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Prolonged Grief in Young Bereaved Spouses and Partners

NCT00745784 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2011-08-18

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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

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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Sherry Schacter, PhD · Calvary Hospital, Bronx, NY

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
49 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2011-08-31
Completion
2011-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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