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The Burden of Loss: Unexpected Death of a Loved One and Psychiatric Disorders Across the Life Course in a National Study
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OBJECTIVE: Unexpected death of a loved one is common and associated with subsequent elevations in symptoms of multiple forms of psychopathology. Determining whether this experience predicts novel onset of psychiatric disorders and whether these associations vary across the life course has important clinical implications. The authors examined associations of a loved one's unexpected death with first onset of common anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders in a population-based sample. METHOD: The relation between unexpected death of a loved one and first onset of lifetime DSM-IV disorders was estimated by using a structured interview of adults in the U.S. general population (analytic sample size=27,534). Models controlled for prior occurrence of any disorder, other traumatic experiences, and demographic variables. RESULTS: Unexpected death of a loved one was the most common traumatic experience and most likely to be rated as the respondent's worst, regardless of other traumatic experiences. Increased incidence after unexpected death was observed at nearly every point across the life course for major depressive episode, panic disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Increased incidence was clustered in later adult age groups for manic episode, phobias, alcohol use disorders, and generalized anxiety disorder. CONCLUSIONS: The bereavement period is associated with elevated risk for the onset of multiple psychiatric disorders, consistently across the life course and coincident with the experience of the loved one's death. Novel associations between unexpected death and onset of several disorders, including mania, confirm multiple case reports and results of small studies and suggest an important emerging area for clinical research and practice.
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“As for mental health, findings suggest an increased risk of depression, anxiety, and substance use disorder after bereavement (Keyes et al., 2014).”
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“As such, it seems likely that the increased incidence for major depression, panic disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder (Keyes et al., 2014), as well as the substantially increased risk of acute myocardial infarction (Mostofsky et al., 2012) linked to bereavement and profound grief after the loss of a partner, are also at least partially mediated by a”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Keyes, K. M., Pratt, C., Galea, S., McLaughlin, K. A., Koenen, K. C., & Shear, M. K.
- Affiliations
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- American Journal of Psychiatry
- Published
- 2014-08
- Volume
- 171
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 864-871
- ISSN
- 0002-953X (ISSN-L)
- 1535-7228
- PMC
- PMC4119479
- OpenAlex
- W2111636212
- Cited by
- 398
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
- 2026: 28 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 47 · 2023: 55 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 41 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 5
- FWCI
- 17.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- American Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01mh093612-03, MH093612)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (AA-021511, K01AA021511)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH093612, MH-092526, R01MH070741, R01MH078928, MH60783, R01-MH093612, MH-078928, MH70741, R01MH060783, K01MH092526)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Keywords
- bereavement, life course, major depressive episode, manic episodes, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, alcoholism, substance use disorders, traumatic events, DSM-IV disorders
- MeSH terms
- Age Factors, Mental Disorders, Bereavement, Death, Humans, United States, Incidence, Cost of Illness
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