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| ID | Type | Description | Link |
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| 7134-08 | Other Grant/Funding Number | TrygFonden | |
| 2009-41-3506 | Other Identifier | Danish Data Protection Agency |
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| Name | Class |
|---|---|
| Statens Serum Institut | OTHER |
| Center for Crisis Psychology | UNKNOWN |
| Counselling and Research Center for Grieving Children, Teens and Young Adults | UNKNOWN |
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The purpose of this study is to examine how the death of a parent as a child, adolescent or young adult affects health and psychosocial wellbeing in adult life and to evaluate the impact in adult life of counseling to children, adolescents and young adults who lost a parent.
Early parental death experienced by 4% of the children in Western countries, is considered to be the most stressful and potentially harmful childhood life event and the health consequences may depend on the nature of the bereavement (e.g. relationship with bereaved), as well as by interpersonal (e.g. social support), intrapersonal (e.g. age and genetics), appraisal and coping factors. Studies have shown that children and adolescents have a greater risk of getting a psychiatric diagnose as well as psychological and social problems. Despite of the obvious consequences of losing a parent, there is a lack of systematic studies on the consequences later in life as well as studies that evaluate the counseling possibilities the children and adolescents are offered.
The study will investigate:
A nationwide register based cohort of people born in Denmark will be established. Long-term health effects and socioeconomic outcomes of experiencing parental death will be based on nationwide clinical and administrative registries. Exposure is defined as experiencing the death of a parent before age 30. The long-term psychosocial and behavioral impact of psychological intervention programmes will be based on a combination of questionnaire data and data from registries.
The part of the study using data from registries will be based on the nationwide cohort. The questionnaire based part of the study will include 3 groups selected from the nationwide cohort:
An invitation letter will be send to the 3 groups (5500 persons) by mail, and they will be asked to complete one questionnaire online.
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Hospitalization for affective disorder | Danish Psychiatric Central Register | Paticipants will be followed from age 15 until date of first hospitalization for an affective disorder, death, first emigration or end of follow up, an expected average of 12 years |
| Use of antidepressive medication | The Danish National Prescription Registry | Paticipants will be followed from age 20 until date of second independantly prescription of antidepressive medication, death, first emigration or end of follow up, an expected average of 9 years |
| Suicide | Danish Register of Causes of Death | Paticipants will be followed from age 18 until date of suicide, other causes of death, first emigration or end of follow up, an expected average of 15 years |
| Severe cardiovascular disease | The Danish National Patient Register | Paticipants will be followed from age 18 until date of first hospitalization for severe cardiovascular disease, death, first emigration or end of follow up, an expected average of 15 years |
| Education level | The Register-based System of Demographics and Social Statistics in Denmark | Participants will be followed from age 18 until highest attained educational level, death, first emigration or end of follow up, an average of 20 years |
| Employment | The Register-based System of Demographics and Social Statistics in Denmark | Employment status at age 30, death, first emigration or end of follow-up, an expected average of 8 years. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Relationship functioning | Quality of relationship and intimacy, Self-reported questionnaire | Participants will be answering the questionnaire once (not at a specifik age but between 18-40 years) |
| Support when losing a parent |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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Nationwide population-based cohort (Denmark)
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Christoffer Johansen, MD, PhD, DSc | Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society | Principal Investigator |
| Charlotte W Appel, MSc | Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society | Study Chair |
| Pernille E Bidstrup, PhD | Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society | Study Chair |
| Henrik Hjalgrim, PhD | Statens Serum Institut | Study Chair |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Department of Psychosocial Cancer Research, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society | Copenhagen | 2100 | Denmark |
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| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D063129 | Parental Death |
| D019964 | Mood Disorders |
| D003863 | Depression |
| D013405 | Suicide |
| D013406 | Suicide, Attempted |
| D002318 | Cardiovascular Diseases |
| ID | Term |
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| D003643 | Death |
| D010335 | Pathologic Processes |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
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| Children´s Welfare |
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| Quality of life | SF-36, Self-reported questionnaire | Participants will be answering the questionnaire once (not at a specifik age but between 18-40 years) |
| Complicated grief | Inventory of Complicated Grief/ Prolonged Grief Disorder (PG-13) and Centrality of Event Scale, Self-reported questionnaire | Participants will be answering the questionnaire once (not at a specifik age but between 18-40 years) |
| PTSD | Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ), Self-reported questionnaire | Participants will be answering the questionnaire once (not at a specifik age but between 18-40 years) |
| Existentiality | Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI, Self-reported questionnaire | Participants will be answering the questionnaire once (not at a specifik age but between 18-40 years) |
| Depressive symptoms | The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-C) | Participants will be answering the questionnaire once (not at a specifik age but between 18-40 years) |
Self-report items
| Participants will be answering the questionnaire once (not at a specifik age but between 18-40 years) |
| Lifestyle (smoking, alcohol, exercise) | Self-reported questionnaire | Participants will be answering the questionnaire once (not at a specifik age but between 18-40 years) |
| Coping | Brief cope, Self-reported questionnaire | Participants will be answering the questionnaire once (not at a specifik age but between 18-40 years) |
| D001526 | Behavioral Symptoms |
| D001519 | Behavior |
| D016728 | Self-Injurious Behavior |