Employment status and bereavement after parental suicide: a population representative cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine employment status among adults bereaved by parental suicide at the time of bereavement and 2 and 5 years after the loss and to explore the importance of the gender of the adult child and the deceased parent.

Design

Population-based register study.

Setting

Norwegian population-based registries linked using unique personal identifiers.

Participants

Norwegian residents aged 25-49 years in the period 2000-2014. Participants were divided into three groups: bereaved by parental suicide, bereaved by parental death of other causes and non-bereaved population controls.

Main outcome measures

ORs for the risk of non-employment at the time of bereavement and 2 and 5 years after the loss.

Results

Those bereaved by parental suicide had a h

SUBMITTER: Belanger SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9516068 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature