THE STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR COMPLICATED GRIEF: RELIABILITY, VALIDITY, AND EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Complicated grief (CG) has been recently included in the DSM-5, under the term "persistent complex bereavement disorder," as a condition requiring further study. To our knowledge, no psychometric data on any structured clinical interview for CG (SCI-CG) is available to date. In this manuscript, we introduce the SCI-CG, a 31-item "SCID-like" clinician-administered instrument to assess the presence of CG symptoms.

Methods

Participants were 281 treatment-seeking adults with CG (77.9% [n = 219] women, mean age = 52.4, standard deviation [SD] = 17.8) who were assessed with the SCI-CG and measures of depression, posttraumatic stress, anxiety, functional impairment.

Results

The SCI-CG exhibited satisfactory internal consistency (α = .78), good test-retest reliabil

SUBMITTER: Bui E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4565180 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature