{"id":9536,"date":"2021-04-30T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9536"},"modified":"2021-05-04T09:56:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T16:56:51","slug":"the-utility-of-the-pandemic-grief-scale-in-identifying-functional-impairment-from-covid-19-bereavement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/30\/the-utility-of-the-pandemic-grief-scale-in-identifying-functional-impairment-from-covid-19-bereavement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Utility of the Pandemic Grief Scale in Identifying Functional Impairment from COVID-19 Bereavement"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A cross-sectional survey of persons living in the US who lost a loved one to COVID-19 (N=1,065) validated the clinical utility of the 5-item Pandemic Grief Scale (PGS) for identifying mourners at risk of functional impairment and substance use. The authors found the PGS uniquely explained work and social difficulties attributed to a COVID-19 loss beyond contributing factors such as relationship with the decreased, post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety, and general grief reactions. Notably, the depressive and anxious symptoms assessed by the PGS did not demonstrate a decline over time since the loss.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lee et al. (Apr 2021). The Utility of the Pandemic Grief Scale in Identifying Functional Impairment from COVID-19 Bereavement. Journal of Palliative Medicine. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1089\/jpm.2021.0103\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1089\/jpm.2021.0103<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional survey of persons living in the US who lost a loved one to COVID-19 (N=1,065) validated the clinical utility of the 5-item Pandemic Grief Scale (PGS) for identifying mourners at risk of functional impairment and substance use. The authors found the PGS uniquely explained work and social difficulties attributed to a COVID-19 loss&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/30\/the-utility-of-the-pandemic-grief-scale-in-identifying-functional-impairment-from-covid-19-bereavement\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-9536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9537,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions\/9537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9536"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}