@article{ref1,
title="The traumatic grief inventory self-report version (TGI-SR): introduction and preliminary psychometric evaluation",
journal="Journal of loss and trauma",
year="2017",
author="Boelen, Paul A. and Smid, Geert E.",
volume="22",
number="3",
pages="196-212",
abstract="Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder (PCBD) is a disorder of grief newly included in the &quot;Emerging Measures and Models&quot; section of the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) is a disorder with similar symptoms, likely to be included in the forthcoming 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11; World Health Organization, 1992). We developed the Traumatic Grief Inventory Self-Report version (TGI-SR), an 18-item measure, for the assessment of symptoms of PCBD and PGD in clinical and research settings. This study was an initial attempt to evaluate psychometric properties of the TGI-SR. To this end, the measure was administered to 327 patients of a mental health institute specialized in the treatment of psychopathology associated with loss and trauma. We found evidence that items of the TGI-SR (all 18 items, as well as the selection of 17 items representing PCBD criteria, and 11 items representing PGD criteria) loaded on one dimension. The TGI-SR demonstrated strong internal consistency. Elevated scores on the TGI-SR were significantly correlated with elevated scores on indices of psychopathology and lower quality of life, attesting to the concurrent validity. Receiver operation characteristic (ROC) analyses of the TGI-SR total score against provisional diagnoses of PCBD and PGD yielded a high area under the curve index suggesting that the TGI-SR total score can be used as an indicator for probable diagnoses of both PCBD and PGD. <br><br>RESULTS of this study provide initial evidence that PCBD and PGD symptoms may be readily and reliably measured using the TGI-SR.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1532-5024",
doi="10.1080/15325024.2017.1284488",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2017.1284488"
}