Anna Katharina Vokinger
Research Assistant (Prof. Dr. Gisela Michel)
T +41 41 229 59 69 • Alpenquai 4, Room 6 • anna.vokinger@unilu.ch
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Anna Katharina Vokinger holds a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology from the University of Bern. For her master’s thesis, she analysed humanitarian actions in a Buddhist orphanage in Hanoi, Vietnam. During her master’s studies, she completed a course in palliative care by the Swiss Red Cross and has been volunteering in palliative companionship with the Red Cross Baselland since 2020. In January 2022, she started working part-time as a research assistant at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine at the University of Lucerne. In October 2022, she started her PhD at the same faculty in the project: “Bereavement care for parents of childhood cancer patients”. Her research focuses on the needs and wishes of bereaved parents in the context of paediatric palliative care in oncology.
Publications
- Pedraza, E. C., Vokinger, A. K., Cleves, D., Baker, J. N., Garcia-Quintero, X., & McNeil, M. J. (2024). Grief and Bereavement Support for Parents in Low- or Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 67 (5), 453–471. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11355760
- De Clercq, E., Vokinger, A. K., Pedraza, E. C., von Bueren, A. O., Tinner, E. M., & Michel, G. (2024). Cooling facilities in paediatric palliative care: a ritual form of mourning? A scoping literature review. Mortality. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13303662
- Vokinger, A. K., Pedraza, E. C., & Michel, G. (2024). Kinderkrebs: Trauernde Eltern. cogito – Das Wissensmagazin der Universität Luzern, 13, 18–19.
- Vokinger, A. K., Pedraza, E. C., De Clercq, E., Tinner, E. M., Bergsträsser, E., & Michel, G. (2023). Leben mit Verlust: Trauerbegleitung nach dem Tod eines Kindes an Krebs - Angebotene Trauerbegleitung, Coping-Strategien und Bedürfnisse von Eltern. palliative.ch, (2), 12–18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10513907
- Pedraza, E. C., Raguindin, P. F., Hendriks, M. J., Vokinger, A. K., De Clercq, E., Rüesch, K., … Michel, G. (2023). Palliative care services in paediatric oncology centres across Europe: A cross-sectional survey. EJC Paediatric Oncology, 2, 100125 ff. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10401670
- Holmer, P., Bolliger, C., Vokinger, A. K., Dyntar, D., & Michel, G. (2023). Screening for mental health problems in childhood cancer survivorship: a systematic review. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology Research and Practice, 3. Retrieved from https://journals.lww.com/jporp/Fulltext/2023/07000/Screening_for_mental_health_problems_in_childhood.2.aspx
Achievements
- Experienced and wished for support of bereaved parents following the death of their child to cancer. Poster, SPOG SSPHO Scientific Meeting, Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group (SPOG); Swiss Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (SSPHO), Inselspital, Bern, 2024
- To live with loss: bereavement care for parents who lost a child to cancer. Lecture, Nationaler Palliative Care Kongress, palliative.ch, Biel, 2023
- Beyond the illness: exploring the multifaceted needs of bereaved parents following the death of their child to cancer. Lecture, IPOS World Congress, IPOS, Milano, 2023
- Screening for mental health problems in childhood cancer survivorship: A systematic review. Lecture, Research Symposium Health Lucerne, Universität Luzern, Luzern, 2023
- Paediatric Palliative Oncology Across Europe: A Cross-Sectional Survey. Lecture, Research Symposium Health Lucerne, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2023
- Screening for mental health problems in childhood cancer survivorship: A systematic review. Poster, 54th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), International Society of Paediatric Cancer (SIOP), Barcelona, 2022
