Navigating Loss: An In-Depth Exploration of Grief and Spiritual Resilience in Hispanic and Latino Cultures.

Background: This was a phenomenological study that highlighted how culture, spirituality, and coping mechanisms influenced Hispanic and Latino community grief. Objective: A purposively selected sample of recordings of participant life review interviews from client records at the end-of-life comfort home identified themes on death beliefs, traditional grieving practices, cultural taboos, family roles, and religious faith, providing rich data on cultural and spiritual factors in grief. Methods: The themes that emerged from the analysis were related to death beliefs, traditional grieving practices, cultural taboos, family roles, and religious faith. The theoretical framework mixed deduction-induction approaches and was culture-sensitive to social work interventions. Findings: Findings supported a second line of evidence that diverse subgroups and the longitudinal grief experience may better inform understandings of, and improve cultural competency in, bereavement support. Conclusions: This study adds to the body of knowledge on bereavement among Hispanic and Latino communities and, potentially, to the establishment of culturally adapted interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]