title: [A comparison of effects of four modes of death on health, depression and grief of the bereaved].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate how the mode of death affect health and emotional reaction.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed 178 responses to a questionnaire from the bereaved. The respondents were divided into 4 groups: bereaved by suicide, accident, acute death (less than a day from onset), and illness-related death (less than a year from onset).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The suicide, accident and acute death groups indicated averages higher than or as high as the clinical threshold on both general health scale and depression scale. Differences among groups appeared on all but the subscales of somatic symptoms and of anxiety & insomnia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The cause-of-death factor has an effect on the bereavement reaction. The effect seemed more apparent on emotion than on physical health.
authors.affiliation: Miyagi University, School of Nursing.
authors.forename: Sachie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miyabayashi
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yasuda
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents / Q000401:mortality; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001601:Bereavement; D002423:Cause of Death; D003645:Death, Sudden; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013405:Suicide; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires