ArticleThe American journal of psychiatry2018
The Burden of Bereavement: Early-Onset Depression and Impairment in Youths Bereaved by Sudden Parental Death in a 7-Year Prospective Study.
Article in The American journal of psychiatry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. It is linked to trial NCT07318090 (Developing a Family-Focused Treatment for Prolonged Grief for Parental Suicide Bereaved Families With Children), which is not on this map. Cited by 43 papers.
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Developing a Family-Focused Treatment for Prolonged Grief for Parental Suicide Bereaved Families With Children
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 117 citations in OpenAlex.
- Preventing Adverse Outcomes for Bereaved Youth: Indirect Effects From a Randomized Trial of the Family Bereavement Program on Fear of Abandonment, Grief, and Mental Health.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2024Trial
- Bereavement Interventions for Children and Adolescents: An Evidence and Gap Map of Primary Studies and Systematic Reviews.Campbell systematic reviews · 2026Article
- Parental death and parental substance use problems during childhood and the risk of DSM-5 substance use, suicidality and mental health disorders.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- War orphan age at father loss and resilience in late adolescence.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2026Article
- Supporting Adolescents Bereaved by Suicide or Other Traumatic Death: The Views of Counselors.Omega · 2026Article
- Childhood Mortality by Parental Cause of Death.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Consideration of culture in interpersonal psychotherapy practice in Asia: a case study.Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B · 2026Article
- Parental loss: prevalence estimates and mental health impacts from the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing.Australian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Applying a Socio-Ecological Model to Understanding the Needs of Children and Young People Bereaved by Intimate Partner Homicide across their Life Course.Journal of family violence · 2026Article
- A World That Recognises, Validates, and Supports Young People's Grief: A Co-Designed Study.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2025Article
- Children's Experiences of Parental Deaths Due to Suicide, Homicide, Overdose, Alcohol, or Drug Use.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Stress Resilience and Risk of Psychiatric Disorders After Childhood Bereavement.JAMA network open · 2025Article
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- Latent profiles of coping and subjective views in parentally bereaved children: Predicting depression symptoms, intrusive grief, and suicidality over time.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Growing around grief: the lived experience of parentally-bereaved young people in the UK.Mortality (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Birth order moderates the association between adverse childhood experiences and externalizing behavior symptoms in adolescence.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2025Article
- Development and validation of the caregiver-report version of the international grief questionnaire (IGQ-CG): Results from a Ukrainian sample of parents.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2024Article
- Youth Experiencing Parental Death Due to Drug Poisoning and Firearm Violence in the US, 1999-2020.JAMA · 2024Observational
- Parental separation and death during childhood as predictors of adult psychopathology: An examination of racial differences.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2024Article
- Adolescents' primary care consultations before and after parental suicide: evidence from population-wide data.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe authors sought to determine the long-term impact of sudden parental death on youths and pathways between youth bereavement and impairment.
methodsYouths (N=216) who lost a parent to suicide, accident, or sudden natural death and nonbereaved youths (N=172) were followed periodically for up to 7 years. The incidence and prevalence of disorder and of functional impairment, as well as pathways to impairment, were assessed using Cox and mixed-effects logistic regression and structural equation modeling.
resultsPrior to parental death, bereaved youths had higher rates of psychiatric disorder, parental psychiatric disorder, and maltreatment. Even after adjustment for predeath risk factors, bereavement was associated with an increased incidence of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and functional impairment. The peak incidence of depression was in the first 2 years postbereavement, with incident depression occurring mainly in those who lost a parent at age 12 or younger. Youths bereaved by all three causes of death showed higher rates of impairment at all time points. Structural equation modeling found that bereavement had a direct effect on impairment and was also linked to impairment via its effects on early and later depression and through negative life events. Child psychiatric disorder prior to parental loss also contributed to functional impairment.
conclusionsParental death increased the incidence of depression in offspring early in the course of bereavement. Early identification and treatment of depression in bereaved youths and augmentation of family resilience may protect against later sequelae of functional impairment.
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