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  • Clinical Psychology

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  • Complicated grief (CG) is a severe bereavement outcome impacting mental health.
  • Understanding CG's effect on cognitive functioning is crucial due to its link with depression.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate global and domain-specific cognitive functioning in individuals with CG.
  • To compare cognitive performance in a CG sample against a healthy control group.

Main Methods:

  • An exploratory, descriptive study design.
  • Utilized the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) to assess cognitive abilities.
  • Compared 335 individuals with CG to 250 control participants.

Main Results:

  • CG participants scored lower on total MoCA, visuospatial, and attention tasks.
  • No significant differences were found in executive function, language, memory, or orientation.
  • CG severity and duration minimally predicted cognitive scores; major depression was not a significant factor.

Conclusions:

  • Complicated grief is associated with deficits in global cognition, attention, and visuospatial abilities.
  • Cognitive functioning in CG warrants further investigation, particularly the visuospatial domain.
  • Age, sex, and education significantly influence cognitive performance across groups.