- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Family Support in Illness
- Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies
- Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
Aarhus University Hospital
2019-2024
Aarhus University
2017-2023
Region of Southern Denmark
2018
Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is now included as a diagnosis in international classification systems. Most research on PGD based Western populations, but first data from non-Western countries have recently become available. Little still known about country-related effects PGD's prevalence. Determining possible causes of variations the prevalence defined by DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 within between countries. We retrieved 24 studies, World Bank 2022 Risk Report. Negative binomial regressions were...
Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) is a new disorder in ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR. There need for self-report tools that operationalize PGD valid way. The aim of this study was to develop scale DSM-5-TR PGD, the Aarhus (A-PGDs), assess its validity. A-PGDs developed collaboratively with clinicians clients tested 349 bereaved adults (225 women). Two months post-loss survey included demographics, depression, PTSD, anxiety, PGD-symptoms. applied at follow-up three years post-loss. Test-retest performed...
Symptoms of prolonged grief disorder (PGD), depression, and posttraumatic stress (PTSD) often emerge concurrently in bereavement. The understanding temporal relationships between these syndromes a general bereaved population is limited. This study aims to investigate from 2 months postloss throughout the two first years bereavement.Data were derived registry-based cohort with 1,224 adult participants, who lost spouse or parent. Participants completed self-report measures PGD, PTSD at 2, 6,...
Abstract Background Gender has been proposed as a potentially important predictor of bereavement outcomes. The majority research in the field explored this issue by examining gender differences global grief severity. Findings have mixed. In study, we explore potential using network analysis. This approach examines how individual symptoms relate to and reinforce each other, so offers shed light on novel aspects expression across genders. Method Graphical lasso networks were constructed...
Background and objectives: According to the Dual Process Model (DPM), shifting between loss-oriented (LO) restoration-oriented (RO) coping is essential for adjustment following bereavement. Knowledge about how LO RO change over time such changes are related missing. With a prospective design this study investigated (1) relations levels of LO/RO selected outcomes (2) in across their adjustment.Methods: A sample 145 spousal bereaved individuals completed questionnaires measuring coping, grief...
Prolonged grief disorder is a debilitating condition, which affects approximately one out of ten who lose loved one. While existing meta-analyses have synthesized evidence regarding the overall effect psychological interventions for pathological across different types psychotherapy, it remains clinically relevant to explore whether specific are efficacious in treatment grief. The present study investigated efficacy group-based Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) adults had lost spouse or...
Variations in symptom development among breast cancer (BC) survivors are understudied. We examined: (Q1) Symptom trajectories of pain, fatigue, insomnia, breast, and arm symptoms BC survivors, (Q2) possible patterns or cluster-like associations between trajectory classification different symptoms, (Q3) characteristics assigned to high-burden trajectories.Participants were 968 women (mean age = 59.6 years) treated for early-stage followed across a three-year postoperative period. As part...
Abstract Purpose Some individuals struggle to adjust after the death of a close other. Constructing an adaptive narrative about loss is important adjustment but symptoms psychopathology may interfere with this process. We examined whether measured 2 months spouse or parent predicted narratives lower agency and communion themes as well more negative emotional tone self-event connections. Method Participants included 507 adults from Aarhus Bereavement Study who completed symptom measures at 2,...
Tabet af en ægtefælle medfører ofte smertelig sorgproces. Et væsentligt mindretal udvikler imidlertid symptomer på vedvarende sorglidelse (VSL). Dette kan være særligt hyppigt hos mennesker, der mister deres partner efter et langt og vanskeligt sygdomsforløb, som det er tilfældet i specialiseret palliativ pleje. Nærværende projekt undersøgte hyppigheden risikofaktorer for VSL efterladte partnere til patienter, op død modtog indsats fra Palliativt Team Fyn, Odense...
Digitalt leveret psykoterapi tilbydes i stigende grad som alternativ eller supplement til konventionel face-to-face-terapi behandlingen af en række psykiske og somatiske problemstillinger. Men hvad er konsekvenserne at flytte dele psykoterapien fra det fysiske rum med direkte klientkontakt over detdigitale rum? Digitale løsninger mindsker geografiske barrierer, muliggør hjælp personer begrænset mobilitet tilbyder fleksible, individualiserede behandlingsforløb. Omvendt digitalt måske...