The impact of adolescent suicide on siblings and parents: a longitudinal follow-up.

The psychiatric sequelae of loss of a family member to suicide were evaluated in parents and siblings of adolescent suicide victims and controls, who were followed up to 3 years after the suicide. Siblings did not show an increased risk for the development of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or other conditions over the course of follow-up, despite showing a prolonged elevated level of grief symptomatology. Mothers showed an increased rate of recurrence of depression over follow-up, whereas fathers did not show an increased incidence of disorder compared to fathers of controls. The interrelationship of bereavement and depression for siblings, parents, and others exposed to suicide is discussed.

• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Suicide and Life-Threatening Behaviour

• Publication date

  1996-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/J.1943-278X.1996.TB00610.XPMID 8897664
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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