You’re Teaching Me Something About Living
Australian Palliative Care Volunteers’ Evolving Experiences of Grief and Loss
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13628277 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Florence Chiew (0000-0003-0562-8342, School of Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, The Cairnmillar Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, corresponding author), Zoe Krupka (0000-0001-6100-2083, School of Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, The Cairnmillar Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1823-1843 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00302228231164863 |
| PMID | 36920273 |
| OpenAlex | W4324309272 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 58 |
Palliative care volunteers play a crucial role in supporting people who are terminally ill. Previous studies have indicated that a personal experience of grief and bereavement is a motivating factor for wanting to be a palliative care volunteer. Using reflexive thematic analysis as a methodological approach, the aim of this qualitative study was to explore the lived experience of grief and bereavement in a group of 11 Australian volunteers in adult palliative care settings. Three themes were identified from the dataset: witnessing and finding community; approaching death and dying with curiosity and openness; living well through death awareness. Importantly, death awareness was felt by volunteers to be an essential part of sense making around their past grief and a source of guidance for appreciating life. The findings of this study contribute to a deeper understanding of volunteering motivations, end-of-life care, and the changing nature of grief as a lived experience
Curiosity · Disenfranchised grief · End-of-life care · Grief · Lived experience · Openness to experience · Palliative care · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Reflexivity · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
Meaning reconstruction & the experience of loss.
Loss, Grief, and the Search for Significance
Sense and significance
Post‐traumatic growth and life threatening physical illness
Research Paper Post-traumatic growth following bereavement
Compassionate communities
Characterising and justifying sample size sufficiency in interview-based studies
Target Article
A worked example of Braun and Clarke’s approach to reflexive thematic analysis
The Changing Face of Volunteering in Hospice and Palliative Care
Thematic Analysis
Health-promoting palliative care
Meaning Reconstruction in Bereavement
A Social Constructionist Account of Grief
Positive Aspects of Critical Life Problems
The Existential Dimension of Palliative Care
From Grieving to Giving
Supporting thinking on sample sizes for thematic analyses
Formal Volunteering as a Protective Factor for Older Adults' Psychological Well-Being
Recovering From Spousal Bereavement in Later Life
Volunteering and Wellbeing Among Ageing Adults
Volunteering, subjective well-being and public policy
Qualitative inquiry and research design
From “Silent Birth” to Voices Heard
Pathways Through Grief to Hospice Volunteering
Volunteer Work and Well-Being
Now I see it, now I don't
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |