Understanding end-of-life doula care provision: reporting on the design of a bereavement survey to evaluate doula support.

Background: Delivery of consistent patient-centred care at end-of-life care continues to challenge healthcare providers and research continues to suggest that peoples' needs are not being reliably met. Consequently, healthcare services are looking to innovate how support is provided, such as commissioning doulas to support dying people and those close to them.

Objective: Within the United Kingdom, there is little existing research about peoples' experience of receiving end-of-life doula support.

Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About End-of-Life Doulas.

Palliative care has made great strides in improving the lives of people living with serious illness, with an empirical premise for increasing quality, and sometimes quantity of life. Yet in some cases, there exist gaps that impede the ability of palliative care clinicians to truly advocate, procure, and provide the comprehensive services needed for patients, family caregivers, and communities, particularly in the contexts of caring for marginalized populations and working in under-resourced practice settings. The end-of-life doula role has emerged over the last decade and the availability of trained doulas in the community has burgeoned.

End-of-life doulas: international reflections on a transnational movement.

This review article summarizes the findings from the first virtual International End-of-Life Doula Symposium, held over 3 days on 25-27 April 2022. More than 40 people attended from seven countries, predominantly from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, and they were primarily experienced practitioners. In this article, we focus on participants' topics of conversations and experiences that were relevant across international boundaries, organized through the symposium themes of developments, disruptions, dilemmas and directions.

How healthcare providers' own death anxiety influences their communication with patients in end-of-life care: A thematic analysis.

Healthcare providers' own death anxiety can influence end-of-life communication. We interviewed nine palliative care health providers about their experiences of providing end-of-life care. Participants also completed the Revised Death Anxiety Scale.