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Death Stud ; 23(7): 589-616, 1999.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10915453

ABSTRACT

Health status, health care utilization, and health behaviors of parents bereaved by the violent deaths of their adolescent and young adult children were examined 4, 12, and 24 months later. Participants were 261 bereaved parents (171 mothers, 90 fathers). About 20% of the parents reported "poor" physical health during the early bereavement period compared with 16% of Americans the same age. Over time, mothers' health improved whereas fathers' health deteriorated. Fathers in poor health compared with fathers in good health are 15 times more likely to report emotional distress and 4.6 times more likely to report trauma symptoms. Mothers in poor health compared with mothers in good health are 11 times more likely to report emotional distress and 3 times more likely to report trauma symptoms. Mothers' reports of physician visits and medication use were higher than fathers', however, mothers' rates for both decreased significantly over time whereas fathers' rates remained constant. Over 70% of the mothers and nearly 60% of the fathers practiced 2 or more health protective behaviors over time--a finding significantly associated with fewer stress-related illnesses, days absent from work, and non-productivity at work. Implications for the findings are discussed.


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Death , Parent-Child Relations , Parents , Violence , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Demography , Health Behavior , Health Services Needs and Demand , Health Status , Humans , Longitudinal Studies , Sex Factors
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Death Stud ; 22(3): 209-35, 1998.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10182433

ABSTRACT

This study assessed the efficacy of a 10-week broad-spectrum intervention offered to bereaved parents about 4 months after the deaths of their 12--28-year-old children due to accidents, homicide, or suicide. For three outcomes of distress there was a significant interaction between treatment and baseline values for each outcome for mothers both immediately posttreatment and 6 months later. The intervention appeared to be the most beneficial for mothers most distressed at baseline. Fathers showed no immediate benefits of treatment. Further research is needed to investigate these unexpected results for fathers and to further characterize those who benefit from similar programs.


Subject(s)
Bereavement , Parents , Psychotherapy, Group , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Cohort Studies , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Psychiatric Status Rating Scales , Sex Factors , Treatment Outcome , Violence
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Death Stud ; 20(5): 453-68, 1996.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10169700

ABSTRACT

A preventive intervention for 156 bereaved parents whose 12- to 28-year-old children died by accident, homicide, or suicide was tested using a multisite longitudinal cohort pretest/posttest experimental design. Reported here are bereaved parents' evaluations of the two-dimensional support program. Problem-focused support was rated by parents' perceptions of readiness, relevance, timing, and understanding of the information and skills presented. Emotion-focused support was rated by the identification of I. Yalom's (1985) therapeutic group factors and group leader/clinician support. Over 70% of all the person/session responses showed that both support dimensions were rated at 6 or 7 on a 7-point scale (e.g., 0 = not at all relevant, 7 = very relevant.) Additional exploratory analyses examined the extent to which 5 participant and treatment characteristics influenced parents' evaluations. Clinical implications and future research directions are suggested.


Subject(s)
Bereavement , Death , Preventive Psychiatry , Stress, Psychological/prevention & control , Violence , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Cohort Studies , Humans , Longitudinal Studies , Middle Aged , Parent-Child Relations , Program Evaluation , Psychotherapy, Group
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Med Care ; 26(2): 177-82, 1988 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-3339915

ABSTRACT

In this secondary analysis of data from the National Hospice Study (NHS), a new measure, quality of death (QOD), was developed by weighting reports of cancer patients' last 3 days of life by what patients wanted their last 3 days to be like. Using analysis of covariance, the QOD scores were higher for terminally ill patients in hospices (either home-care [HC] or hospital-based [HB]) than similar patients who received conventional care (CC). The results are discussed in terms of verification of the hospice philosophy and other uses for a quality of death measure.


Subject(s)
Attitude to Death , Hospices/standards , Terminal Care/psychology , Consumer Behavior , Data Collection , Humans , Neoplasms/psychology , Quality of Health Care , Quality of Life , Statistics as Topic , United States
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