Since we began our research into Covid-19 there has been much academic research into grief during the pandemic beyond our project, as well as copious popular articles exploring these issues. Listed below are some useful publications and resources.
External Academic Articles
- Adiukwu, F., Kamalzadeh, L., Pinto da Costa, M. et al. (2022) The grief experience during the COVID-19 pandemic across different cultures. Ann Gen Psychiatry, 21, 18.
- Borghi, L. & Menichetti, J. (2021), 'Strategies to Cope With the COVID-Related Deaths Among Family Members', Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 1–4.
- Delor, J.P.M., Borghi, L., Cao di San Marco, E., Fossati, I. and Vegni, E. (2021), 'Phone follow up to families of COVID-19 patients who died at the hospital: families’ grief reactions and clinical psychologists’ roles', International Journal of Psychology, 56, 498–511.
- Firouzkouhi, M., Alimohammadi, N., Abdollahimohammad, A., Bagheri, G. and Farzi, J. (2021), 'Bereaved Families Views on the Death of Loved Ones Due to COVID 19: An Integrative Review', Omega-Journal of Death and Dying, 1–16.
- Gallagher, A. (2021), 'Reflections on a COVID death: Naming a family’s pain and reparation', Nursing Ethics, 28 587–589.
- Kumar, R. M. (2021) 'The Many Faces of Grief: A Systematic Literature Review of Grief During the COVID-19 Pandemic', Illness, Crisis & Loss, 1–20.
- McDuffie, D.L., Kouchi, K., Dorman, H., Bownes, E., Condon, S.E. and Crowther, M.R. (2021), 'Grief, COVID-19, and the South: Considerations and Recommendations', Omega-Journal of Death and Dying, 1–14.
- McLaughlin, D. (2021), 'Micro-Loss; Expanding Our Vocabulary to Describe Grief during the Time of Covid', Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, 17, 124–126.
- Menzies, R., Neimeyer, R., & Menzies, R. (2020). 'Death Anxiety, Loss, and Grief in the Time of COVID-19.' Behaviour Change, 37(3), 111–115.
- Pearce, C., Honey, J. R., Lovick, R., et al. (2021). ‘A silent epidemic of grief’: a survey of bereavement care provision in the UK and Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ Open.
- Selman, L. (2021), 'Covid grief has cracked us open: how clinicians respond could reshape attitudes to bereavement', BMJ, 374, 1–4.
- Seyede Salehe, M., Shahbazi, N., Taban, M., Alimohammadi, A. and Shati, M. (2021). Mourning During Corona: A Phenomenological Study of Grief Experience Among Close Relatives During COVID-19 Pandemics. Omega-Journal of Death and Dying. 1–22.
- Singer, J., Spiegel, J. A., & Papa, A. (2020). 'Preloss grief in family members of COVID-19 patients: Recommendations for clinicians and researchers.' Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(1), 90–93.
- Verdery, A. M., Smith-Greenaway, E., Margolis, R., & Daw, J. (2020). Tracking the reach of COVID-19 kin loss with a bereavement multiplier applied to the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(30), 17695-17701.
- Wallace, C. L.; Wladkowski, S. P.; Gibson, A. & White, P. (2020). Grief During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for Palliative Care Providers. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.
- West, K., Rumble, H., Shaw, R., Cameron, A. and Roleston, C. (2021), 'Diarised Reflections on COVID-19 and Bereavement: Disruptions and Affordances', Illness, Crisis & Loss, 1–17.
- Yardley, S., & Rolph, M. (2020). Death and dying during the pandemic. BMJ. 369 :m1472
Pathological grief and mental health
- Bertuccio, R. F. & Runion, M.C. (2020), Considering Grief in Mental Health Outcomes of COVID-19, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12, 87–89.
- Diolaiuti, F., Marazziti, D., Beatino, M. F., Mucci, F., & Pozza, A. (2021). Impact and consequences of COVID-19 pandemic on complicated grief and persistent complex bereavement disorder. Psychiatry Research, 300, 113916.
- Eisma, M. C., Tamminga, A., Smid, G. E., & Boelen, P. A. (2021). Acute grief after deaths due to COVID-19, natural causes and unnatural causes: An empirical comparison. Journal of affective disorders, 278, 54-56.
- Eisma, M. C., Boelen, P. A., & Lenferink, L. (2020). Prolonged grief disorder following the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Psychiatry research, 288, 113031.
- Gesi, C., Carmassi, C., Cerveri, G., Carpita, B., Cremone, I. M., & Dell’Osso, L. (2020). Complicated grief: What to expect after the coronavirus pandemic. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 489.
- Jordan, T. R., Wotring, A. J., McAfee, C. A., Polavarapu, M., Cegelka, D., Wagner-Greene, V. R., & Hamdan, Z. (2022). The COVID-19 pandemic has changed dying and grief: Will there be a surge of complicated grief?. Death studies, 46(1), 84-90.
- Lee, S. A., & Neimeyer, R. A. (2022). Pandemic Grief Scale: A screening tool for dysfunctional grief due to a COVID-19 loss. Death Studies, 46(1), 14–24.
- Rui M. Joaquima, Pintoa, A.L.C.B., Guatimosimd, R.F., de Paulaa, J.J., Souza Costaa, D., Paim Diaze, A., da Silvaf, A.n.G., Pinheiroj, M.I.C., Serpai, A.L.O., Mirandac, D.M. and Malloy-Diniza, L.F. (2021), 'Bereavement and psychological distress during COVID-19 pandemics: The impact of death experience on mental health', Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 2.
