Pet Grief: Tools to Assess Owners' Bereavement and Veterinary Communication Skills.

摘要: In Italy, there are still very few studies on the psychological impact of losing a pet. The need to fill this gap springs from fact that pet loss counseling services increasingly being activated. aim study is Italian adaptation instruments for veterinary services. survey adapted were: Pet Bereavement Questionnaire (PBQ) describe individual experience pet-grief; Regret Bereaved Family Members (RBFM) assess family regret; Shared Decision-Making (SDM-Q-9) decision making in end life; Consultation and Relational Empathy Measure (CARE) veterinarian relational empathy during clinical encounters. All obtained good internal reliability, results confirmative factor analysis all versions were accordance with original ones. correlational among variables evidenced following aspects: more owner feels involved by process perceived as empathetic; when empathic shared owners' bereavement distress regrets reduced; negative dimensions (grief, guilt, anger, intrusive thoughts decisional regrets) strictly linked each other, therefore if one dimension increases or decreases others do too. path suggests developing relationship-centered care practice may be beneficial owners facing end-of-life issues death their companion animals since it showed shared-decision strategies communication reduce complicate grief. Interestingly, adopting decision-making contribute empathic. These aspects taken into consideration end-of -life training medicine.