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The impact of perinatal loss in maternity units: A psycholinguistic analysis of health professionals’ reactions

Published:2017-08-30 Issue:5 Volume:25 Page:640-651
ISSN:1359-1053
Container-title:Journal of Health Psychology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Health Psychol

Author:

Gandino Gabriella¹,Di Fini Giulia¹,Bernaudo Antonella¹,Paltrinieri Marcello¹,Castiglioni Marco²,Veglia Fabio¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy

2. Riccardo Massa Department of Human Sciences and Education, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Abstract

Perinatal loss has a strong emotional impact on health professionals working in maternity units. We aimed to study the impact of this experience on health professionals’ language. We analyzed the answers of 162 health professionals (physicians and non-medical staff) who described their reactions to perinatal loss. A linguistic analysis was performed using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software. Associations between language and burnout were studied. Words typical of a psychological shock reaction were used more by non-medical staff than by physicians. Participants who used pronouns, optimistic words, future tense verbs, and cognitive words registered lower levels of burnout. Clinical implications of the results are discussed.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Applied Psychology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1359105317727841

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