Grit Klinitzke 1 , Katharina Domschke 2 , Birgit Wagner 1 , Benedikt Klauke 3 , Anette Kersting 1 Show Affiliations »
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Inpatients diagnosed with major depression that had lost a loved person were asked about loss-related variables and symptoms of complicated grief (CG). METHODS AND RESULTS: CG was assessed by the Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG-R). 14.2% of n = 127 individuals with unipolar depression met the criteria for CG. Depressive patients with CG compared to those without CG had a lower educational level; reported a higher loss-related burden at the time of loss, during the survey and the year after the loss; had significant different closeness within the relationships to the deceased; and time of loss was more recently. CONCLUSIONS: An adequate differential diagnostic is essential for the treatment of major depression. Therefore loss-related factors and symptoms of complicated grief must be investigated regularly. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.
OBJECTIVE: Inpatients diagnosed with major depression that had lost a loved person were asked about loss-related variables and symptoms of complicated grief (CG ). METHODS AND RESULTS: CG was assessed by the Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG-R). 14.2% of n = 127 individuals with unipolar depression met the criteria for CG . Depressive patients with CG compared to those without CG had a lower educational level; reported a higher loss-related burden at the time of loss, during the survey and the year after the loss; had significant different closeness within the relationships to the deceased; and time of loss was more recently. CONCLUSIONS: An adequate differential diagnostic is essential for the treatment of major depression . Therefore loss-related factors and symptoms of complicated grief must be investigated regularly. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.
Entities: Chemical
Disease
Species
Mesh： See more »
Year: 2013
PMID： 23943078 DOI： 10.1055/s-0033-1349467
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychiatr Prax ISSN： 0303-4259