NCT00745784

Prolonged Grief in Young Bereaved Spouses and Partners

Lost to Cancer: Prolonged Grief in Young Bereaved Spouses and Partners

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 49 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the research is to learn more about the experience of grief in young bereaved spouses/partners. Recent research has shown that young bereaved spouses/partners experience grief uniquely from other age groups, but it is still unclear how certain factors affect the experience of grief. The investigators research team is interested in studying how the psychological factors of trauma, personality, and meaning of the loss affect grief reactions in young spouses/partners after the loss of a spouse to cancer.

Conditions

• Grief

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	in-person or telephone interview	Participants will be administered one battery of questionnaires that should take 50- 55 minutes, which may be broken down into two or more segments if necessary. They may choose to have these questionnaires administered to them in person at the hospital, in person at their home, or via telephone by a trained master's level research assistant.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-08-01
• Completion: 2011-08-01
• First posted: 2008-09-03
• Last updated: 2011-08-18

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States