Evaluation of bereavement intervention.

We report the first phase in a research program aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of bereavement counselling as a health promotion strategy. The Lindemann Model of grief management is used as an effectiveness measure of bereavement counselling via the Heimler Scale of Social Functioning. Thirty key persons of cancer patients cared for on a palliative care unit were involved in a longitudinal randomized experiment. Analysis of the data...