@article{ref1,
title="Addressing psychological distress in people bereaved through suicide: from care to cure",
journal="Psychiatry research",
year="2021",
author="Scocco, Paolo and Idotta, Carlo and Totaro, Stefano and Preti, Antonio",
volume="300",
number="",
pages="e113869-e113869",
abstract="To illustrate the main characteristics of the request for and choice of support by a population accessing a dedicated service for people bereaved through suicide.The participants were divided first according to their reason for requesting support and based on their choice of intervention, which were &quot;caring&quot; services (improve knowledge about suicide prevention, postvention and grief support) and &quot;curing&quot; services (psychotherapy, chat groups, and meditation retreats).The study was based on 539 participants, chiefly middle-aged women. Most had lost kin and the time since suicide ranged from 1day to 45 years. The main reasons for contacting the service were: seeking help for symptoms (42%), connecting with other suicide survivors (19%); 15% reported not knowing what to ask for. Among the participants, 30% participated in the &quot;curing&quot; interventions; they were slightly older and had more grief symptoms, some above the threshold for complicated grief. These participants had more often survived a child or partner and more frequently sought contact with other survivors or were more likely to be seeking help for symptoms.The presence on the web of a project specialized in the care of suicide survivors can provide a resource bringing them closer to curing their emotional pain.  Keywords: Bereavement <p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-1781",
doi="10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113869",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113869"
}