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Consensus criteria for traumatic grief. A preliminary empirical test.

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Prigerson, HG; Shear, MK; Jacobs, SC; Reynolds, CF; Maciejewski, PK; Davidson, JR; Rosenheck, R; Pilkonis, PA; Wortman, CB; Williams, JB ...
Published in: Br J Psychiatry
January 1999

BACKGROUND: Studies suggest that symptoms of traumatic grief constitute a distinct syndrome worthy of diagnosis. AIMS: A consensus conference aimed to develop and test a criteria set for traumatic grief. METHOD: The expert panel proposed consensus criteria for traumatic grief. Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analyses tested the performance of the proposed criteria on 306 widowed respondents at seven months post loss. RESULTS: ROC analyses indicated that three of four separation distress symptoms (e.g. yearning, searching, loneliness) had to be endorsed as at least 'sometimes true' and four of the final eight traumatic distress symptoms (e.g. numbness, disbelief, distrust, anger, sense of futility about the future) had to be endorsed as at least 'mostly true' to yield a sensitivity of 0.93 and a specificity of 0.93 for a diagnosis of traumatic grief. CONCLUSIONS: Preliminary analyses suggest the consensus criteria for traumatic grief have satisfactory operating characteristics, and point to directions for further refinement of the criteria set.

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Br J Psychiatry

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0007-1250

Publication Date

January 1999

Volume

174

Start / End Page

67 / 73

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Wounds and Injuries
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
  • ROC Curve
  • Psychiatry
  • Humans
  • Grief
  • 52 Psychology
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
 

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Prigerson, H. G., Shear, M. K., Jacobs, S. C., Reynolds, C. F., Maciejewski, P. K., Davidson, J. R., … Zisook, S. (1999). Consensus criteria for traumatic grief. A preliminary empirical test. Br J Psychiatry, 174, 67–73. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.174.1.67
Prigerson, H. G., M. K. Shear, S. C. Jacobs, C. F. Reynolds, P. K. Maciejewski, J. R. Davidson, R. Rosenheck, et al. “Consensus criteria for traumatic grief. A preliminary empirical test.Br J Psychiatry 174 (January 1999): 67–73. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.174.1.67.
Prigerson HG, Shear MK, Jacobs SC, Reynolds CF, Maciejewski PK, Davidson JR, et al. Consensus criteria for traumatic grief. A preliminary empirical test. Br J Psychiatry. 1999 Jan;174:67–73.
Prigerson, H. G., et al. “Consensus criteria for traumatic grief. A preliminary empirical test.Br J Psychiatry, vol. 174, Jan. 1999, pp. 67–73. Pubmed, doi:10.1192/bjp.174.1.67.
Prigerson HG, Shear MK, Jacobs SC, Reynolds CF, Maciejewski PK, Davidson JR, Rosenheck R, Pilkonis PA, Wortman CB, Williams JB, Widiger TA, Frank E, Kupfer DJ, Zisook S. Consensus criteria for traumatic grief. A preliminary empirical test. Br J Psychiatry. 1999 Jan;174:67–73.
Journal cover image

Published In

Br J Psychiatry

DOI

ISSN

0007-1250

Publication Date

January 1999

Volume

174

Start / End Page

67 / 73

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Wounds and Injuries
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
  • ROC Curve
  • Psychiatry
  • Humans
  • Grief
  • 52 Psychology
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences