Eligible studies had to evaluate whether the treatment of bereaved individuals reduced bereavement-related symptoms.
Specifically for our cohort, this means that our findings are unlikely to be explained by differential deregistration and loss to follow up of healthy individuals after bereavement.
By 1983, Jonathan Powell was keen to put the serial into production and offered the scripts to producer Michael Wearing who was immediately impressed by the scenes in the first episode, "Compassionate Leave", depicting Craven's reaction to Emma's death, describing them as "the most sustained evocation of individual grief in bereavement that I can remember".
We aimed to examine individual factors (gender, bereavement status) and contextual and death-specific factors (mode of death, severity of symptoms of PTSD, time since the loss, number of types of losses, funeral attendance and importance of religious/spiritual beliefs).
"In addition, we have found, in another study, that in the first few months after bereavement, individuals may not consistently take their regular preventive medication, such as cholesterol-lowering drugs or aspirin.
Similarly, a Scottish census-based study found a greater impact of bereavement in individuals with higher educational attainment (8).
Although 131 individuals suffered from family bereavement during their life of whom 70 during adolescence, this is still a small sample if 20 25 % of them are expected to develop mental health problems after family bereavement on the basis of previous research [ 1, 9– 12].
1 6 The bereavement-outcome is affected by factors related to the traumatic loss and to factors related to the bereaved individual.
Indicated interventions generally seem to lead to favourable results, both for bereaved individuals suffering from complicated grief and bereaved individuals suffering from bereavement-related depression [ 9].
