Table 2.
Post-Intervention Survey Responses
Item | Response | n (%) |
---|---|---|
How much has/did this treatment focus(ed) on providing support to you? | Quite a bit | 2 (33%) |
Very much | 4 (67%) | |
How much has/did this treatment focus(ed) on talking about your feelings about your loss? | Somewhat | 1 (17%) |
Quite a bit | 2 (33%) | |
Very much | 3 (50%) | |
How much has/did this treatment focus(ed) on finding a sense of meaning and purpose in life? | Quite a bit | 2 (33%) |
Very much | 4 (67%) | |
How would you rate the length of this treatment (please check only one)? |
Just right | 6 (100%) |
What has/did this treatment help(ed) you with the most? | 1. “To greater appreciate the value in my son’s life. To better understand my value in making his life better-both before + during his illness. To better understand my son’s value in affecting my life. To learn ways to keep my son close to me and to enjoy the feeling. To recognize the strength he gave to me in life and to be able to continue to benefit from that strength. To better recognize the things most important to me, how they’ve changed, and how they’ve always been there, a natural continuity that makes sense to go on in the future. To feel better about myself for what I have done, what I am doing now, and for what I can expect in the future.” | |
2. “It helped me find more lighthouses in my life to help me get through the rough times.” | ||
3. “It showed me [a] different way to look on the problem. Teached me how to talk about it.” | ||
4. “Vocalizing the immense personal pain that I hold inside.” | ||
5. “Reconnecting with my son, (child’s name) who died. I realized that I was avoiding thinking of him because it was too painful. Also, reconnecting with my surviving son, (other child’s name)... I feel that our relationship is moving in a positive direction. Although I will never have the meaning back that I had when (child’s name) was alive, I realize that I am on my way to working through my grief and developing new meaning. I have a bit more energy than I did at the beginning of the treatment. Many of the sessions were difficult, yet I know that is when I grow the most.” | ||
6. “It got me to write the letter to the doctors that I needed to get done to liberate myself to do other things.” | ||
What has/did this treatment help(ed) you with the least? | 1. “No least. Check that…winning the lottery…no help at all! :)” | |
2. “N/A” | ||
3. “I still don’t know how to deal with [the] lost.” | ||
4. “The emphasis on Viktor Frankl, I personally didn’t need for perspective.” | ||
5. [No response] | ||
6. [No response] |
Note. Six participants provided post-intervention responses. Each number listed next to the two openended question responses corresponds to a single participant (e.g., Participant 1, 2, 3, etc.).