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ArticleThe Journal of nervous and mental disease2025

Assessing Grief and Prolonged Grief Disorder: Can One Size Fit All?

Holly G Prigerson, Paul K Maciejewski

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Article in The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Holly G PrigersonDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine.ORCID 0000-0002-7075-4268
Paul K MaciejewskiDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine.

Funding

Psychosocial Approaches to Better Understanding & End-Stage Cancer Care (PROTECT)R35CA197730 · NCI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Holly Gwen Prigerson · 2015 to 2026
$11.2M
A Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial of EMPOWER for Family Surrogates of Critically Ill PatientsR01NR019831 · NINR · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI LICHTENTHAL, WENDY G., PRIGERSON, HOLLY GWEN · 2022 to 2025
$3.2M
Bridge to Better End-of-Life Care for Patients with Cancer: Connecting Healthcare Chaplains with Spiritual Care Providers in Faith CommunitiesR01NR021159 · NINR · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI ASTROW, ALAN BENNETT, MACIEJEWSKI, PAUL K · 2024 to 2025
$1.7M
Pilot Trial of a "Divine Intervention" to Improve End-of-Life Cancer Care for Black PatientsR21MD017652 · NIMHD · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI MACIEJEWSKI, PAUL K, PRIGERSON, HOLLY GWEN · 2023 to 2025
$495k
The Living Memory Home: Reducing Grief and Improving Relationships between Home-based Patients with ADRD and Their Family CaregiversR21AG077144 · NIA · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI FALZARANO, FRANCESCA, PRIGERSON, HOLLY GWEN · 2023 to 2024
$481k
Communicating the Gist of Prognosis: An intervention to improve prognostic understanding in advanced lymphomaR21MD017704 · NIMHD · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI MCCONNELL, KELLY, PRIGERSON, HOLLY GWEN · 2022 to 2023
$466k
NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197730NIA NIH HHS R21 AG077144NIMHD NIH HHS MD017652NIMHD NIH HHS MD017704NIMHD NIH HHS R21 MD017652NIMHD NIH HHS R21 MD017704NINR NIH HHS R01 NR019831NINR NIH HHS R01 NR021159
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to provide conceptual, technical, and practical explanations for why a single instrument can serve as a multi-purpose measure of grief. Our thesis is based on a conceptualization of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) as persistent, intense grief. We show how grief severity (i.e., a dimensional component) and persistence of intense grief based on the amount of time that has elapsed since the death (i.e., a temporal component) permit a reliable and accurate method for distinguishing pathological grief (i.e., PGD) from nonpathological grief. In principle, any instrument that assesses these basic dimensional and temporal aspects of grief adequately will suffice to assess grief and PGD. Psychiatric measurement tools can be adapted to fit essentially all applications aimed at assessing grief, both pathological and not.

Indexed as

GriefProlonged Grief DisorderHumansPsychiatric Status Rating Scalesassessmentbereavementcomplicated griefdiagnosticsgriefmeasurementprolonged griefPsychiatric epidemiology

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PMID40719183
PMCPMC12282586

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