ArticleBMJ open2013
Psychological morbidity among suicide-bereaved and non-bereaved parents: a nationwide population survey.
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- Impacts of suicide bereavement on men: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Suicidal Ideation, Depression, and Insomnia in Parent Survivors of Suicide: Based on Korean Psychological Autopsy of Adolescent Suicides.Journal of Korean medical science · 2023Article
- Suicide bereavement in the UK: Descriptive findings from a national survey.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2022Article
- Employment status and bereavement after parental suicide: a population representative cohort study.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Risks of suicide among family members of suicide victims: A nationwide sample of South Korea.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Depression among Parents Two to Six Years Following the Loss of a Child by Suicide: A Novel Prediction Model.PloS one · 2016Article
- Functional impairment due to bereavement after the death of adolescent or young adult offspring in a national population study of 1,051,515 parents.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2015Article
- Viewing the body after bereavement due to suicide: a population-based survey in Sweden.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine how psychological premorbidity affects the risk of depression in parents who lost a child through suicide.
designPopulation-based survey.
settingSweden, between 2009 and 2010.
participantsAll parents who lost a child, age 15-30, through suicide between 2004 and 2007 according to National population registries. Non-bereaved parents matched for age, sex, living area, marital status, number of children. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: born outside a Nordic country, not Swedish speaking, contact details missing. Participants: 666 of 915 (73%) suicide-bereaved and 377 of 508 (74%) non-bereaved parents.
main outcome measuresDepression measured by the nine-item depression scale of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and study-specific questions to assess psychological premorbidity and experience of the child's presuicidal morbidity.
resultsIn all, 94 (14%) suicide-bereaved and 51 (14%) non-bereaved parents (relative risk 1.0; 95% CI 0.8 to 1.4) had received their first treatment for psychological problems or had been given a psychiatric diagnosis more than 10 years earlier. The prevalence of moderate-to-severe depression was 115 (18%) in suicide-bereaved versus 28 (7%) in non-bereaved parents (RR 2.3; 95% CI 1.6 to 3.5). For those without psychological premorbidity, the relative risk was 2.3 (95% CI 1.4 to 3.6). 339 (51%) suicide-bereaved parents expressed worry over the child's psychological health during the month preceding the suicide and 259 (39%) had anticipated the suicide.
conclusionsIn parents who lost a child through suicide in Sweden we did not find a higher prevalence of long-term psychological premorbidity than among parents who had not lost a child; the more than twofold risk of depression among the bereaved can probably be explained by the suicide and the stressful time preceding the suicide.
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