Attachment Style Dimensions Can Affect Prolonged Grief Risk in Caregivers of Terminally Ill Patients With Cancer

Abstract

Female gender, high levels of depression, and preoccupation with relationships significantly predicted higher levels of prolonged grief risk.

Correlates of self‐rated attachment in patients with cancer and their caregivers: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

“…One of the 13 included studies did not report a correlational coefficient for the association but a written description of the association; however, once again, the authors kindly sent the output from the statistical analysis . Furthermore, the present study was able to update one previously reported study concerning the correlational coefficient of the relationship between avoidant attachment and anxious attachment and psychosocial variables, when the authors sent unpublished information on the correlational coefficient. Two studies investigating the association between caregiving styles and attachment were excluded from the quantitative analysis, because they used different caregiving style measures .…”

“…The included studies were conducted in the USA (four), Canada (four), Italy (two), Australia (one), France (one), and Turkey (one) ( Table 1). Seven of the included studies involved terminally ill patients with cancer [7,26,47,48,[50][51][52], whereas two studies [53,54] reported on a sample of terminally ill patients with the majority suffering from cancer and the remaining from Alzheimer's disease and strokes. The last four studies involved a combination of patients with cancer with a good prognosis (no metastasis) and patients suffering from advanced disease [15,[55][56][57].…”

Persistent complex bereavement disorder in caregivers of terminally ill patients undergoing supportive-expressive treatment: a pilot study

“…PCBD has been inserted in a special section of DSM-5 dedicated to conditions for further study (APA, 2013) . Horowitz has underlined the continuity between normal and pathological mourning on the basis of the intensity and duration of the experienced symptoms (Horowitz et al, 1993). Prigerson has focused attention on the persistence of a specific set of symptoms related to pain about the loss and to significant impairment of physical and mental health for at least six months (Lai et al, 2014a;Prigerson et al, 1995). There is a discrete overlap in the description of the two nomenclature, such as difficulty of adaptation, inability to move forward with lives, difficulty to fulfil responsibilities, somatic symptoms and disinterest in establishing new relationships (Horowitz et al, 1993(Horowitz et al, , 1997Lai et al, 2014a,b;Lombardo et al, 2012Lombardo et al, , 2014.…”

“…Few studies have tried to focus on the effects of concrete relationship relevant events such as relationship breakup (Kirkpatrick & Hazan, 1994) and interpersonal loss (Davila & Sargent, 2003;Trentini et al, 2015). In a recent study, it has been hypothesised that the emotional impact due to the grief could contribute to modify the stable aspects of personality as emotional and social abilities or attachment style (Hooper et al, 2012;Lai et al, 2007Lai et al, , 2014a.…”

Drug Brand Response and Its Impact on Compliance and Efficacy in Depression Patients

“…Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD) was used to assess the efficacy (Lai et al, 2015). HAMD contains 24 items, most of the items scores from 0 to 4 point in 5 levels as follows: absent (0 point), mild (1 point), moderate (2 point), severe (3 points), and very severe (4 point).…”