ArticleSuicide & life-threatening behavior2024
The impact of relationship type and closeness on mental health following suicide loss.
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- Gendered patterns of common mental health outcomes and suicidal ideation after suicide bereavement and the role of perceived social support.Health promotion international · 2026Article
- Understanding the Impact of Exposure to Different Types of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors.AJPM focus · 2026Article
- Retraining the veterans health administration's REACH VET suicide risk prediction model for patients involved in the legal system.Npj mental health research · 2025Article
- Surviving families: experiences of losing a family member to suicide.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Predictors of Prolonged Grief in Suicide Loss Survivors: The Role of Social Invalidation, Meaning in Life and Time Since Loss.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyArticle
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backgroundMost research investigating the effect of suicide on loss survivors has been limited to first-degree family members. Few studies examine the impact of suicide on others outside the immediate family and the influence of relationship type and closeness on mental health.
methodsThis study used data from a sample obtained through random digit dialing (n = 805) to assess exposure to suicide loss, relationship types, perceived closeness, and mental health symptoms (prolonged grief, depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder).
resultsFamilial status, friend status, and higher perceived closeness were associated with prolonged grief, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder, with the strongest adjusted associations observed for posttraumatic stress disorder and prolonged grief. In general, the magnitude of adjusted standardized associations for closeness and mental health symptoms was stronger than those observed for familial status and mental health symptoms and friend status and mental health symptoms.
conclusionCloseness, familial status, and friend status are associated with mental health symptoms experienced after suicide loss, but the magnitude of associations was strongest for closeness. Future studies should examine perceived closeness in addition to other factors related to relationship type and dynamics to assess the complexities of suicide bereavement reactions.
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