Prolonged grief disorder: Its co-occurrence with adjustment disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder in a bereaved Israeli general-population sample

Killikelly, Clare; Lorenz, Louisa; Bauer, Susanna; Mahat-Shamir, Michal; Ben-Ezra, Menachem; Maercker, Andreas

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2019.02.014

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Killikelly, C., Lorenz, L., Bauer, S., Mahat-Shamir, M., Ben-Ezra, M., & Maercker, A. (2019). Prolonged grief disorder: Its co-occurrence with adjustment disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder in a bereaved Israeli general-population sample. Journal of Affective Disorders, 249, 307–314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.02.014

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is a new disorder included in the WHO International Classification of Diseases 11th version (ICD-11). This study is the first to use these new ICD-11 PGD guidelines to examine prevalence rates, predictors of PGD and disorder co-occurrence with other stress-related disorders in a survey of 544 bereaved Israelis.

METHODS: Descriptive statistics, correlation, linear regression and mediation analysis examined the validity of the ICD-11 diagnostic algorithm.

RESULTS: Prevalence of PGD in the Isr