ReviewGlobal mental health (Cambridge, England)2023
Bereavement issues and prolonged grief disorder: A global perspective.
Review in Global mental health (Cambridge, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 64 citations in OpenAlex.
- Family Bereavement Support Interventions in Specialist Adult Palliative Care: A Rapid Mixed-Methods Systematic Review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Complicated grief following the perinatal loss: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Online Thematic Expressive Writing on Prolonged Grief Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, and Positive Mental Health among Refugees in the Transition Stage of Asylum Seeking.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2026Trial
- Exploring Prolonged Grief Experiences of Ethnoracial Minoritized Caregivers: An Emic Perspective.Research in nursing & health · 2026Article
- Lonely boats swaying in the storm: experiences and supportive needs of adult only-children confronting parental end-of-life care: a qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Mobile-Based Ecological Momentary Interventions for Grief in China and Switzerland: Protocol for a Collaborative and Iterative Qualitative App Development Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Article
- Comparing user satisfaction with grief-informed texts to other types of bereavement support in the United Kingdom.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Validation of an assessment of prolonged grief disorder among Mexican mourners.Palliative & supportive care · 2026Article
- German-language adaptation of the Bereavement Risk Assessment Tool (BRAT): findings on the inter-rater reliability.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Grief and Psychopathology in Bereaved Caregivers of Palliative Care Patients: The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Distress, Burden and Social Support.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
- Articulating Grief: Arts-Based Therapy as a Pathway to Resilience in Nursing Practice.International journal of mental health nursing · 2026Article
- Prolonged grief in African contexts: Scale validation, prevalence rates and risk factors among young adults in Kenya, Namibia and South Africa.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Exploring public perceptions of artificial intelligence in bereavement support: a qualitative study of griefbots.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- Development and validation of a new yearning induction task: a cross-cultural study of Chinese and Swiss bereaved.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Emotional vs. social loneliness and prolonged grief: a random-intercept cross-lagged panel model.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
- Treating Young Refugees with a Grief-Focused Group Therapy-A Feasibility Trial.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Participants' Perceptions of Advantages and Drawbacks of "Drop-In" Versus "Closed-Group" Formats Related to Cancer Bereavement Program Delivery.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Article
- Interventions for Prolonged Grief Disorder in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The death of a loved one - bereavement - is a universal experience that marks the human mental health condition. Grief - the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to bereavement - is thus experienced by virtually everyone at some point in life, while mourning is a process through which grievers come to terms with the loss envisioning life without the deceased. Although distress subsides over time among most bereaved individuals, a minority will develop a condition recently identified as prolonged grief disorder (PGD). The present review provides a global perspective on bereavement, grief reactions, and PGD. Although the loss of a loved one and grief reactions are in general experienced consistently across different cultures, differences and variations in their expression may exist across cultures. Especially within specific populations that may be more at risk for PGD, possibly due to risk factors associated with the mechanisms of loss (e.g., refugees, migrants, and conflict survivors). The diagnostic criteria for PGD are mostly based on Western grieving populations, and cultural adaptations of PGD treatments are limited. Therefore, cross-cultural development and validation of PGD screening/assessment is critical to support future research on grief reactions and PGD, especially in non-Western contexts, and concerning the potential future global changes and challenges that appear to have a major impact on PGD. More transcultural research on PGD is needed to contextualize and will lead to culture-bound symptom identification of PGD, and the adaptation of current treatment protocols, which may ultimately improve health at the individual level, and health-care systems.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.