Kristine Berg Titlestad
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6516288 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kristine Berg Titlestad |
| PRENOMES | Kristine Berg |
| SOBRENOME | Titlestad |
| ASSINATURA | TITLESTAD K B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0039-4113 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Significance of Social Context and Implications for Social Work
Social factors profoundly shape the bereavement process for individuals who have lost someone to a drug-related death. In this study, we integrate qualitative (n = 19), quantitative (n = 5), and mixed-methods (n = 2) results from a large research project on drug-related bereavement and utilise Bronfenbrenner and Morris’s bioecological model as an analytical framework. The results of the project demonstrate that bereavement following a drug-relate…
Predictors of Stigma, Guilt, and Shame among Adults Bereaved by Fatal Overdose
With the spectacular rise of US overdose deaths, bereavement for these affected families has become a matter of increasing concern. Qualitative research has highlighted the role of stigmatization as well as guilt and shame among this population. However, the magnitude and pre-death predictors of stigmatization, guilt, and shame have yet to be assessed quantitatively. In the current study, we assess the magnitude of stigmatization, guilt, and sham…
What do Professional Helpers Describe as Important Competence when Supporting Persons Bereaved by a Drug-Related Death
Bereaved persons following a drug-related death (DRD) experience significant stress, an increased risk of health-related problems, complicated grief reactions and a risk of higher mortality. Despite the support received from professional helpers being important, research has yet to examine their perspectives to understand and meet the bereaved's needs and increase the helpers' competence. Hence, this qualitative study explored professional helper…
Drug Death-Bereaved Parents’ Perspectives on Family Interactions and Help Needs
Family relations are essential for the bereaved in terms of healing and adjusting to life, especially after experiencing a traumatic death. Although 500 000 people die in drug-related deaths each year, few works focus on family interactions and the help needs of those bereaved by such losses. In this qualitative study, we interviewed 14 parents who had lost their child through a drug-related death. Through a reflexive thematic analysis, we genera…
An unknown invisible intrusion. Impact of an adult family member’s problematic substance use on family life
Problematic substance use (PSU) has documented consequences for the person using substances and people close to that person. This meta-ethnography aims to provide insight into how families experience family life when adult family members PSU is present. The titles and abstracts of 24,423 retrieved studies were assessed against the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Fifteen qualitative primary articles, including 393 different family members experi…
Why Informal Support Fails for Siblings Bereaved by a Drug-Related Death
Drug-related deaths constitute a significant challenge that strongly impacts the lives of the bereaved and the risks of mental and social problems are well-documented. This paper is the first one to explore how bereaved siblings experience informal support after drug-related deaths. Reflexive thematic analysis is used to analyze ten semi-structured interviews with bereaved siblings. Three main themes were identified: (1) valued support elaborates…
Does ‘Time Heal all Wounds?’ The Prevalence and Predictors of Prolonged Grief Among Drug-Death Bereaved Family Members
Despite rising rates of drug-related deaths (DRDs), the consequences of DRDs for bereaved family members are scarcely investigated. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of prolonged grief (PG) symptoms in bereaved family members after DRDs, identify predictors of PG and examine whether symptom levels decrease with time. A cross-sectional design based on survey data from parents ( n = 93), siblings ( n = 78), children ( n = 24) and other fa…
The social health domain of people bereaved by a drug-related death and associations with professional help
People bereaved by traumatic deaths are vulnerable to long-lasting impairments in social health, including the quality of social relationships and the capacity to manage their social lives. In this Norwegian study involving 255 participants bereaved by a drug-related death, we aimed to investigate their social health and associations with professional help. The results of a cross-sectional survey showed that participants on average rated their so…
Examining grieving problem correlates of anticipation of the death vs. shock among overdose death and suicide bereaved adults
We conducted an online survey with individuals bereaved by drug deaths ( n = 115), suicide ( n = 185) and sudden natural deaths ( n = 103), including questions about anticipating the death vs. shock, other behaviors, established measures of mental health and grieving difficulties. Results showed more drug death bereaved anticipating their loved one's death while suicide bereaved were more shocked. Death shocked respondents showed greater PTSD, ot…
How do family members experience drug death bereavement? A systematic review of the literature
Prevalence and predictors of prolonged grief symptoms among those bereaved from a drug-related death in a convenience sample of Norwegian parents
Drug-death bereaved parents are at risk of high levels of prolonged grief (PG) symptoms. We included 93 Norwegian drug-death bereaved parents in a cross-sectional survey and aimed to explain PG symptoms. High levels of PG symptoms (M = 30.69) were identified. Low level of self-efficacy and withdrawal from others were the most strongly associated with high levels of grief symptoms ( p < .001). However, contrary to our expectations, social support,…
