[Experience of loss and complicated grief in depressive inpatients].
OBJECTIVE
Inpatients diagnosed with major depression that had lost a loved person were asked about loss-related variables and symptoms of complicated grief (CG).


RESULTS
CG was assessed by the Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG-R). 14.2% of n = 127 individuals with unipolar depression met the criteria for CG. Depressive patients with CG compared to those without CG had a lower educational level; reported a higher loss-related burden at the time of loss, during the survey and the year after the loss; had significant different closeness within the relationships to the deceased; and time of loss was more recently.


CONCLUSIONS
An adequate differential diagnostic is essential for the treatment of major depression. Therefore loss-related factors and symptoms of complicated grief must be investigated regularly.
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Universität Leipzig.
Grit
G
Klinitzke
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg.
Katharina
K
Domschke
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Universität Leipzig.
Birgit
B
Wagner
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Münster.
Benedikt
B
Klauke
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Universität Leipzig.
Anette
A
Kersting
D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D000328:Adult; D001601:Bereavement; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010343:Patient Admission; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012307:Risk Factors