved spouses between the ages of 51 and 89 who participated in a support group intervention…
Impact of Bereavement on the Self-Conceptions of Older Surviving Spouses
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to assess the extent to which the social anchorage dimension of the self-concept is impacted by the death of a spouse among a sample of older surviving spouses. Social anchorage was measured by the Twenty Statements Test (TST) in mailed questionnaires and consisted of self-statements that signify important social relationships and group memberships. As hypothesized, the 42 bereaved persons had lower soci…
Sociology
Bereavement support groups for the elderly: Characteristics of potential participants
At the conclusion of a two-year longitudinal study of bereavement, 138 elderly persons were asked about their willingness to participate in support groups. Forty-four percent (N = 61) reported that they would have liked to participate. These persons were compared with those who did not want to participate with respect to sociodemographic, health, social support and psychosocial characteristics measured at six time periods. Nonstatistical patterns…
Identifying Elderly with Coping Difficulties after Two Years of Bereavement
This study answers three research questions. First, what proportion of the elderly are experiencing major coping difficulties after two years of bereavement? Second, what factors in early bereavement distinguish between those with difficulties and the others? Third, what set of factors are the best predictors of coping difficulties at two years? Of the 138 persons who completed a two-year longitudinal study of bereavement, twenty-five (18%) were …
Stress, Self-Esteem and Coping During Bereavement Among the Elderly
The purpose of the study was to assess the stability of self-esteem as a coping resource during bereavement and to develop a dynamic model of the efficacy of coping ability in relation to the perceived stressfulness of the spouse's death. Data were obtained from a longitudinal study of bereavement. Interviews and mailed questionnaires were completed by 192 persons at three time periods which covered the first year of bereavement. Results indicate…
Impact of Bereavement on the Self-Conceptions of Older Surviving Spouses
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to assess the extent to which the social anchorage dimension of the self-concept is impacted by the death of a spouse among a sample of older surviving spouses. Social anchorage was measured by the Twenty Statements Test (TST) in mailed questionnaires and consisted of self-statements that signify important social relationships and group memberships. As hypothesized, the 42 bereaved persons had lower soci…
Vulnerability factors and depressive symptoms among hospitalized women
Previous research has demonstrated that symptoms of depression and anxiety can impede the recovery process of hospitalized medical patients. The purpose of this study was to identify those hospitalized patients who were more likely to be predisposed to these symptoms. Using a sample of 109 hospitalized women, the following hypothesis was tested: Depressive symptoms will be more prevalent among those who (a) had experienced the loss of their mothe…
Bereavement and remarriage for older adults
The purpose of this study was to assess differences in bereavement outcomes between surviving spouses aged 50 and over who remarried within 4–5 years and those who did not. Fifteen bereaved respondents out of 192 in a longitudinal prospective study who later remarried were compared with 15 other matched nonremarried respondents. Analyses of sociodemographic data, standardized measures of depression, life-satisfaction, resolution of grief, and sel…
Intergenerational conflict: Middle-aged women caring for demented older relatives
This study examined the experiences of 181 middle-aged women who, while raising a family, were also primary care providers for an older demented relative. Results indicated that the caregiver burden depended on the context of the caregiving experience, particularly the relative's place of residence. Employment did not alter responsibilities but did affect coping strategies and perceived health of the caregiver
Older Widows' Early Bereavement Adjustments
Using a sample of 242 older widows at 2-3 months following the death of their spouse, the following research questions were examined: (1) What are the interrelationships among older widows' personal resources and their bereavement outcomes? (2) Do levels of these outcomes and personal resources differ according to age? (3) Is age related to both outside employment and income, and if so, do outcomes and personal resources differ according to these…
Predictors of Loss Management and Well-Being in Later Life Widowhood and Divorce
The purpose of this study was to identify factors that seem substantially to affect the management of loss and subjective well-being of older divorced and widowed individuals. Data were obtained from 219 adults, ages 50-69 years, who were divorced or widowed within two years of interview. Stepwise regression analyses indicated that self-reported personal health was the major predictor of management of loss and well-being for both divorced and wid…
Understanding the context of perceived health ratings: The case of spousal bereavement in later life
Stability of social support networks after later-life spousal bereavement
One hundred eight bereaved spouses between the ages of 50 and 89 completed six interviews/questionnaires over the first two years of bereavement in order to examine the degree of stability in the structural and qualitative aspects of their social support networks. Generally, the networks were quite positive and stable, particularly with respect to the qualitative indicators. The networks became concentrated in persons of the same sex as the respo…
Older Bereaved Spouses' Participation in Self-Help Groups
This study reports on bereaved spouses' assessments of their participation in twenty-six self-help groups which consisted of eight weekly meetings (short-term; N = 82) or ten monthly meetings in addition to the weekly ones (long-term; N = 52). Regardless of the duration of the groups whether they were led by a professional or a widowed peer, assessments were generally positive. The most commonly reported benefit the participants hoped to gain was…
