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AAP Grand Rounds 14:17 (2005)
© 2005 American Academy of Pediatrics

Parental Mental Illness after the Death of a Child

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The authors from the Danish Epidemiology Science Center, University of Aarhus, and Bispebjerg Hospital, Denmark used national registries to identify 1.2 million citizens in Denmark born between 1952 and 1999 who had at least 1 child <18 years of age before 1999 to determine whether death of a child was associated with risk of hospital treatment of a mental disorder for the bereaved parent. Patients with a prior diagnosis of mental illness before the death of a child were excluded.

The primary outcome was hospital admission for first-time treatment of a mental illness. Diagnoses of particular interest included affective disorders, substance abuse, and schizophrenia and related disorders. The authors collected information on the year of hospitalization, parent age at the time of the child’s death, parental age when their first child was born, and the number of children in the family. Data on 19,124 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Susan L. Bratton, MD, MPH, FAAP

Pediatric Critical Care, Primary Children’s Medical Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT