Substance Use Disorder Among Bereaved Individuals: A Systematic Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-4327e3308Keywords:
death and dying, drugs, grief, sufferingAbstract
Substance use disorder (SUD) is related to several psychosocial factors, such as grief. This study aimed to find an association of SUD among bereaved individuals based on a systematic review. The research was registered in the PROSPERO platform and the following databases were used: MEDLINE, PsycNET, LILACS, PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, and SciELO. The Rayyan software tool was used and this study was performed under the guidelines of the PRISMA protocol. In total, 17 articles were eligible, of which more than 88% showed an association between SUD and the grieving process and almost 60% associated grief and drug use with depression and anxiety. Alcohol was the most used substance. These findings may contribute to future studies on grief and substance use and underlie the elaboration of preventive actions for drug use.
Downloads
References
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5 (5th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596
Brent, D., Melhem, N., Donohoe, M. B., & Walker, M. (2009). The incidence course of depression in bereaved youth 21 months after the loss of a parent to suicide, accident, or sudden natural death. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 166(7), 786-794. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.08081244
Byrne, G. J., Raphael, B., & Arnold, E. (1999). Alcohol consumption and psychological distress in recently widowed older men. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 33(5), 740-747. https://doi.org/10.1080/j.1440-1614.1999.00614.x
Caparrós, B., & Masferrer, L. (2021). Coping strategies and complicated grief in a substance use disorder sample. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 624065. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.624065
Carr, D. (2020). Mental health of older widows and widowers: Which coping strategies are most protective? Aging & Mental Health, 24(2), 291-299. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2018.1531381
Cummings, S., Browner, W., & Hulley, S. (2013). Conceiving the research question and developing the study plan. In S. B. Hulley & S. R. Cummings (Eds.), Designing clinical research: An epidemiologic approach (4th ed., pp. 14-22). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Wolters Kluwer.
Drabwell, L., Eng, J., Stevenson, F., King, M., Osborn, D., & Pitman, A. (2020). Perceptions of the use of alcohol and drugs after sudden bereavement by unnatural causes: Analysis of online qualitative data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(3), 677. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030677
Gayman, M. D., Cislo, A. M., & Hansard, S. (2016). Time-clustered deaths and substance use disorder among young adults. Stress and Health, 32(1), 2-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.2569
Grimby, A., & Johansson, A. K. (2009). Factors related to alcohol and drug consumption in Swedish widows. The American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, 26(1), 8-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049909107310140
Hamdan, S., Melhem, N. M., Porta, G., Song, M. S., & Brent, D. A. (2013). Alcohol and substance abuse in parentally bereaved youth. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 74(8), 828-833. https://doi.org/10.4088/JCP.13m08391
Høeg, B. L., Appel, C. W., von Heymann-Horan, A. B., Frederiksen, K., Johansen, C., Bøge, P., Dencker, A., Dyregrov, A., Mathiesen, B. B., & Bidstrup, P. E. (2017). Maladaptive coping in adults who have experienced early parental loss and grief counseling. Journal of Health Psychology, 22(14), 1851-1861. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105316638550
Horton, E. G., Luna, N., & Malloy, T. (2018). Premature, untimely, and traumatic death of family members, and mental health disorders among inpatient substance users. Illness, Crisis & Loss, 26(2), 79-97. https://doi.org/10.1177/1054137316638078
Hung, Y. C., Chen, Y. H., Lee, M. C., & Yeh, C. J. (2021). Effect of spousal loss on depression in older adults: Impacts of time passing, living arrangement, and spouse's health status before death. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(24), 13032. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182413032
Inchausti, F., MacBeth, A., Hasson-Ohayon, I., & Dimaggio, G. (2020). Psychological intervention and COVID-19: What we know so far and what we can do. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 50(4), 243-250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10879-020-09460-w
Kaplow, J. B., Saunders, J., Angold, A., & Costello, E. J. (2010). Psychiatric symptoms in bereaved versus nonbereaved youth and young adults: A longitudinal epidemiological study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 49(11), 1145-1154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2010.08.004
