Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11

By Holly Gwen Prigerson, M. Horowitz, S. Jacobs, C. Parkes, M. Aslan, K. Goodkin, B. Raphael, S. J. Marwit, C. Wortman, R. Neimeyer and 9 more. PLoS Medicine, 2009

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Holly Prigerson and colleagues tested the psychometric validity of criteria for prolonged grief disorder (PGD) to enhance the detection and care of bereaved individuals at heightened risk of persistent distress and dysfunction.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Clinical Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Prolonged grief disorder: Diagnostic, assessment, and treatment considerations. (2014, methodology): “More recently, the ICG has been distilled into the Prolonged Grief 13 (PG-13), a collection of the ICG's most informative and unbiased items (Prigerson et al., 2009).”
• The Temporal Elements of Psychological Resilience: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Individuals, Families, and Communities (2015, background): “The same advance has been witnessed more recently in relation to proposals for diagnostic criteria for CG (Boelen, de Keijser, van den Hout, & van den Bout, 2007; Bonanno, Neria, et al., 2007; Horowitz et al., 1997; Prigerson et al., 2009; Shear, Frank, Houck, & Reynolds, 2005).”
• Diagnosis and classification of disorders specifically associated with stress: proposals for ICD‐11 (2013, background): “Although most people report at least partial remission from the acute pain of grief by around 6 months following bereavement, those who continue experiencing severe grief reactions beyond this time frame are likely to have a significant impairment in their general functioning (25).”
• The Traumatic Grief Inventory Self-Report Version (TGI-SR): Introduction and Preliminary Psychometric Evaluation (2017, methodology): “…naming of the instrument, we sought to avoid the terms prolonged, complicated, or persistent, to avoid the suggestion that the instrument was exclusively designed to measure PGD put forth by Prigerson et al. (2009), CG put forth by Shear et al. (2011), and PCBD, now included in DSM-5 (APA, 2013).”
• Prevalence of prolonged grief disorder in adult bereavement: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2017, methodology): “Thus, although bereavement can be a highly stressful and significant life experience, most individuals have sufficient internal resources and external support to adequately cope with their grief and slowly readjust to a life without the deceased (Prigerson et al., 2009; Zisook and Shear, 2009).”
• Meaning reconstruction in the wake of loss: Evolution of a research program. (2016, positive): “…(Bryant et al., 2014), behavioural activation (Papa, Sewell, Garrison-Diehn, & Rum-mel, 2013) and cognitive restructuring (Boelen, de Keijser, van den Hout, & van den Bout, 2007) can alleviate impairments associated with complicated or prolonged disorders of grieving (Prigerson et al., 2009).”
• Place of death: correlations with quality of life of patients with cancer and predictors of bereaved caregivers' mental health. (2010, background): “The validated Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) scale assessed caregivers’ preloss grief and identified caregivers with intense, disabling grief 6 months after loss.(26)”
• A Brief Exposure-Based Intervention for Service Members with PTSD. (2011, background): “, 2009), and prolonged grief disorder (e.g., Neria & Litz, 2004; Prigerson et al., 2009).”
• COMPLICATED GRIEF AND RELATED BEREAVEMENT ISSUES FOR DSM-5 (2011, methodology): “Prigerson et al.’s Criterion A specifies that the disorder is not diagnosed until at least 6 months after the death occurs but says nothing about the duration of symptoms.”
• Identifying Highly Influential Nodes in the Complicated Grief Network (2016, positive): “…the plausible causal association between yearning for the deceased and grief-related approach behavior, this omission may have caused us to underestimate the centrality of yearning, a node that many grief researchers believe to be the core node of the CG syndrome (e.g., Prigerson et al., 2009).”