- Sherman A. Lee & Robert A. Neimeyer (2020). Pandemic Grief Scale: A screening tool for dysfunctional grief due to a COVID-19 loss, Death Studies.
Disenfranchised grief
- lbuquerque S., Teixeira, A. M., & Rocha, J. C., (2021). 'COVID-19 and Disenfranchised Grief.' Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12(638874), 1-4.
- Albuquerque, S., Teixeira, A. M., & Rocha, J. C. (2021). COVID-19 and disenfranchised grief. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 638874.
Resilience
- Walsh, F. (2020), 'Loss and Resilience in the Time of COVID-19: Meaning Making, Hope, and Transcendence', Family Process, 59, 898–911.
- Zhai, Y., & Du, X. (2020). Loss and grief amidst COVID-19: A path to adaptation and resilience. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 87, 80–81.
Social restrictions
- Feder, S., Smith, D., Griffin, H., Shreve, S.T., Kinder, D., Kutney-Lee, A. and Ersek, M. (2020), '“Why Couldn’t I Go in To See Him?” Bereaved Families’ Perceptions of End-of-Life Communication During COVID-19', The American Geriatrics Society, 69, 587–592.
- Hernández-Fernández, C. and Meneses-Falcón, C. (2021), 'I can't believe they are dead. Death and mourning in the absence of goodbyes during the COVID-19 pandemic', Health and Social Care, 1–13.
- Mortazavi, S. S., Assari, S., Alimohamadi, A., Rafiee, M., & Shati, M. (2020). 'Fear, Loss, Social Isolation, and Incomplete Grief Due to COVID-19: A Recipe for a Psychiatric Pandemic.' Basic and clinical neuroscience, 11(2), 225–232.
- Schwartz, S. (2021), 'COVID-19, precarity and loneliness', Journal of Analytical Psychology, 66, 517–533.
Impact on different groups
- Goveas, J. S., & Shear, M. K. (2020). Grief and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Older Adults. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 28(10), 1119–1125.
- Ishikawa, R. Z. (2020). 'I may never see the ocean again: Loss and grief among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.' Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(1), 85–86.
- Katz, N.T., McInerney, M., Ravindran, G. and Gold, M. (2021), 'Silent suffering of the dying and their families: impact of COVID-19', Internal Medicine Journal, 51, 433–435.
- Rabow, M. W., Huang, C.-H. S., White-Hammond, G. E. and Tucker, R. O. (2021). 'Witnesses and Victims Both: Healthcare Workers and Grief in the Time of COVID-19.' Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 62(3), 647–656.
- Statz, T., Kobayashi, L., & Finlay, J. (2022). ‘Losing the illusion of control and predictability of life’: Experiences of grief and loss among ageing US adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ageing and Society, 1–24.
- Weinstock L., Dunda D., Harrington H. and Nelson H. (2021) 'It’s Complicated—Adolescent Grief in the Time of Covid-19.' Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 638940.
Popular Media
Bereavement during the pandemic
- Dogs, grief and blurred memories: Pandemic life, three years in (16/03/23, Washington post)
- COVID Has Put the World at Risk of Prolonged Grief Disorder (19/05/21, Scientific American)
- I need to grieve for my mum – but the pandemic has taken that away (14/03/21, Telegraph)
- Coronavirus: Coping with grief during a lockdown (27/03/20, BBC)
- Dear Therapist Writes to Herself in Her Grief (30/03/20, The Atlantic)
- The pandemic will pass. Our grief will endure (06/04/20, Washington Post)
- Processing Grief During a Pandemic, When Nothing Is Normal (10/04/20, Rolling Stone)
- How coronavirus has transformed the grieving process (17/04/20, The Conversation)
- Coronavirus grief: 'Lockdown makes a bizarre situation ten times worse' (02/07/20, BBC)
Non-bereavement losses
- ‘Complex and quite ambiguous loss’: what Covid has done to our mental health (04/09/21, The Guardian)
- That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief (23/03/20, Harvard Business Review)
- Grieving the Losses of Coronavirus (23/03/20, New York Times)
- Trouble Focusing? Not Sleeping? You May Be Grieving (09/04/20, New York Times)
- We’re Not Ready for This Kind of Grief (13/04/20, The Atlantic)
Collective and societal grief
- 'Unresolved grief': coronavirus presents eerie parallels for Aids advocates (22/03/20, The Guardian)
- Coronavirus shows the UK must reimagine how it grieves (08/04/20, New Statesman)
- How to grieve for 10,000 people (13/04/20, The Guardian)
- Coronavirus: Grieving together with a yellow heart (16/05/20, BBC)
Changes to mourning rituals
- Coronavirus: Britons saying final goodbyes to dying relatives by videolink (24/03/20, The Guardian)
- Coronavirus: How Covid-19 is denying dignity to the dead in Italy (25/03/20, BBC)
- Coronavirus: How to grieve a loved one when you can't say goodbye (04/04/20, BBC)
- Tomb Sweeping Festival: China pays 'virtual' respects to ancestors (04/04/20, BBC)
- 'It’s grief upon grief': the harsh reality of funerals in lockdown (14/04/20, The Guardian)
- The lonely reality of grieving online during social isolation (13/04/20, MIT Technology Review)
- Notes From a Videochat Memorial (23/04/20, The Atlantic)
- Mourning at a distance (03/05/20, The Guardian)
- Reinventing Grief in an Era of Enforced Isolation (04/05/20, The New Yorker)
- 'My rabbi's tools now include a phone': UK Jewish burials changed by Covid-19 (14/05/30, The Guardian)