ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2020
Symptoms of prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression in recently bereaved people: symptom profiles, predictive value, and cognitive behavioural correlates.
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- Traumatic loss: a systematic review of potential risk factors differentiating between posttraumatic stress disorder and prolonged grief disorder.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Pooled it
- Measuring Grief in the Context of Traumatic Loss: A Systematic Review of Assessment Instruments.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Pooled it
- Self-guided online treatment of disturbed grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression in adults bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial.Behaviour research and therapy · 2023Trial
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- Relational Needs in Grief Scale: Development and Psychometric Validation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Exploring reactivity effects of self-monitoring prolonged grief reactions in daily life: A randomized waitlist-controlled trial using experience sampling methodology.Internet interventions · 2025Article
- Interpersonal Needs and Dysfunctional Self-Focus Mediate the Effect of Dysfunctional Pandemic Grief on Suicidality Among Nursing Professionals Who Witnessed Patients' Deaths.Journal of Korean medical science · 2025Article
- Grief, depression and psychotic-like experiences among bereaved college students: the predictive role of attitudes towards death.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Cross-cultural assessment of prolonged grief symptomatology in Switzerland, Rwanda, and Viet Nam: protocol for an experience sampling study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Testing the cognitive-behavioral model of prolonged grief disorder (PGD): distinct and shared pathways to PTSD and depression.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Prevalence and Co-Occurrence of Psychiatric Conditions Among Bereaved Adults.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Prolonged grief, reconstruction of meaning, and posttraumatic growth in nursing home residents who have lost loved ones.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2024Article
- Validation of the Pandemic Grief Risk Factors and Its Relationship With Work-Related Stress and Grief Reaction Among Healthcare Workers Who Witnessed Patient Deaths.Journal of Korean medical science · 2024Article
- Influence of loss- and restoration-oriented stressors on grief in times of COVID-19.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Needs for help and received help for those bereaved by a drug-related death: a cross-sectional study.Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT · 2023Article
- Commentary on: A Call to Action: Facing the Shadow Pandemic of Complicated Forms of Grief.Omega · 2023Article
- Bereavement issues and prolonged grief disorder: A global perspective.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2023Review
- Grief reactions in relation to professional and social support among family members of persons who died from sudden cardiac arrest: A longitudinal survey study.Resuscitation plus · 2022Article
- Loss-Related Characteristics and Symptoms of Depression, Prolonged Grief, and Posttraumatic Stress Following Suicide Bereavement.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Prolonged grief disorder in DSM-5-TR: Early predictors and longitudinal measurement invariance.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposePrior latent class analyses (LCA) have focused on people who were bereaved more than 6 months earlier. Research has yet to examine patterns and correlates of emotional responses in the first few months of bereavement. We examined whether subgroups could be identified among very recently (≤ 6 months) bereaved adults, based on their endorsement of symptoms of prolonged grief disorder (PGD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and depression. Associations of class membership with overall disturbed grief, PTSD, and depression-assessed concurrently and at 6 months follow-up-were examined. Furthermore, we examined differences between classes regarding socio-demographics, loss-related, and cognitive behavioural variables.
methodsPGD, PTSD, and depression self-report data from 322 Dutch individuals bereaved ≤ 6 months earlier were subjected to LCA; N = 159 completed the follow-up assessment. Correlates of class membership were examined.
resultsThree classes were identified: a low symptom class (N = 114; 35.4%), a predominantly PGD class (N = 96; 29.8%), and a high symptom class (N = 112; 34.8%). PGD, PTSD, and depression scores (assessed concurrently and at 6 months follow-up) differed significantly between classes, such that low symptom class < predominantly PGD class < high symptom class. Being a woman, younger, more recently bereaved, experiencing deaths of a partner/child and unnatural losses, plus maladaptive cognitions and avoidance behaviours were associated with membership of the pervasive symptom classes.
conclusionIn the first 6 months of bereavement, meaningful subgroups of bereaved people can be distinguished, which highlights the relevance of early detection of people with elevated bereavement-related distress and offering them preventive interventions that foster adaptation to loss.
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