TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Encountering the body at the site of the suicide: a population-based survey in Sweden
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Omerov, Pernilla
A1  - Pettersén, Rossana
A1  - Titelman, David
A1  - Nyberg, Tommy
A1  - Steineck, Gunnar
A1  - Dyregrov, Atle
A1  - Nyberg, Ullakarin
SP  - 38
EP  - 47
VL  - 47
IS  - 1
N2  - Encountering the body of a child who died by suicide at the site of death is believed to be especially harmful for bereaved parents. We investigated the association between encountering the body at the site of the suicide and psychological distress in 666 suicide-bereaved parents. Parents who had encountered their child's body at the site of the suicide (n = 147) did not have a higher risk of nightmares (relative risk [RR] 0.95, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.67-1.35), intrusive memories (RR 0.97, 95% CI 0.84-1.13), avoidance of thoughts (RR 0.97, 95% CI 0.74-1.27), avoidance of places or things (RR 0.91, 95% CI 0.66-1.25), anxiety (RR 0.93, 95% CI 0.64-1.33), or depression (RR 0.94, 95% CI 0.63-1.42) compared with parents who had not encountered the body (n = 512). Our results suggest that losing a child by suicide is sufficiently disastrous by itself to elicit posttraumatic responses or psychiatric morbidity whether or not the parent has encountered the deceased child at the site of death.<br><br>© 2016 The American Association of Suicidology.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12260
ID  - ref1
ER  -