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Treatment of disturbed grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression in bereaved people after a traffic accident

Completed
Conditions
Persistant Complex Bereavement Disorder
complicated grief
10027946
Registration Number
NL-OMON47955
Lead Sponsor
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
146
Inclusion Criteria

First, second and third degree (adoption- or step) familymembers, and spouses
or friends of persons who died at a traffic accident
- * 18 years of age - meet the criteria for Persistant Complex Bereavement
Disorder (PCBD), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and/or Major Depressive
Disorder (MDD) based on questionnaire scores.

Exclusion Criteria

Participants will be excluded when they do not master the Dutch language and do
not have access to Internet.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>PCBD, depression and PTSD.<br /><br>PCBD: Traumatic Grief Inventory - Self Report (TGI - SR) (Boelen & Smid,<br /><br>2017b).<br /><br>PTSD: PTSS Checklist for DSM-5PCL-5 (Weathers, et.al., 2013)<br /><br>depression: depression subscale of the Depression Hospital Anxiety and<br /><br>Depression Scale (HADS-D; Zigmond & Snaith, 1983).</p><br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>Secondary study parameters are the possibly mediating/moderating effect of<br /><br>avoidance, maladaptive thoughts, anger, and accident-related stressors<br /><br>Avoidance - Depressive and Anxious Avoidance in Prolonged Grief Questionnaire<br /><br>(DAAGPQ; Boelen & van den Bout, 2010)<br /><br>Maladaptive thoughts - Grief Cognitions questionnaire (Boelen &<br /><br>Lensvelt-Mulders, 2005)<br /><br>Anger - anger subscale of the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2<br /><br>(STAXI-2; Lievaart, Franken, & Hovens, 2016)<br /><br>Accident-related stressors - Questions related to the accident (e.g.,<br /><br>experiencing single or multiple loss(es))</p><br>
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