Lessons from the 2004 Asian tsunami: Nature, prevalence and determinants of prolonged grief disorder among tsunami survivors in South Indian coastal villages

Anto P Rajkumar, Titus SP Mohan and Prathap Tharyan

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2015, vol. 61, issue 7, 645-652

Abstract: Background: Prolonged grief disorder (PGD), previously called complicated grief, is associated with significant distress and long-term disability, and it may complicate assessments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after traumatic events. Methods: In order to distinguish PGD from PTSD, we conducted a cross-sectional survey among tsunami survivors in five tsunami-affected coastal villages in India, 9 months after the Asian tsunami. Results: Prevalence of PGD among 643 tsunami survivors was 14.2% (95% confidence interval (CI): 11.5%–16.9%) and among the 351 bereaved survivors was 25.9% (95% CI: 21.3%–30.5%). Spousal bereavement, extensive damage to homes, fewer years of education, and absence of tsunami-related physical injury differentiated those with PGD, after adjusting for potential confounders ( p  

Keywords: Grief; post-traumatic stress disorder; disasters; prevalence; epidemiology; regression analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0020764015570713

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