Skip to main content

Table 1 Descriptive characteristics of participants.

From: Identifying bereaved subjects at risk of complicated grief: Predictive value of questionnaire items in a cohort study

 

All

ICG >42

BDI >9

Item C >4

 

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

All

276

100

54

19.6

98

35.5

39

14.1

Population

        

   Palliative sample

74

26.8

16

21.6

36

48.6

11

14.9

   Cpr sample

202

73.2

38

18.8

62

30.7

28

13.9

Gender

        

   Female

165

59.8

37

22.4

65

39.4

18

10.9

   Male

111

40.2

17

15.3

33

29.7

21

18.9

Age

        

   15-65

62

22.5

12

19.4

30

48.4

8

12.9

   66-69

65

23.6

13

20.0

20

30.8

7

10.8

   70-73

71

25.7

13

18.3

23

32.4

9

12.7

   74-83

78

28.3

16

20.5

25

32.1

15

19.2

  1. ICG-R = Inventory of Complicated Grief - Revised.
  2. BDI = Beck's Depression Inventory.
  3. Item C = "Even while my relative was dying, I felt a sense of purpose in my life".