title: Survivors of Homicide: Mental Health Outcomes, Social Support, and Service Use Among a Community-Based Sample.
abstract: This study aims to explore rates of bereavement-related mental health outcomes and diagnostic comorbidity along with the associations between mental health outcomes, perceived social support, knowledge of services, and service use among a diverse sample of 47 survivors 2 years post loss. Findings are consistent with prior studies in that homicide is associated with an overlapping of significant symptom presentation of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and complicated grief (CG). Lack of grief-specific social support was demonstrated to be associated with PTSD and MDD but not with CG. Although a significant number of survivors reported poor mental health outcomes, a limited number were using services.
authors: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, USA.
authors: Alyssa A
authors: AA
authors: Rheingold
authors: Joah L
authors: JL
authors: Williams
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000379:methods; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006708:Homicide / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult