School of Health, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
Crisis. 2013;34(3):211-7. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000185.
While the research literature exploring suicide bereavement has expanded in recent years, this has been primarily quantitative and has focused more on the bereavement experience of parents and siblings. The bereavement experience of young people affected through the suicide death of a friend remains under-conceptualized and not well understood.
To develop an understanding of the experiences of young people bereaved by the suicide of a friend.
Ten young people participated in a pilot study with in-depth interviews to explore their suicide bereavement experiences. Narrative inquiry methodology was utilized to analyze the qualitative data.
The findings indicated multiple grief experiences caused by suicide. Four themes reported are meaning making, feeling guilt, risky coping behavior, and relating to friends following suicide loss.
Implications include the need for increased awareness that friends of young people who die by suicide may have significant health and well-being challenges associated with bereavement, and that friends in these circumstances may not readily present at services for assistance.
近年来，探索自杀丧亲之痛的研究文献有所增加，但这主要是定量的，并且更侧重于父母和兄弟姐妹的丧亲体验。年轻人因朋友自杀而受到影响的丧亲体验仍然没有得到充分的概念化和理解。
了解因朋友自杀而丧亲的年轻人的经历。
10 名年轻人参加了一项试点研究，进行深入访谈以探索他们的自杀丧亲经历。采用叙事探究方法对定性数据进行分析。
研究结果表明，自杀导致了多种悲伤体验。报告的四个主题是意义的构建、感到内疚、冒险应对行为以及在朋友自杀后与朋友的关系。
这意味着需要提高认识，即自杀身亡的年轻人的朋友可能会因丧亲而面临重大的健康和福祉挑战，并且在这种情况下，这些朋友可能不会主动寻求服务以获得帮助。
