فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Introduction: Birth can cause and post‑traumatic stresses in many women even when theoccasion of birth results in alive baby. Fetal death can challenge her understanding of justiceand God’s love toward his creatures. Religious beliefs have a considerable effect on decreasingindividuals’ tendency toward bereavement; thus, it is expected to have a relationship with sorrowand mental distress ensuing fetal death. The present research has been conducted to review theexisting literature on religion and fetal death and then study Iranian women and their families’response to such a tragedy. Materials and Methods: This is a unsystematic (narrative) review.Research was conducted to study the role of mothers’ religious belief in their encounter withpregnancy loss in cases belonging to a 23‑year period from 1990 to 2013. PubMed and Oviddatabases and Iranian religious resources such as Tebyan were utilized for these studies. Ofcourse, several articles were also derived by means of manual search. Results: Nine out of31 papers had the searched keywords in common in the preliminary search. A review of theexisting papers indicated that only 4 out of 22 papers dealt exactly with the role of religion onreaction of parents to fetal death. The four papers belonged to the years 2008, 2010, 2011, and2012 indicating the new approach to religion in pregnancy loss cases. Conclusion: Religionhas a significant effect on parents’ acceptance of such mishaps and it may have a considerableeffect on their recovery from such tragic events.