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ArticleBMC psychiatry2020

Gender differential impact of bereavement on health outcomes: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, 2011-2015.

Zhuo Chen, Jiahui Ying, Justin Ingles, Donglan Zhang, Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa, Ruoxi Wang, Kerstin Gerst Emerson, Zhanchun Feng

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Article in BMC psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07193732 (The Application of Islamically Integrated Chair-Work Techniques For Unfinished Business in Patients With Prolonged Grief), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT07193732 naenrolling by invitationnot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

The Application of Islamically Integrated Chair-Work Techniques For Unfinished Business in Patients With Prolonged Grief

TypeinterventionalSponsorIbn Haldun UniversityRan2024 to 2026Enrolled15ConditionsGrief, Emotion Regulation, BereavementArmsPsychotherapy-Empathic Attunement Phase, Psychotherapy - Chair-work intervention phase, Psychotherapy - Cognitive consolidation and spiritually behavioral activation phase
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhuo ChenCollege of Public Health University of Georgia, Wright Hall 305B, 100 Foster Rd, Athens, GA, 30602, USA. zchen1@uga.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5351-3489
Jiahui YingCollege of Public Health University of Georgia, Wright Hall 305B, 100 Foster Rd, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Justin InglesCollege of Public Health University of Georgia, Wright Hall 305B, 100 Foster Rd, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Donglan ZhangCollege of Public Health University of Georgia, Wright Hall 305B, 100 Foster Rd, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Janani Rajbhandari-ThapaCollege of Public Health University of Georgia, Wright Hall 305B, 100 Foster Rd, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Ruoxi WangHuazhong University of Science and Technology of China, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China.
Kerstin Gerst EmersonCollege of Public Health University of Georgia, Wright Hall 305B, 100 Foster Rd, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Zhanchun FengHuazhong University of Science and Technology of China, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China.
University of Georgia · USHuazhong University of Science and Technology · CNUniversity of Nottingham Ningbo China · CN

Funding

Using machine learning and causal inference approaches to investigate disparities in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias outcomesR01MD013886 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI ZHANG, DONGLAN · 2019 to 2022
$2.4M
NIMHD NIH HHS R01 MD013886
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBereavement is the experience of an individual following the death of a person of significance to the individual, most often referring to the spouse. Increased morbidity, health care utilization, and mortality are known to be associated with bereavement. Given China's growing population of older adults, there is a critical need to assess the health consequences of bereavement.

methodWe use data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study to examine the impact of bereavement on mental health and quality of life among a sample of mid- and older-aged adults. We use propensity score matching to construct a matching sample and difference-in-differences method to estimate the impact of bereavement on mental health and self-assessed health.

resultsWe find bereavement is associated with increased depression symptoms among women (1.542 point or 0.229 standard deviations of Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) 10 score) but not consistently for men over time. No statistically significant effect of bereavement on self-assessed health is found.

conclusionsOur results show a harmful impact of bereavement on mental health among older women in China and point to the need for a comprehensive policy on survivor benefits in China, particularly for rural older women.

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Quality of LifeRetirementAgedBereavementChinaDepressionFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedBereavementCenter for Epidemiologic Studies Depression ScaleChinaSelf-assessed healthSurvivor benefits

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