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The Dying, Not the Bereaved
Which sources back which section of this article, and what its evidence base looks like.
Which sources back which section
| Section | Sources behind it |
|---|---|
| What Happened | Maciejewski, Zhang, Block and Prigerson, JAMA 297(7) (2007); Prigerson and Maciejewski, British Journal of Psychiatry 193(6) (2008); Wortman and Silver, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 57(3) (1989); Galatzer-Levy and Bonanno, Social Science & Medicine 74(12) (2012); Stroebe, Schut and Boerner, Omega 74(4) (2017); the three letters at JAMA 297(24) (2007); the encyclopaedic articles on the five stages of grief, on Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and on the Cocoanut Grove fire |
| Timeline | Every dated source on this page except the letters: the 2007 study, the 2008 editorial, Wortman and Silver (1989), Shear and colleagues (2005), Bonanno and colleagues (2002), Galatzer-Levy and Bonanno (2012), Galatzer-Levy, Huang and Bonanno (2018), Stroebe, Schut and Boerner (2017), Stroebe and Schut (1999), Eisma (2023), Eisma, Janshen and Lenferink (2022), Lenferink and colleagues (2023), Boelen and Lenferink (2020), Holland and Neimeyer (2010), the World Health Organization’s own page, and the encyclopaedic articles on the five stages, on Kübler-Ross, on “Mourning and Melancholia” and on the Cocoanut Grove fire |
| The Argument | The 2007 study and the three letters replying to it; Prigerson and Maciejewski (2008); Holland and Neimeyer (2010); Bonanno and colleagues (2002) and Galatzer-Levy and Bonanno (2012) for the two resilience shares; Galatzer-Levy, Huang and Bonanno (2018) for the third figure; Stroebe, Schut and Boerner (2017), which carries the 1969, 1975 and 2005 passages with their page numbers; the encyclopaedic article on the five stages |
| What Others Add | Wortman and Silver (1989) and Stroebe and Schut (1999) for the alternatives; Stroebe, Schut and Boerner (2017) for the list of seven and its own complaint about it; the encyclopaedic article on the Cocoanut Grove fire for Lindemann and the two death tolls; Eisma (2023) for both sets of criteria and the three controversies; Eisma, Janshen and Lenferink (2022) for the overlap index; Lenferink and colleagues (2023) and Boelen and Lenferink (2020) for what the definitions do to caseness; Shear and colleagues (2005) for the trial; the World Health Organization’s own page for the dates |
| Conclusion | Nothing new is introduced here. It rests on the 2007 study, Wortman and Silver (1989), the two resilience papers of 2012 and 2018, Stroebe, Schut and Boerner (2017) for the 125,000 courses and the verdict, and Eisma (2023) with Eisma, Janshen and Lenferink (2022) for the open question about the two diagnostic definitions |
What the evidence base looks like
- 20Sources behind this article
- 5Sections, every one of them sourced
- 8Read in full, at their own page
- 11Read at the published abstract, which states the figures used here
| What the source is | How many | How they were read |
|---|---|---|
| Peer-reviewed papers and reviews in the bereavement literature | 14 | Three read in full at their open-access page; eleven read at the published abstract, which states every figure taken from them |
| Letters to a journal’s editor, disputing one of those papers | 1 | Bibliographic record only; the publisher’s full text could not be opened, so the two passages quoted reach the page through a review that carries them with page numbers |
| Encyclopaedic reference articles | 4 | All four read in full, at their own page; one of them is a stub and only a citation and a definition are taken from it |
| The institutional page of a body that publishes one of the two diagnostic classifications | 1 | Read in full, at its own page; the adoption and coming-into-effect dates are quoted from it directly |
Reliable
Reliable, but with an interestWorth believing and reliableWeak on both, and used with careHonest, but thin
Worth believing