Rates and risks of complicated grief among psychiatric clinic patients in Karachi, Pakistan.
The aim of this study was to determine rates and risks of Complicated Grief (CG) among psychiatric clinic patients in Karachi, Pakistan. The Inventory of Traumatic Grief, an early version of Inventory of Complicated Grief--Revised, was administered to 151 recently bereaved patients, with validated criteria applied to determine CG "caseness." Thirty-four percent of the sample met criteria for CG. Although violent deaths did not pose a heightened CG risk, gender and kinship to the deceased did significantly increase the likelihood of meeting of criteria for CG.
Prigerson
Holly
H
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Holly.Prigerson@Yale.edu
Ahmed
Irshad
I
Silverman
Gabriel K
GK
Saxena
Atulya K
AK
Maciejewski
Paul K
PK
Jacobs
Selby C
SC
Kasl
Stanislav V
SV
Aqeel
Noorulain
N
Hamirani
Munir
M
D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D010154:Pakistan / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D014754:Violence