Prolonged grief following the recent death of a daughter among mothers who experienced distal losses during the Khmer Rouge era Validity of the prolonged grief construct in Cambodia》.pdf

Psychiatry Research 219 (2014) 183–190 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Psychiatry Research journal homepage: /locate/psychres Prolonged grief following the recent death of a daughter among mothers who experienced distal losses during the Khmer Rouge era: Validity of the prolonged grief construct in Cambodia Nigel P. Field a, Judith Strasser b, Sopheap Taing b, Shoko Horiuchi a, Sotheara Chhim b, Wendy Packman a,n a Palo Alto University, 1791 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA b Transcultural Psychosocial Organization of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This study addressed the validity of the prolonged grief (PG) construct in a Cambodian context. Eighty Received 14 August 2013 mothers who lost a young adult daughter stemming from a crowd stampede incident during the annual Received in revised form water festival were interviewed at the six-month post-loss point along with a control group of similarly 3 March 2014 aged women who were not recently bereaved. Both groups were assessed for PG, PTSD, anxiety, and Accepted 11 May 2014 depression symptoms and well as for the number of distal losses experienced during the Khmer Rouge Available online 15 May 2014 (KR) regime – knowing that all the women were old enough to have lived through the KR regime. Keywords: Support for the