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Descriptor English: Prolonged Grief Disorder
Descriptor Spanish: Trastorno de Duelo Prolongado
Descriptor trastorno de duelo prolongado
Scope note: Reacciones de duelo intensas e incapacitantes que no remiten en los doce meses posteriores a la muerte de un ser querido. La base del diagnóstico es el anhelo o el extrañamiento persistentes del fallecido y la preocupación por la circunstancia de la muerte. (Traducción libre del original: Carmassi, Clinical Handbook of Bereavement and Grief Reactions, 2018).
Descriptor Portuguese: Transtorno do Luto Prolongado
Descriptor French: Trouble de deuil prolongé
Entry term(s): Disorder, Prolonged Grief
Grief Disorder, Prolonged
Prolonged Grief Disorders
Tree number(s): F01.470.142.555
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000090382
Scope note: Severe and disabling grief reactions that do not remit in the 12 months after the death of a significant other. The core of the diagnosis includes persistent yearning or missing the deceased, and preoccupation with the circumstance of the death. (Carmassi, Clinical Handbook of Bereavement and Grief Reactions, 2018)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 2022
History Note: 2022
DeCS ID: 59797
Unique ID: D000090382
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Date Established: 2022/01/01
Date of Entry: 2021/07/09
Revision Date: 2021/07/06
Prolonged Grief Disorder - Preferred
Concept UI M000746305
Scope note Severe and disabling grief reactions that do not remit in the 12 months after the death of a significant other. The core of the diagnosis includes persistent yearning or missing the deceased, and preoccupation with the circumstance of the death. (Carmassi, Clinical Handbook of Bereavement and Grief Reactions, 2018)
Preferred term Prolonged Grief Disorder
Entry term(s) Disorder, Prolonged Grief
Grief Disorder, Prolonged
Prolonged Grief Disorders



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