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‘A silent epidemic of grief’: a survey of bereavement care provision in the UK and Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic by Pearce, Caroline (author);Honey, Jonathan R (author);Lovick, Roberta (author);Zapiain Creamer, Nicola (author);Henry, Claire (author);Langford, Andy (author);Stobert, Mark (author);Barclay, Stephen (author) is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Objectives To investigate the experiences and views of practitioners in the UK and Ireland concerning changes in bereavement care during the COVID-19 pandemic. ## Design Online survey using a snowball sampling approach. ## Setting Practitioners working in hospitals, hospices, care homes and community settings across the UK and Ireland. ## Participants Health and social care professionals involved in bereavement support. ## Interventions Brief online survey distributed widely across health and social care organisations. ## Results 805 respondents working in hospice, community, and hospital settings across the UK and Ireland completed the survey between 3 August and 4 September 2020. Changes to bereavement care practice were reported in: the use of telephone, video and other forms of remote support (90%); supporting people bereaved from non-COVID conditions (76%), from COVID-19 (65%) and people bereaved before the pandemic (61%); funeral arrangements (61%); identifying bereaved people who might need support (56%); managing complex forms of grief (48%) and access to specialist services (41%). Free-text responses demonstrated the complexities and scale of the impact on health and so

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Author

Pearce, Caroline (author);Honey, Jonathan R (author);Lovick, Roberta (author);Zapiain Creamer, Nicola (author);Henry, Claire (author);Langford, Andy (author);Stobert, Mark (author);Barclay, Stephen (author)

Publisher

BMJ

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)