Providing emotional care for early pregnancy loss: Development and evaluation of a new training module for healthcare providers.

Background: Miscarriage is a common life event that frequently causes significant grief and distress. The emotional impact of miscarriage has been shown to be strongly influenced by patients' and partners' experiences interacting with healthcare providers during the miscarriage diagnosis and treatment: positive experiences are associated with reduced perinatal grief, whereas negative interactions can aggravate the traumatic impact of the loss. Unfortunately, healthcare providers frequently report feeling ill-equipped and unprepared to provide adequate emotional care for miscarriage.

What good emotional care for miscarriage looks like: A mixed-methods investigation in an Australian private hospital setting.

Background: Miscarriage is a common medical occurrence which can be associated with significant psychological distress. Patients and partners are frequently disappointed by aspects of their care, especially with regard to emotional support. Although most published studies investigated the experiences of patients and partners in emergency departments (EDs) of public hospitals, miscarriage is also frequently diagnosed in non-emergency settings, such as during sonography or antenatal appointments, and approximately 25% of Australian women receive maternity care in private hospitals.

Toward Optimal Emotional Care During the Experience of Miscarriage: An Integrative Review of the Perspectives of Women, Partners, and Health Care Providers.

Introduction: Miscarriage is frequently associated with significant emotional impact, causing psychological distress, trauma, and grief. Unfortunately, women and partners frequently report dissatisfaction with care around miscarriage, and health care providers report feeling ill-prepared and underequipped to provide emotional support. This integrative review synthesizes the individual perspectives of the woman experiencing the miscarriage, the partner, and the different health care provider roles involved in the care to better understand what future research is necessary to improve the experiences of bereaved parents and their health care providers.

Motion extrapolation in the flash-lag effect depends on perceived, rather than physical speed.

In the flash-lag effect (FLE), a flash in spatiotemporal alignment with a moving object is misperceived as lagging behind the moving object. One proposed explanation for this illusion is based on predictive motion extrapolation of trajectories. In this interpretation, the diverging effects of velocity on the perceived position of the moving object suggest that FLE might be based on the neural representation of perceived, rather than physical, velocity.

The rubber hand illusion in children: What are we measuring?

The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is a much-studied bodily illusion that has been used in a wide number of populations to investigate the plasticity of the mental body representation. In adult participants, the wide adoption of the illusion has led to a proliferation of experimental variations of the illusion, and with that, considerable apparent inconsistencies in both empirical results and conceptual interpretations. In turn, this makes it challenging to integrate empirical findings and to identify what those findings together can tell us about the representation of the body in the brain.