Sounds of silence. The “special grief” of drug-death bereaved parents
Background: Drug-death bereavement is an understudied topic. We explore what bereaved parents experience after losing their child to drug use. The aim of the paper is to provide knowledge about what drug-death bereaved parents go through and study the kinds of help and support they receive.\n\nMethod: Reflexive thematic analysis is used to analyze 14 semi-structured in-depth interviews with Norwegian parents.\n\nResults: We generated four main th…
Drug-Related Death Bereavement
Kelly Thomas first contacted us briefly—but to us so poignantly—about an earlier publication of ours on Drug-Related Death (DRD) bereavement entitled Sounds of silence. The ‘special grief’ of drug-death bereaved parents (Titlestad et al., 2020). He commented: It is coming up on the 3 years since we lost our daughter at age 21 in a DRD. I have found my wife listening to the song your paper refers to more times than I would like to count. I cried a…
How Do Drug-Death-Bereaved Parents Adjust to Life Without the Deceased? A Qualitative Study
Knowledge about how bereaved persons grieve can enhance quality in providing the support and potential services that they need. We aimed to identify ways in which drug-death-bereaved Norwegian parents go on with their lives and what inhibits or promotes adaptation during their grieving. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyze 14 semistructured in-depth interviews. We generated three themes: (I) processing grief emotions, (II) proactive co…
The special grief following drug related deaths
Background: In most European countries and in the US, there has been a negative trend with increasing incident rates of drug related deaths (DRD) during the last decade. In 2017, the mortality rate due to overdoses reached epidemic proportions in the United States; i.e. the age-adjusted rate of drug overdoses reached 21.7 per 100,000, being 9.6% higher than the 2016 rate. Increasing, still lower, rates are seen in European countries. Behind these…
Prevalence and predictors of prolonged grief symptoms among those bereaved from a drug-related death in a convenience sample of Norwegian parents
Drug-death bereaved parents are at risk of high levels of prolonged grief (PG) symptoms. We included 93 Norwegian drug-death bereaved parents in a cross-sectional survey and aimed to explain PG symptoms. High levels of PG symptoms (M = 30.69) were identified. Low level of self-efficacy and withdrawal from others were the most strongly associated with high levels of grief symptoms ( p < .001). However, contrary to our expectations, social support,…
The social health domain of people bereaved by a drug-related death and associations with professional help
People bereaved by traumatic deaths are vulnerable to long-lasting impairments in social health, including the quality of social relationships and the capacity to manage their social lives. In this Norwegian study involving 255 participants bereaved by a drug-related death, we aimed to investigate their social health and associations with professional help. The results of a cross-sectional survey showed that participants on average rated their so…
Examining grieving problem correlates of anticipation of the death vs. shock among overdose death and suicide bereaved adults
We conducted an online survey with individuals bereaved by drug deaths ( n = 115), suicide ( n = 185) and sudden natural deaths ( n = 103), including questions about anticipating the death vs. shock, other behaviors, established measures of mental health and grieving difficulties. Results showed more drug death bereaved anticipating their loved one's death while suicide bereaved were more shocked. Death shocked respondents showed greater PTSD, ot…
The special grief following drug related deaths
Background: In most European countries and in the US, there has been a negative trend with increasing incident rates of drug related deaths (DRD) during the last decade. In 2017, the mortality rate due to overdoses reached epidemic proportions in the United States; i.e. the age-adjusted rate of drug overdoses reached 21.7 per 100,000, being 9.6% higher than the 2016 rate. Increasing, still lower, rates are seen in European countries. Behind these…
Sounds of silence. The “special grief” of drug-death bereaved parents
Background: Drug-death bereavement is an understudied topic. We explore what bereaved parents experience after losing their child to drug use. The aim of the paper is to provide knowledge about what drug-death bereaved parents go through and study the kinds of help and support they receive.\n\nMethod: Reflexive thematic analysis is used to analyze 14 semi-structured in-depth interviews with Norwegian parents.\n\nResults: We generated four main th…
Drug-Related Death Bereavement
Kelly Thomas first contacted us briefly—but to us so poignantly—about an earlier publication of ours on Drug-Related Death (DRD) bereavement entitled Sounds of silence. The ‘special grief’ of drug-death bereaved parents (Titlestad et al., 2020). He commented: It is coming up on the 3 years since we lost our daughter at age 21 in a DRD. I have found my wife listening to the song your paper refers to more times than I would like to count. I cried a…
How Do Drug-Death-Bereaved Parents Adjust to Life Without the Deceased? A Qualitative Study
Knowledge about how bereaved persons grieve can enhance quality in providing the support and potential services that they need. We aimed to identify ways in which drug-death-bereaved Norwegian parents go on with their lives and what inhibits or promotes adaptation during their grieving. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyze 14 semistructured in-depth interviews. We generated three themes: (I) processing grief emotions, (II) proactive co…
