Prevalence matters: The influence of socio-demographic and loss-related variables on the development of prolonged grief disorder

Abstract

A meta-analysis is currently being conducted on pro-longed grief disorder (PGD) following unnatural losses.Preliminary results indicate a much higher prevalencethan the prevalence of PGD following natural losses. Inaddition, other loss-related variables may be associatedwith PGD prevalence. This symposium aims to illustratethe clinical implications of these‘prevalence matters’bypresenting two studies of large help-seeking samples ofbereaved individuals. The first study is based on datafrom 942 Western homicidally bereaved individuals. Thesecond study examined data from 2404 Arabic speakingbereaved individuals. The third study introduces a cultu-rally-sensitive online assessment measure of PGD forSwiss, Japanese and Chinese bereaved individuals.