SynthesisJournal of traumatic stress2024
Bidirectional associations between prolonged grief symptoms and depressive, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress symptoms: A systematic review.
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- Bidirectional associations between prolonged grief symptoms and depressive, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress symptoms: A systematic review.Journal of traumatic stress · 2024Pooled it
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- Risk factors for maladaptive grief and posttraumatic stress in children and adolescents following loss: a systematic review.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Review
- Exploring grief dynamics and psychometric validation in arabic populations: Factorial validity and mediating roles of resilience, life satisfaction, and religiosity.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- The prevalence of prolonged grief disorder in patients with common mental disorders: a comparative study between patients with and without a refugee background in the Netherlands.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Mediating Effect of Depression and Anxiety on the Relationship Between Grief Reaction and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Lebanese Volunteers.Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- Unrecognized grief - Prevalence and comorbidity of prolonged grief among refugees in Sweden.Journal of migration and health · 2024Article
- Rumination, Hopelessness, Behavioural Avoidance and Psychopathology Symptoms After Bereavement: Serial Mediation Analyses.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyArticle
- Prolonged Grief in Refugees Seeking Treatment for PTSD: Comorbidity with Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Network Structure.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyArticle
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Abstract
Prolonged grief symptoms frequently co-occur with symptoms of depression, posttraumatic stress, and anxiety; however, little is known about how prolonged grief symptoms temporally relate to symptoms of neighboring stress-related and affective disorders. Clarifying such associations can help elucidate which symptoms to prioritize during treatment for distressed bereaved adults. We conducted a systematic review to provide a comprehensive overview of the empirical research on the bidirectional temporal associations between prolonged grief symptoms and symptoms of depression, posttraumatic stress, and anxiety. A search of the PsycInfo, Web of Science, and Scopus databases (final search: December 2023) identified eight relevant empirical longitudinal studies utilizing lower-level mediation (two studies), cross-lagged panel modeling (CLPM; four studies), or random-intercept CLPM (RI-CLPM; two studies). The studies included a total of 2,914 bereaved adult participants. Studies showed considerable methodological heterogeneity, including different sample characteristics, study designs (e.g., measurement moments, time frames), statistical analyses, and measures. Temporal associations between prolonged grief symptoms and different types of symptoms appeared intertwined. Prolonged grief symptoms more consistently predicted symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress across measurement waves than vice versa, tentatively suggesting that prolonged grief may be a transdiagnostic risk factor for depressive and PTS symptoms. However, this pattern was not observed in the two studies utilizing RI-CLPM. Future research should aim to decrease methodological heterogeneity by using validated measures to capture prolonged grief symptoms, appropriate timeframes, and RI-CLPM to clarify associations between temporal within-person fluctuations of prolonged grief, depressive, posttraumatic stress, and anxiety symptoms.
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