Depressive symptoms and mental health-related quality of life in adolescence and young adulthood after early parental death.

Little is known about long-term mental health in young adults who participate in ongoing grief counseling programs after early parental death in childhood, adolescence or young adulthood. The purpose of this study was to examine mental health in young adults according to early parental death and participation in grief counseling. : In a cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study, we included three samples of young adults age 18-41 years.

Risk of Use of Antidepressants Among Children and Young Adults Exposed to the Death of a Parent.

Background: Insight into how early parental death impact psychological well-being in children and young adults is important to developing suitable supportive care. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between early parental death before the child reaches age 30 years and subsequent use of antidepressants.

Methods: Our nationwide population-based cohort of persons born in Denmark in 1970-1990 with follow-up in the period 1997-2009 comprised 1,124,215 persons, of whom 71,380 were bereaved.

Early parental death and risk of hospitalization for affective disorder in adulthood.

Background: Early parental death is one of the most stressful childhood life events and may influence subsequent psychological health. We investigated the association between early parental loss and risk of hospitalization for an affective disorder in adulthood.

Methods: Our nationwide register-based cohort study comprises 1,225,660 people born in Denmark in 1970-1990, of whom 138,893 experienced the death of a parent before the age of 30 years.