title: The witnessing of disenfranchised grief: reliability and validity.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the psychometric properties of a newly designed instrument: Witnessing of Disenfranchised Grief (WDG).
  
  
  METHODS
  The 22-item questionnaire was administered to a community-based sample of convenience (N = 201). Each subject reported having experienced a loss by death or miscarriage. There was no stipulation regarding the timing of the loss.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The tool was found to be one dimensional with factor loadings of 0.40-0.78, inter-item correlation ranging from p < .01 to p < .05, and a Cronbach's alpha of 0.91. A loss that was viewed as witnessed resulted in decreased manifestation of some grief symptoms.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The WDG is a measure of the degree to which one who grieves perceives their loss to be witnessed.
authors.forename: Jean S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: St Clair
mesh_terms: D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires