Screening for Complicated Grief Among Project Liberty Service Recipients 18 Months After September 11, 2001

Shear, Katherine; Jackson, Carlos T.; Essock, Susan M.; Donahue, Sheila A.; Felton, M.S.W. Chip J.

doi:10.1176/ps.2006.57.9.1291

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“…Experiencing symptoms ‘yearning’, ‘stunned’, ‘life is empty’ and ‘bitterness’ often during the past month at T1 predicted membership of classes with a problematic grief trajectory. The indicators found in our study are different from the symptoms selected in earlier studies examining early indicators of disturbed grief (Guldin, O’Connor, Sokolowski, Jensen, & Vedsted, 2011; Melhem et al, 2013; Shear, Jackson, Essock, Donahue, & Felton, 2006). There could be several reasons for this.…”

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Early indicators of problematic grief trajectories following bereavement

Djelantik

Smid

Kleber

et al. 2017

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Little is known about the development of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) symptoms over time in adults. For clinical purposes, it would be useful to have knowledge about early indicators of a problematic grief trajectory. Objective: This study aimed to identify classes of bereaved individuals with similar trajectories of PGD symptoms and to design a provisional screening tool including symptoms predicting membership of classes with problematic grief trajectories. Method: In a Dutch sample of 166 bereaved individuals, we conducted a latent class analysis to identify classes of bereaved individuals with similar trajectories of PGD symptoms between two time points (mean of 6 and 18 months post-loss, respectively). Next, we used Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analyses to examine which symptoms at baseline best predicted membership of classes with problematic grief trajectories. Results: We found four different classes: a class including individuals with persistent high PGD symptoms (class 1, 6%), a class of individuals with persistent moderate PGD symptoms (class 2, 35%), a class of individuals with slightly decreasing moderate PGD symptoms (class 3, 33%) and a class of individuals with persistent low PGD symptoms (class 4, 26%). The endorsement of symptoms ‘yearning’, ‘stunned’, ‘life is empty’ and ‘bitterness’ as present ‘often’ during the preceding month at baseline best-predicted membership of class 1 or 2. Conclusions: Two classes of individuals with problematic grief trajectories were identified. Four symptoms were found which could act as early indicators of these two classes in a provisional screening tool.

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“…Furthermore, the methodology differed. For instance, in the study of Shear et al (2006), experts selected the screening items, while in other studies ROC analyses were used.…”

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Early indicators of problematic grief trajectories following bereavement

Djelantik

Smid

Kleber

et al. 2017

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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“…The estimated prevalence of CG was over 70%, much higher than documented prevalence of CG among the general population, which ranges from 2.5% to 25% (Kersting et al, 2011;Mizuno et al, 2012;Newson et al, 2011). It was also higher than findings in other post-disaster studies with rates between 37% and 45% (Johannesson et al, , 2009(Johannesson et al, , , 2011Kristensen et al, 2009;Neria et al, 2007;Shear et al, 2006). This is comparable only to one study conducted among 400 earthquake survivors in Iran, in which 76% of respondents were screened positive for CG (Ghaffari-Nejad et al, 2007).…”

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Prevalence and risk factors of complicated grief among Sichuan earthquake survivors

Jiang

Chow

Shi

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Journal of Affective Disorders

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“…Around the same time as the refinement of the PGD-2009 criteria, Shear and colleagues built on the earlier conceptualization of disordered grief as CG and proposed important mechanisms for the behavioural and biological aetiology (Shear et al, 2007; Zisook & Shear, 2009). Shear and colleagues proposed alternative diagnostic criteria for CG developed from a large clinical sample of treatment-seeking individuals and from a consensus with clinical experts (Reynolds et al, 2017; Shear, 2015; Shear, Jackson, Essock, Donahue, & Felton, 2006; Shear et al, 2011). The PGD-2009 criteria and CG criteria differ in terms of the populations in which they were assessed, the statistical methods used to assess the criteria, the number of items required to receive a diagnosis and descriptions of the items (Maciejewski & Prigerson, 2017; Reynolds et al, 2017).…”

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Prolonged grief disorder for ICD-11: the primacy of clinical utility and international applicability

Killikelly

Maercker

2017

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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A new mental health disorder, prolonged grief disorder (PGD), will be included in the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). We provide a brief overview of the historical conceptualizations of disordered grief and the previous research efforts to assess and define this condition. We describe the new ICD-11 PGD symptom criteria and how they are conceptualized in terms of the World Health Organization’s call for improved clinical utility. Finally, we review the research evidence for the clinical utility of the new ICD-11 PGD symptom structure and usability in the international arena.

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Screening for Complicated Grief Among Project Liberty Service Recipients 18 Months After September 11, 2001

Abstract: Results affirmed the importance of complicated grief as a unique condition and indicated the need to attend to the psychological consequences of bereavement in disaster-related mental health services.

Cited by 179 publications

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Early indicators of problematic grief trajectories following bereavement

Early indicators of problematic grief trajectories following bereavement

Prevalence and risk factors of complicated grief among Sichuan earthquake survivors

Prolonged grief disorder for ICD-11: the primacy of clinical utility and international applicability

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