TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1991//
TI  - Post-traumatic stress symptoms in the first years of conjugal bereavement
JO  - Anxiety research
A1  - Schut, Henk A. W.
A1  - Keijser, Jos   de
A1  - van den Bout, Jan
A1  - Dijkhuis, Jos H.
SP  - 225
EP  - 234
VL  - 4
IS  - 3
N2  - Abstract Bereavement is generally regarded as one of the most stressful events one can encounter. Yet, bereavement research and the study of post-traumatic stress seem to be mainly developing along separate lines. Strictly speaking, post-traumatic stress disorder can only occur after encountering events outside the range of normal human experience. Thus, by definition bereavement does not seem to meet the criteria of PTSD. The question remains, however, whether this separate development and formal exclusion of bereavement can be justified by empirical research. To address this question, data are presented of 128 conjugally bereaved in a two-year longitudinal study. It appears that only 50% of the participants does not meet PTSD case-level at any time and 9% meets the criteria at all four data collection points. Interpretation of these findings are discussed in terms of appropriateness of the DSM-III-R criteria regarding PTSD.<p /> 
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SN  - 0891-7779
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08917779108248776
ID  - ref1
ER  -