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Kristensen, Pal; Weisaeth, Lars; Heir, Trond – Death Studies, 2010
The authors examined predictors of complicated grief (CG) in Norwegians 2 years after bereavement in the 2004 South-East Asian tsunami. A cross-sectional postal survey retrospectively covering disaster experiences and assessing CG according to the Inventory of Complicated Grief yielded 130 respondents (35 directly disaster-exposed and 95 not…
Descriptors: Grief, Natural Disasters, Predictor Variables, Emotional Response
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Bachner, Yaacov G.; O'Rourke, Norm; Carmel, Sara – Death Studies, 2011
Previous research suggests that caregivers and terminally ill patients face substantial difficulties discussing illness and death. Existing research, however, has focused primarily on the experience of patients. The current study compared responses as well as the relative strength of association between mortality communication, fear of death, and…
Descriptors: Cancer, Caregivers, Patients, Psychology