Rates and risks for prolonged grief disorder in a sample of orphaned and widowed genocide survivors

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Schaal, Susanne ^a,b   Jacob, Nadja ^a,b   Dusingizemungu, Jean Pierre ^c   Elbert, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b Universität Konstanz und Vivo International EV   (Germany)

^c University of Butare   (Rwanda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; GENOCIDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOURNING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROLONGED GRIEF DISORDER; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; WIDOW; ADOLESCENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; GRIEF; HOMICIDE; HOSPITALIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE EVENT; ORPHANED CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RWANDA; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD, ORPHANED; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; RWANDA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 77954199050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-10-55     Document Type: Article

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