Open AccessSerious Mental Illness Exacerbation Post-Bereavement: A Population-Based Study of Partners and Adult Children
Author(s) -
Djin Tay,
Lau Caspar Thygesen,
Elissa Kozlov,
Katherine Ornstein
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
clinical epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.868
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 1179-1349
DOI - 10.2147/clep.s372936
Subject(s) - medicine , psychiatry , mental illness , bipolar disorder , exacerbation , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , schizoaffective disorder , population , depression (economics) , mental health , pediatrics , psychosis , cognition , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics
The death of a close family member is commonly accompanied by intense grief, stress, and loss of social support. We hypothesized that recent bereavement would be associated with an increase in symptom exacerbations among adults with serious mental illness (SMI) whose partners or parents had died.