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Design and Implementation of an fMRI Study Examining Thought Suppression in Young Women with, and At-risk, for Depression
Published on: May 19, 2015
Depressive mood and its risk factors, and persistent complex bereavement disorder among caregivers who received
Sheng-Yu Fan1, Hsiang-Ping Chen2, Jyh-Gang Hsieh3,4
1Institute of Gerontology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Abstract:
This aims of this longitudinal study were to identify the risk factors of and depressive mood in caregivers who received hospice care 6 months after their patients' death, and the cutoff pint of the bereavement risk index, as well as, the prevalence of persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD). There were 30.28 and 4.59% of caregivers with depressive mood and PCBD, respectively. The risk factors included resistance to the reality of patients' death, anger, self-blame and guilt, support networks, and coping. The cutoff points of total bereavement risk index and five-item short form were 10/11 and 9/10, respectively.
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