1 40 1 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Citation List Month Backlog URL Address <a href="http://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa033160" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa033160</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hospitalization for mental illness among parents after the death of a child. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The New England Journal Of Medicine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2005 Subject The topic of the resource Child; Female; Humans; Male; Adult; Follow-Up Studies; Middle Aged; Death; Longitudinal Studies; Sex Factors; Life Change Events; Hospitals; Risk; Regression Analysis; Registries; Preschool; Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support; bereavement; infant; Comparative Study; Parents/psychology; Substance-Related Disorders/epidemiology; Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data; Mental Disorders/epidemiology; Mood Disorders/epidemiology; Psychiatric; Schizophrenia/epidemiology Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Li J; Laursen TM; Precht DH; Olsen J; Mortensen PB Description An account of the resource BACKGROUND: The loss of a child is considered one of the most stressful events in the life of a parent. We hypothesized that parental bereavement increases the risk of hospital admission for a psychiatric disorder, especially for affective disorders. METHODS: We studied a cohort of 1,082,503 persons identified from national registers in Denmark who were born between 1952 and 1999 and had at least one child under 18 years of age during the follow-up period, from 1970 to 1999. Parents who lost a child during follow-up were categorized as "bereaved" from the date of death of the child. RESULTS: As compared with parents who did not lose a child, parents who lost a child had an overall relative risk of a first psychiatric hospitalization for any disorder of 1.67 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.53 to 1.83). Bereaved mothers had a higher relative risk of being hospitalized for any psychiatric disorder than bereaved fathers (relative risks, 1.78 [95 percent confidence interval, 1.60 to 1.98] and 1.38 [95 percent confidence interval, 1.17 to 1.63], respectively; P value for interaction, 0.01). The relative risks of hospitalization specifically for affective disorders were 1.91 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.59 to 2.30) and 1.61 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.15 to 2.27) for bereaved mothers and fathers, respectively. Among mothers, the relative risk of being hospitalized for any psychiatric disorder was highest during the first year after the death of the child but remained significantly elevated five years or more after the death. CONCLUSIONS: The risk of psychiatric hospitalization was increased among parents, especially mothers, who lost a child. 2005 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa033160" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1056/NEJMoa033160</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s). Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article 2005 Adult Backlog Bereavement Child Comparative Study Death Female Follow-up Studies Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data Hospitals Humans Infant Journal Article Laursen TM Li J Life Change Events Longitudinal Studies Male Mental Disorders/epidemiology Middle Aged Mood Disorders/epidemiology Mortensen PB Non-U.S. Gov't Olsen J Parents/psychology Precht DH Preschool Psychiatric Registries Regression Analysis Research Support Risk Schizophrenia/epidemiology Sex Factors Substance-Related Disorders/epidemiology The New England Journal Of Medicine