Department of Women's and Children's Health, Childhood Cancer Research Unit, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Institute of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Psychooncology. 2014 Jun;23(6):658-64. doi: 10.1002/pon.3463. Epub 2013 Dec 18.
The aims of this study were to assess the prevalence of unresolved grief in bereaved young adult siblings and examine possible contributing factors.
The study was a Swedish population-based study of young adults who had lost a brother or sister to cancer, 2-9 years earlier. Of 240 eligible siblings, 174 (73%) completed a study-specific questionnaire. This study focused on whether the respondents had worked through their grief over the sibling's death and to what extent.
A majority (54%) of siblings stated that they had worked through their grief either 'not at all' or 'to some extent' at the time of investigation. In multiple regression analyses with unresolved grief as the dependent variable, 21% of the variance was explained by lack of social support and shorter time since loss.
The majority of bereaved young adults had not worked through their grief over the sibling's death. A small group of siblings reported that they had not worked through their grief at all, which may be an indicator of prolonged grief. Lack of social support and more recent loss were associated with not having worked through the grief over the sibling's death.
本研究旨在评估丧亲的年轻成年兄弟姐妹中未解决的悲伤的流行程度，并探讨可能的促成因素。
本研究是一项基于瑞典人群的研究，对象为 2-9 年前因癌症失去兄弟姐妹的年轻成年人。在 240 名符合条件的兄弟姐妹中，有 174 名（73%）完成了一项特定于研究的问卷。本研究重点关注受访者在调查时是否已经处理完对兄弟姐妹去世的悲痛，以及处理的程度如何。
大多数（54%）的兄弟姐妹表示，他们在调查时已经处理完对兄弟姐妹去世的悲痛，或者“根本没有”，或者“在一定程度上”。在以未解决的悲伤为因变量的多元回归分析中，21%的方差可以用缺乏社会支持和失去亲人后的时间较短来解释。
大多数丧亲的年轻成年人尚未处理完对兄弟姐妹去世的悲痛。一小部分兄弟姐妹表示他们根本没有处理完对兄弟姐妹去世的悲痛，这可能是长期悲伤的一个指标。缺乏社会支持和最近的丧失与未处理完对兄弟姐妹去世的悲痛有关。
