{"id":1221,"date":"2017-04-15T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2017-04-21T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:24:48","slug":"shortcuts-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2017\/04\/15\/shortcuts-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpsmjournal.com\/article\/S0885-3924(16)31196-4\/abstract\"><b>Predictors of Complicated Grief and Depression in Bereaved Caregivers: A Nationwide Prospective Cohort Study.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nielsen MK, Neergaard MA, Jensen AB, et al.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">J Pain Symptom Manage. 2017 Mar;53(3):540-550<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A prospective survey of 3635 caregivers to terminally ill patients in Denmark was conducted. 2420 were bereaved within six months and of the survey, 2125 (88%) [mean age 62 years, 70% female] completed a post-loss follow-up questionnaire <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At baseline, around 15% were identified as having severe pre-loss grief symptoms and experienced moderate to severe depressive symptoms. Six months after the bereavement, complicated grief was reported in 7.6% and 12.1% had moderate to severe depressive symptoms. The predictors of complicated grief and post-loss depressive symptom were pre-loss depressive symptoms (adjusted OR=5.6), being a partner (adjusted OR=2.2) and low educational level (adjusted OR=2.0). 26% of caregivers who reported severe pre-loss grief symptoms developed complicated grief and 33% developed post-loss depressive symptom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Composed by Elaine Boland.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predictors of Complicated Grief and Depression in Bereaved Caregivers: A Nationwide Prospective Cohort Study. Nielsen MK, Neergaard MA, Jensen AB, et al. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2017 Mar;53(3):540-550 &nbsp; A prospective survey of 3635 caregivers to terminally ill patients in Denmark was conducted. 2420 were bereaved within six months and of the survey, 2125 (88%) [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2017\/04\/15\/shortcuts-86\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1982,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-cuts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}