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The Grief Study is now on SoundCloud. You can go to soundcloud.com/griefstudy to stream or download our two-part discussion with two members of the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Bereavement Network, Carole McKeeman (Western Trust) and Anne Coyle (Southern … Continue reading →

In this study, we are testing the hypothesis that bereavement causes poor mental health. There are lots of confounding factors, but after accounting for these confounders, our hypothesis states that there is still a causal effect. Our study is trying … Continue reading →

Epidemiology, the science of understanding disease, can offer much guidance to those wishing to understand how different people experience different levels of emotional hardship. As such, the Grief Study has been trying to keep pace with recent developments in one … Continue reading →

Presentation at the Institute of Public Health in Ireland Open Conference on October 8th, 2013 Aideen Maguire presents preliminary findings from the Grief Study. Slides are available at: http://www.iphopenconference.com/sites/default/files/slides/s3t4.pdf

“ ‘I’m forgetting what he looks like’, the boy says huskily… ‘Every day more pieces are gone. I’ll try and remember something and I won’t be able. It just gets worse and worse. And I can’t stop it’ … then, … Continue reading →

Since the UK Government’s plans to publish a Care Bill were announced in last week’s Queen’s Speech, there has been more media attention than usual on the work of those who provide unpaid support to ill and disabled family members … Continue reading →

Great care must be taken when using prescription data as an indicator of disease.  When diagnosis information is not available prescription data can only be used as an indicator, not an indication.  Accurate definitions of the incidence and prevalence of … Continue reading →

I’m Mark McCann. I’m a Research Statistician at the Institute of Child Care Research, and the Principal Investigator for the Grief Study. I’ve worked in the ICCR since 2009, but before that I worked on my PhD in the Centre … Continue reading →

The Grief Study aims to estimate the prevalence of poor mental health outcomes among people who have suffered a bereavement. To do this, we will combine data from the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study, the Northern Ireland Mortality Study and the … Continue reading →