Complicated grief and associated risk factors among parents following a child's death in the pediatric intensive care unit

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1045-1051

  Meert, Kathleen L ^a   Donaldson, Amy E ^b   Newth, Christopher J L ^c   Harrison, Rick ^d   Berger, John ^e   Zimmerman, Jerry ^f   Anand, K J S ^g,l   Carcillo, Joseph ^h   Dean, J Michael ^b   Willson, Douglas F ⁱ   Nicholson, Carol ^j   Shear, Katherine ^k  

^a CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MATTEL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g ARKANSAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development   (United States)

^k Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEREAVEMENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD DEATH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COMPLICATED GRIEF; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INVENTORY OF COMPLICATED GRIEF; MALE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; PARENTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78149482637     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.187     Document Type: Article

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