Childhood Bereavement and Lower Stress Resilience in Late Adolescence.
Adolescent health; Childhood bereavement; Stress resilience
PURPOSE: Although childhood traumatic experiences are recognized as important determinants for adolescent psychiatric health in general, our objective was to explore the specific influence of childhood bereavement on the stress resilience development trajectory. METHODS: In this national register-based cohort study, we identified 407,639 men born in Sweden between 1973 and 1983, who underwent compulsory military enlistment examinations in late adolescence, including measures of psychological stress resilience. We defined exposure as loss of a first-degree family member in childhood, and estimated relative risk ratios (RRRs) for reduced (moderate or low), compared with high, stress resilience with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using multinomial logistic regression. RESULTS: Loss of a parent or sibling in childhood conferred a 49% increased risk of subsequent low stress resilience (RRR, 1.49, 95% CI, 1.41-1.57) and an 8% increased risk of moderate stress resilience (RRR, 1.08, 95% CI, 1.03-1.13) in late adolescence. There was also a graded increase in risk with increasing age at loss; teenagers were at higher risk for low resilience (RRR, 1.64, 95% CI, 1.52-1.77) than children aged 7-12 (RRR, 1.47, 95% CI, 1.34-1.61) and
Kennedy B; Chen R; Valdimarsdottir U; Montgomery S; Fang F; Fall K
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
2018
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.02.002" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.02.002</a>
The mother's risk of premature death after child loss across two centuries
attachment; child loss; demography; epidemiology; global health; human; mortality; psychological stress; sex difference
While the rare occurrence of child loss is accompanied by reduced life expectancy of parents in contemporary affluent populations, its impact in developing societies with high child mortality rates is unclear. We identified all parents in Iceland born 1800-1996 and compared the mortality rates of 47,711 parents who lost a child to those of their siblings (N = 126,342) who did not. The proportion of parents who experienced child loss decreased from 61.1% of those born 1800-1880 to 5.2% of those born after 1930. Child loss was consistently associated with increased rate of maternal, but not paternal, death before the age of 50 across all parent birth cohorts; the relative increase in maternal mortality rate ranged from 35% among mothers born 1800-1930 to 64% among mothers born after 1930. The loss of a child poses a threat to the survival of young mothers, even during periods of high infant mortality rates.
Valdimarsdottir U A; Lu D; Lund S H; Fall K; Fang F; Kristjansson T; Guethbjartsson D; Helgason A; Stefansson K
Elife
2019
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43476" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.7554/eLife.43476</a>