Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted thousands of individuals’ experience of caregiving and grief. This qualitative study aimed to gain in-dept understanding of family caregivers’ lived experiences of caregiving and bereavement in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, Canada. The s...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Alexandra Guité-Verret, Melanie Vachon, Deborah Ummel, Emilie Lessard, Camille Francoeur-Carron
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Materias:	grief bereavement mourning metaphor covid-19 pandemic family caregivers Medicine (General) R5-920
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/df75beca61ec4515a51b1a0e0507f6e9
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:df75beca61ec4515a51b1a0e0507f6e9
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:df75beca61ec4515a51b1a0e0507f6e92021-11-11T14:23:42ZExpressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic1748-26231748-263110.1080/17482631.2021.1996872https://doaj.org/article/df75beca61ec4515a51b1a0e0507f6e92021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2021.1996872https://doaj.org/toc/1748-2623https://doaj.org/toc/1748-2631Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted thousands of individuals’ experience of caregiving and grief. This qualitative study aimed to gain in-dept understanding of family caregivers’ lived experiences of caregiving and bereavement in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, Canada. The study also aimed at providing new insight about caregiving and bereavement by analysing the metaphors family caregivers use to report their experiences. Methods: The design of this study was guided by an interpretative phenomenological approach. In-depth interviews were conducted with twenty bereaved family caregivers who had lost a loved one during the first waves of the pandemic. Results: Results indicate that bereaved family caregivers lived and understood their experience in terms of metaphoric cut-offs, obstructions and shockwaves. These three metaphors represented the grief process and the bereaved’s quest for social connection, narrative coherence and recognition. Conclusion: By identifying the meaning of the bereaved’s metaphors and the quest they reveal, our study underlines the singularity of pandemic grief and points to the value and meaning of caregiving with regard to the grieving process.Alexandra Guité-VerretMelanie VachonDeborah UmmelEmilie LessardCamille Francoeur-CarronTaylor & Francis Grouparticlegriefbereavementmourningmetaphorcovid-19 pandemicfamily caregiversMedicine (General)R5-920ENInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, Vol 16, Iss 1 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	grief bereavement mourning metaphor covid-19 pandemic family caregivers Medicine (General) R5-920
spellingShingle	grief bereavement mourning metaphor covid-19 pandemic family caregivers Medicine (General) R5-920 Alexandra Guité-Verret Melanie Vachon Deborah Ummel Emilie Lessard Camille Francoeur-Carron Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic
description	Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted thousands of individuals’ experience of caregiving and grief. This qualitative study aimed to gain in-dept understanding of family caregivers’ lived experiences of caregiving and bereavement in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, Canada. The study also aimed at providing new insight about caregiving and bereavement by analysing the metaphors family caregivers use to report their experiences. Methods: The design of this study was guided by an interpretative phenomenological approach. In-depth interviews were conducted with twenty bereaved family caregivers who had lost a loved one during the first waves of the pandemic. Results: Results indicate that bereaved family caregivers lived and understood their experience in terms of metaphoric cut-offs, obstructions and shockwaves. These three metaphors represented the grief process and the bereaved’s quest for social connection, narrative coherence and recognition. Conclusion: By identifying the meaning of the bereaved’s metaphors and the quest they reveal, our study underlines the singularity of pandemic grief and points to the value and meaning of caregiving with regard to the grieving process.
format	article
author	Alexandra Guité-Verret Melanie Vachon Deborah Ummel Emilie Lessard Camille Francoeur-Carron
author_facet	Alexandra Guité-Verret Melanie Vachon Deborah Ummel Emilie Lessard Camille Francoeur-Carron
author_sort	Alexandra Guité-Verret
title	Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic
title_short	Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic
title_full	Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic
title_fullStr	Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed	Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic
title_sort	expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the covid-19 pandemic
publisher	Taylor & Francis Group
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/df75beca61ec4515a51b1a0e0507f6e9
work_keys_str_mv	AT alexandraguiteverret expressinggriefthroughmetaphorsfamilycaregiversexperienceofcareandgriefduringthecovid19pandemic AT melanievachon expressinggriefthroughmetaphorsfamilycaregiversexperienceofcareandgriefduringthecovid19pandemic AT deborahummel expressinggriefthroughmetaphorsfamilycaregiversexperienceofcareandgriefduringthecovid19pandemic AT emilielessard expressinggriefthroughmetaphorsfamilycaregiversexperienceofcareandgriefduringthecovid19pandemic AT camillefrancoeurcarron expressinggriefthroughmetaphorsfamilycaregiversexperienceofcareandgriefduringthecovid19pandemic
_version_	1718438994407063552

Expressing grief through metaphors: family caregivers’ experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic

Ejemplares similares