“We noticed a lot of the men that were a part of the relationships didn’t talk about miscarriage,” Horstman said. “They didn’t feel they had the space to talk about it, and didn’t feel like they could cope with miscarriage because it is such a women’s space.”
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The study, “Men’s use of metaphors to make sense of their spouse’s miscarriage: Expanding the communicated sense-making model,” was published in Health Communication. A third author on the study is Chad McBride. Holman and McBride are in the department of communication studies at Creighton University. Funding was provided by Creighton University’s Dr. George F. Haddix President’s Faculty Research Fund. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funding agencies.
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This piece originally appeared at munews.missouri.edu, published with permission.
