Grief among gay men associated with multiple losses from AIDS.

Few quantitative studies have examined the phenomena of multiple loss and cumulative grief occurring in gay men as a result of the AIDS epidemic. In this study, Sanders's Integrative Theory of Bereavement (1989) was used to examine the relationship between multiple loss and the intensity of grief experienced by gay men. The relationship of selected situational factors and internal characteristics of the bereaved to the numbers of losses and intensity of grief was also explored.