How do family members experience drug death bereavement? A systematic review of the literature
Prevalence and predictors of prolonged grief symptoms among those bereaved from a drug-related death in a convenience sample of Norwegian parents
Drug-death bereaved parents are at risk of high levels of prolonged grief (PG) symptoms. We included 93 Norwegian drug-death bereaved parents in a cross-sectional survey and aimed to explain PG symptoms. High levels of PG symptoms (M = 30.69) were identified. Low level of self-efficacy and withdrawal from others were the most strongly associated with high levels of grief symptoms ( p < .001). However, contrary to our expectations, social support,…
An unknown invisible intrusion. Impact of an adult family member’s problematic substance use on family life
Problematic substance use (PSU) has documented consequences for the person using substances and people close to that person. This meta-ethnography aims to provide insight into how families experience family life when adult family members PSU is present. The titles and abstracts of 24,423 retrieved studies were assessed against the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Fifteen qualitative primary articles, including 393 different family members experi…
Why Informal Support Fails for Siblings Bereaved by a Drug-Related Death
Drug-related deaths constitute a significant challenge that strongly impacts the lives of the bereaved and the risks of mental and social problems are well-documented. This paper is the first one to explore how bereaved siblings experience informal support after drug-related deaths. Reflexive thematic analysis is used to analyze ten semi-structured interviews with bereaved siblings. Three main themes were identified: (1) valued support elaborates…
Does ‘Time Heal all Wounds?’ The Prevalence and Predictors of Prolonged Grief Among Drug-Death Bereaved Family Members
Despite rising rates of drug-related deaths (DRDs), the consequences of DRDs for bereaved family members are scarcely investigated. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of prolonged grief (PG) symptoms in bereaved family members after DRDs, identify predictors of PG and examine whether symptom levels decrease with time. A cross-sectional design based on survey data from parents ( n = 93), siblings ( n = 78), children ( n = 24) and other fa…
The social health domain of people bereaved by a drug-related death and associations with professional help
People bereaved by traumatic deaths are vulnerable to long-lasting impairments in social health, including the quality of social relationships and the capacity to manage their social lives. In this Norwegian study involving 255 participants bereaved by a drug-related death, we aimed to investigate their social health and associations with professional help. The results of a cross-sectional survey showed that participants on average rated their so…
Examining grieving problem correlates of anticipation of the death vs. shock among overdose death and suicide bereaved adults
We conducted an online survey with individuals bereaved by drug deaths ( n = 115), suicide ( n = 185) and sudden natural deaths ( n = 103), including questions about anticipating the death vs. shock, other behaviors, established measures of mental health and grieving difficulties. Results showed more drug death bereaved anticipating their loved one's death while suicide bereaved were more shocked. Death shocked respondents showed greater PTSD, ot…
Drug Death-Bereaved Parents’ Perspectives on Family Interactions and Help Needs
Family relations are essential for the bereaved in terms of healing and adjusting to life, especially after experiencing a traumatic death. Although 500 000 people die in drug-related deaths each year, few works focus on family interactions and the help needs of those bereaved by such losses. In this qualitative study, we interviewed 14 parents who had lost their child through a drug-related death. Through a reflexive thematic analysis, we genera…
What do Professional Helpers Describe as Important Competence when Supporting Persons Bereaved by a Drug-Related Death
Bereaved persons following a drug-related death (DRD) experience significant stress, an increased risk of health-related problems, complicated grief reactions and a risk of higher mortality. Despite the support received from professional helpers being important, research has yet to examine their perspectives to understand and meet the bereaved's needs and increase the helpers' competence. Hence, this qualitative study explored professional helper…
Predictors of Stigma, Guilt, and Shame among Adults Bereaved by Fatal Overdose
With the spectacular rise of US overdose deaths, bereavement for these affected families has become a matter of increasing concern. Qualitative research has highlighted the role of stigmatization as well as guilt and shame among this population. However, the magnitude and pre-death predictors of stigmatization, guilt, and shame have yet to be assessed quantitatively. In the current study, we assess the magnitude of stigmatization, guilt, and sham…
The Significance of Social Context and Implications for Social Work
Social factors profoundly shape the bereavement process for individuals who have lost someone to a drug-related death. In this study, we integrate qualitative (n = 19), quantitative (n = 5), and mixed-methods (n = 2) results from a large research project on drug-related bereavement and utilise Bronfenbrenner and Morris’s bioecological model as an analytical framework. The results of the project demonstrate that bereavement following a drug-relate…
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