Traumatic grief in Kenyan bereaved parents following the Kyanguli School fire tragedy
Date
2004-02Author
Ndetei David M.
OTHIENO, CALEB J.
GAKINYA, BENSON
NDUMBU, ABLE
OMAR, ALI
KOKONYA, DONALD A.
ONGECHA, FRANCISCA A.
MUTISO, VICTORIA
OKETCH, VIOLET
MWANGI, JUDY
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Following the death of 67 boys in a fire tragedy at Kyanguli School in rural Kenya, the level of traumatic grief was assessed in a sample
of 164 parents and guardians whose sons died in the fire. The study was cross-sectional. Counseling services were offered to all the
bereaved parents soon after the tragedy. The subjects were interviewed using the Traumatic Grief Scale. A group of 92 parents/guardians
was interviewed 2 months after the event, while the other group of 72 was assessed 7 days later. The second group of bereaved parents
also completed the Self Rating Questionnaire (SRQ) and the Ndetei-Othieno-Kathuku scale (NOK). Over 90% of parents from both
groups had a yearning for the departed and found themselves searching for him quite often. There was no much difference in terms of
symptoms profile or intensity between the two groups. It appears that the counseling offered had minimal impact on the levels of distress.
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http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/10031http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1414665/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16633455
Citation
World Psychiatry 33::11 -- February 2004Publisher
1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, 2 African Medical Research Foundation
Description
Traumatic grief in Kenyan bereaved parents following
the Kyanguli School fire tragedy
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