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Support programme for bereaved relative: a retrospective observational study
  1. Adèle Jarry1,
  2. Aurélie Lepeintre1,
  3. Diane Constant-David1,
  4. Clementine Paul1,
  5. Chloe Chauvin1,
  6. Julien Nizard1,2 and
  7. Adrien Evin1
  1. 1Service Douleur, Soins Palliatifs et de Support, Médecine Intégrative, Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, Nantes, F-44000, France
  2. 2UMRS INSERM-Nantes Université-Oniris 1229 RMeS, Regenerative Medicine and Skeleton, Nantes université, CHU Nantes, Nantes, F-44000, France
  1. Correspondence to Dr Adèle Jarry; adele.jarry{at}chu-nantes.fr

https://doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2024-005234

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    Introduction

    Grief and its complications

    Grief encompasses emotional, cognitive and behavioural reactions to the loss of someone close. While most bereaved persons experience a gradually diminishing painful grieving process and finally adapt to the loss of the deceased person, some others face complications of grief.

    Grief can lead to identified psychiatric disorders, somatic pathologies and increased mortality.1 2 The bereaved person may also experience a ‘persistent complex bereavement’. Its prevalence varies in studies from 2.4% to 24.6%3 and studies on risk factors are not all consistent and many have methodological limitations.

    The analysis of the literature shows that there is a great variability of interventions with the bereaved4 and the impact of these interventions is divergent.

    Creation of the bereavement support program

    At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented health measures were taken such as confinement at home or restrictions on visits to care facilities. These measures have upset the support to relatives of patients nearing their end of life and their own grieving process.5 Fearing that grieving complications would increase, the mobile palliative care team of a French university hospital created the support programme for bereaved relatives (bereaved relatives support programme (BRSP)) on 2020. This programme makes sure that one relative of each person who has died at the hospital will be called in order to offer a space to speak out as well as …

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors AJ, AE and AL were responsible for study design, data analysis and manuscript preparation. DC-D, CP, CC and JN assisted in manuscript preparation. AJ acts as the guarantor and accepts full responsibility for the work and the conduct of the study, had access to the data and controlled the decision to publish.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.