Encountering the Body at the Site of the Suicide: A Population-Based Survey in Sweden.

Omerov, PernillaErsta Sköndal högskola,Institutionen för vårdvetenskap,Karolinska institutet (author)

Encountering the Body at the Site of the Suicide : A Population-Based Survey in Sweden.

Encountering the body of a child who died by suicide at the site of death is believed to be especially harmful for bereaved parents. We investigated the association between encountering the body at the site of the suicide and psychological distress in 666 suicide-bereaved parents. Parents who had encountered their child's body at the site of the suicide (n = 147) did not have a higher risk of nightmares (relative risk [RR] 0.95, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.67-1.35), intrusive memories (RR 0.97, 95% CI 0.84-1.13), avoidance of thoughts (RR 0.97, 95% CI 0.74-1.27), avoidance of places or things (RR 0.91, 95% CI 0.66-1.25), anxiety (RR 0.93, 95% CI 0.64-1.33), or depression (RR 0.94, 95% CI 0.63-1.42) compared with parents who had not encountered the body (n = 512). Our results suggest that losing a child by suicide is sufficiently disastrous by itself to elicit posttraumatic responses or psychiatric morbidity whether or not the parent has encountered the deceased child at the site of death.

In:Journal of Suicide and Life-threatening Behaviour: Wiley47:1, s. 38-470363-02341943-278X

By the author/editor: Omerov, Pernilla; Pettersen, Rossa ...; Titelman, David; Nyberg, Tommy; Steineck, Gunnar; Dyregrov, Atle; show more...; Nyberg, Ullakari ...; show less...

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