Bereavement Stress and Coping among Older Adults: Expectations versus the Actual Experience
This investigation compared the stress and coping levels of 108 older adults who recently lost their spouse with expectations of stress and coping reported by eighty-five matched nonbereaved controls. While the bereaved reported moderately high stress levels over two years, their stress scores were lower and their coping scores were higher than what the nonbereaved anticipated their levels would be if their spouse died. The findings are consisten…
Bereaved older adults who seek early professional help
The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine the characteristics of older bereaved spouses who sought early professional help related to their grief. Among a sample of 339 bereaved older adults, aged 50 years or older, 39 (11.5%) reported that they had obtained some form of professional help. The most commonly reported source of help sought was from clergy followed by that provided by the health-care system and community groups. Those w…
Beyond bereavement support group meetings: Exploring outside social contacts among the members
This article examines the extent to which bereavement support group participants engage in social interaction with fellow group members outside of the meetings, demographic influences on outside contact, and the relationship between this social interaction and bereavement outcomes. Data are presented from a longitudinal study that included 144 recently bereaved spouses between the ages of 51 and 89 who participated in a support group intervention…
Future Directions in Adult Bereavement Research
The primary purpose of this article is to stimulate interest in conducting research related to adult bereavement and provide suggestions for improving the quality of these studies and the application of their findings. Future research needs to generate new knowledge about grief and bereavement but it also needs to examine issues and questions that will make us more confident about what we already believe. Three general suggestions deal with the i…
Maintaining Caregiving at Home: A Culturally Sensitive Grounded Theory of Providing Care in Thailand
Grounded theory methodology was used to generate a substantive theory that describes and explains the caregiving process of Thai caregivers for their elderly stroke relatives. Data were collected from a purposive sample of 20 family caregivers living in Chachoengsao province, Thailand, by using interviews, observations, and the primary researcher’s memos. The central idea emerging from the data was maintaining caregiving at home that encompassed …
Gray and green: Stewardship and sustainability in an aging society
Thirty-six years of independence in Nigeria: The Political Balance Sheet
This article presents the rationale for and description of a promising intervention, Time for Living and Caring (TLC), designed to enhance the effectiveness of respite services for family caregivers. It is guided by the theoretical principles of the Selective Optimization with Compensation (SOC) model, which individually coaches caregivers on how to assess their personal circumstances, identify their greatest needs and preferences, and engage in …
Sleep Patterns in Older Bereaved Spouses
The study examined the prevalence and pattern of reports of sleep disturbance over two years in a group of 296 adults aged 50 years and over, and assessed the relationship between patterns of sleep disturbance and bereavement adjustment over time. A sample of 192 widows and widowers were compared to a matched sample of 104 non-bereaved persons. About half of the bereaved respondents experienced sleep disruption in the first month following their …
Promoting Self-Care and Daily Living Skills among Older Widows and Widowers: Evidence from the Pathfinders Demonstration Project
While most bereavement intervention programs for the recently widowed focus primarily on loss and grief issues, few, if any, specifically address ways to engage in necessary self-care activities, to assume new responsibilities that once belonged to their deceased spouse, and to remain socially connected to the larger community. The Pathfinders demonstration project was designed to provide important health and wellness information in a supportive …
The Effects of Widowhood on Disabled Older Women (The Women's Health and Aging Study)
This study examined the effects of becoming widowed for older women with pre-existing physical disability. Data from three consecutive interviews from the Women's Health and Aging Study (WHAS) were used to compare depression, quality of life, and functional difficulty for widowed and non-widowed women. The two groups of 24 women were matched by age, disability level, domains of disability, and race. Repeated measures of analyses of variance (ANOV…
Toward the Development of an Inventory of Daily Widowed Life (IDWL): Guided by the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement
The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement (M. Stroebe & H. Schut, 1999) suggests that the most effective adaptation involves oscillation between 2 coping processes: loss-orientation (LO) and restoration-orientation (RO). A 22-item Inventory of Daily Widowed Life (IDWL) was developed to measure these processes and the oscillation between them and assessed by examining 163 bereaved widow(er)s, ages 45-94 years. The LO and RO subscales produ…
Humor, Laughter, and Happiness in the Daily Lives of Recently Bereaved Spouses
The positive psychology movement has created more interest in examining the potential value of experiencing positive emotions (e.g., humor, laughter, and happiness) during the course of bereavement. This study of 292 recently widowed (5-24 weeks) men (39%) and women (61%) age 50 and over examined both the perceived importance of and actual experience of having positive emotions in their daily lives and how they might impact bereavement adjustment…
Psychology (30 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (27 works) · Medicine (22 works) · Clinical Psychology (21 works) · Psychiatry (18 works) · Clinical Psychology (17 works) · Gerontology (17 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works)