Somatic symptom distress and ICD-11 prolonged grief in a large intercultural sample

Autor: Severin Hennemann, Clare Killikelly, Philip Hyland, Andreas Maercker, Michael Witthöft
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: European Journal of Psychotraumatology, Vol 14, Iss 2 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 20008066
2000-8066
DOI: 10.1080/20008066.2023.2254584
Popis: ABSTRACTBackground: Grief is a multi-faceted experience including emotional, social, and physical reactions. Research in ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder (PGD) in different cultural contexts has revealed different or potentially missing grief symptoms that may be relevant.Objective: This study thus aimed to explore the prevalence of somatic symptom distress and its associations with grief and negative affect in a culturally diverse sample of bereaved individuals with symptoms of PGD.Methods: Based on cross-sectional survey data from the Measurement and Assessment of Grief (MAGIC) project, this study included 1337 participants (mean age 23.79 yrs, 76.1% female) from three regions (USA: 62.3%, Turkey/Iran: 24.2%, Cyprus/Greece: 13.5%), who experienced a loss of a significant other. Associations between somatic symptom distress (Somatic Symptom Scale, SSS-8), symptoms of PGD (International Prolonged Grief Disorder Scale, IPGDS-33), anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire, GAD-7), depression (Patient Health Questionnaire, PHQ-9) as well as demographic and loss related characteristics were investigated. Three hundred and thirteen participants (23.4%) scored above the proposed cut-off for clinically severe PGD.Results: ‘High’ or ‘very high’ levels of somatic symptom distress were more frequent in a possible PGD group (58.2%), than in a non-PGD group (22.4%), p
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