ArticleArchives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine2010
Complicated grief and associated risk factors among parents following a child's death in the pediatric intensive care unit.
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- Complicated Grief, Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms Among Bereaved Parents following their Child's Death in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Follow-Up Study.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2022Article
- Therapeutic Alliance Between Bereaved Parents and Physicians in the PICU.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2021Observational
- Prolonged Grief Disorder in a Diverse College Student Sample.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Alcohol-related mortality and all-cause mortality following bereavement in two successive generations.PloS one · 2020Article
- The Grief of Parents After the Death of a Young Child.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2019Review
- Caring for Parents After the Death of a Child.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2018Review
- The relationship between under-five child death and maternal mental distress in Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia: a community based comparative cross-sectional study.BMC women's health · 2018Article
- Pediatric Palliative Care in Infants and Neonates.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Review
- Treatment intensity and symptom burden in hospitalized adolescent and young adult hematopoietic cell transplant recipients at the end of life.Bone marrow transplantation · 2018Article
- Parents' Acute Illnesses, Hospitalizations, and Medication Changes During the Difficult First Year After Infant or Child NICU/PICU Death.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the extent of complicated grief symptoms and associated risk factors among parents whose child died in a pediatric intensive care unit.
designCross-sectional survey conducted by mail and telephone.
settingSeven children's hospitals affiliated with the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network from January 1, 2006, to June 30, 2008.
participantsTwo hundred sixty-one parents from 872 families whose child died in a pediatric intensive care unit 6 months earlier. MAIN EXPOSURE: Assessment of potential risk factors, including demographic and clinical variables, and parent psychosocial characteristics, such as attachment style, caregiving style, grief avoidance, and social support.
main outcome measureParent report of complicated grief symptoms using the Inventory of Complicated Grief. Total scale range is from 0 to 76; scores of 30 or higher suggest complicated grief.
resultsMean (SD) Inventory of Complicated Grief scores among parents were 33.7 (14.1). Fifty-nine percent of parents (95% confidence interval, 53%-65%) had scores of 30 or higher. Variables independently associated with higher symptom scores in multivariable analysis included being the biological mother or female guardian, trauma as the cause of death, greater attachment-related anxiety and attachment-related avoidance, and greater grief avoidance.
conclusionsParents who responded to our survey experienced a high level of complicated grief symptoms 6 months after their child's death in the pediatric intensive care unit. However, our estimate of the extent of complicated grief symptoms may be biased because of a high number of nonresponders. Better understanding of complicated grief and its risk factors among parents will allow those most vulnerable to receive professional bereavement support.
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