Siden Research Team

MeSH: Self-Help Groups

Actual Solidarity through Virtual Support: A Pilot Descriptive Study of an Online Support Group for Bereaved Parents
Dec 4, 2024
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Siden Research Team
Background: Hospital-based support for bereaved parents is regarded as best practice. Little is known about parental perceptions or programmatic potential of online grief support. Objectives: To learn from bereaved parent participants’ experiences with an online support group to include perceptions of technology acceptance and group communication dynamics. Design: Descriptive study reporting on an eight-week online…
Belonging to a community of care: Mothers’ experiences of online peer support groups for parents having lost a child with congenital heart defects
Dec 2, 2024
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Siden Research Team
The aim was to study mothers’ experiences of online peer support groups after the death of a child. Participants (N = 8) were recruited through a newsletter for the Swedish association for families/children with heart defects, and two closed support groups on Facebook (900 and 100 members) and interviewed by telephone. Transcripts were analyzed with qualitative content…