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| The psychological symptoms of conjugal bereavement in elderly men over the first 13 months | | Author(s) | G J A Byrne, B Raphael |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 2, Special Issue, February 1997 |
| Pages | pp 241-251 |
| Keywords | Older men ; Widowers ; Bereavement ; Mental health [elderly] ; Depression ; Anxiety ; Loneliness ; Social surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | In this study of recently widowed older men in suburban Brisbane, Australia, it was hypothesised that conjugal bereavement would be characterised by a mixture of depression, anxiety and loneliness. Widowers aged 65 and over, were interviewed at 6 weeks, 6 months and 13 months after bereavement. A similarly aged group of married men were interviewed at similar intervals. Widowers reported more state anxiety and general psychological distress, but not more depression or loneliness, than matched married men over the first 13 months, post-bereavement. Widowers also reported more sleep disturbance and thoughts of death than married men. Level of state anxiety was strongly correlated with intensity of grief, but not with age, income, education, occupational prestige, cognitive function, duration of wife's final illness or expectedness of wife's death. The main hypothesis was not supported, as anxiety features were the predominant feature of recent conjugal bereavement among older men. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970807220 A |
| Classmark | BC: SPA: DW: D: ENR: ENP: DV: 3F: 7YA |
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