Effects of bereavement groups-a systematic review and meta-analysis
- This review summarizes the evidence of bereavement groups for symptoms of grief and depression. The literature search using Web of Science, EBSCO, PubMed, CINAHL, and MEDLINE yielded 14 studies (N = 1519) meeting the inclusion criteria (i.e., randomized-controlled trials, bereaved adults, bereavement group, validated measures). Overall, bereavement groups were marginally more effective than control groups post-treatment (gG = 0.33, gD = 0.22) but not at follow-up. Although tertiary interventions yielded larger effect sizes than secondary interventions, the difference was not significant. The results imply that the evidence for bereavement groups is weak, although the large heterogeneity of concepts for intervention and control groups limits the generalizability.
| Author details: | Ulrike MaaßORCiDGND, Laura HofmannORCiD, Julia Perlinger, Birgit WagnerORCiD |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2020.1772410 |
| ISSN: | 0748-1187 |
| ISSN: | 1091-7683 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32501773 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Death studies |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Place of publishing: | London |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/06/05 |
| Publication year: | 2020 |
| Release date: | 2023/02/01 |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Number of pages: | 11 |
| First page: | 708 |
| Last Page: | 718 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit | |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