Keyes, K. M., Pratt, C., Galea, S., McLaughlin, K. A., Koenen, K. C., & Shear, M. K. (2014). The burden of loss: Unexpected death of a loved one and psychiatric disorders across the life course in a national study. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 171(8), 864-871. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.13081132
Liew, H. P. (2011). Trajectories of alcohol consumption among the elderly widowed population: A semi-parametric, group-based modeling approach. Advances in Life Course Research, 16(3), 124-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2011.08.001
Lima, B. A. P. (2021). Luto: O uso abusivo de drogas e sua relação com o trabalho de luto [Grief: Drug abuse and its relationship with the mourning work]. Pretextos, 6(11), 236-253. http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/pretextos/article/view/25941
Lysell, H., Dahlin, M., Långström, N., Lichtenstein, P., & Runeson, B. (2016). Killing the mother of one's child: Psychiatric risk factors among male perpetrators and offspring health consequences. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 77(3), 342-347. https://doi.org/10.4088/JCP.14m09564
Masferrer, L., Garre-Olmo, J., & Caparrós, B. (2015). Is there any relationship between drug users’ bereavement and substance consumption? Heroin Addict Related Clinical Problems, 17(6), 23-30. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/156895393.pdf
Masferrer, L., Garre-Olmo, J., & Caparrós, B. (2017). Is complicated grief a risk factor for substance use? A comparison of substance-users and grievers. Addiction Research & Theory, 25(5), 361-367. https://doi.org/10.1080/.2017.1285912
Masferrer, L., Mancini, A. D., & Caparrós, B. (2020). Understanding the relationship between complicated grief symptoms and patterns of personality disorders in a substance users' sample: A network analysis approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 566785. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.566785
McDevitt-Murphy, M. E., Zakarian, R. J., Luciano, M. T., Olin, C. C., Mazzulo, N. N., & Neimeyer, R. A. (2021). Alcohol use and coping in a cross-sectional study of African American homicide survivors. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 20(1), 135-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2019.1598905
Ouzzani, M., Hammady, H., Fedorowicz, Z., & Elmagarmid, A. (2016). Rayyan-a web and mobile app for systematic reviews. Systematic Reviews, 5(1), 210. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0384-4
Page, M. J., McKenzie, J. E., Bossuyt, P. M., Boutron, I., Hoffmann, T. C., Mulrow, C. D., Shamseer, L., Tetzlaff, J. M., Akl, E. A., Brennan, S. E., Chou, R., Glanville, J., Grimshaw, J. M., Hróbjartsson, A., Lalu, M. M., Li, T., Loder, E. W., Mayo-Wilson, E., McDonald, S., ... Moher, D. (2022). A declaração PRISMA 2020: Diretriz atualizada para relatar revisões sistemáticas [The PRISMA 2020 statement: An updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews]. Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde, 31(2), e2022107. https://dx.doi.org/10.5123/s1679-49742022000200033
Parisi, A., Sharma, A., Howard, M. O., & Wilson, A. B. (2019). The relationship between substance misuse and complicated grief: A systematic review. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 103, 43-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2019.05.012
Pilling, J., Thege, B. K., Demetrovics, Z., & Kopp, M. S. (2012). Alcohol use in the first years of bereavement: A national representative survey. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 7, 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-7-3
Pitman, A., Stevenson, F., King, M., & Osborn, D. (2020). Self-reported patterns of use of alcohol and drugs after suicide bereavement and other sudden losses: A mixed methods study of 1,854 young bereaved adults in the UK. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1024. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01024
Sarvet, A. L., & Hasin, D. (2016). The natural history of substance use disorders. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 29(4), 250-257. https://doi.org/10.1097/YCO.0000000000000257
Seifter, A., Singh, S., McArdle, P. F., Ryan, K. A., Shuldiner, A. R., Mitchell, B. D., & Schäffer, A. A. (2014). Analysis of the bereavement effect after the death of a spouse in the Amish: A population-based retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 4(1), e003670. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003670
Sung, S. C., Dryman, M. T., Marks, E., Shear, M. K., Ghesquiere, A., Fava, M., & Simon, N. M. (2011). Complicated grief among individuals with major depression: Prevalence, comorbidity, and associated features. Journal of Affective Disorders, 134(1-3), 453-458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2011.05.017
Testino, G. (2022). Alcohol consumption, substance use disorder and COVID-19. European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, 26(6), 1787-1788. https://doi.org/10.26355/eurrev_202203_28319
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (2020). World Drug Report 2020. https://wdr.unodc.org/wdr2020/index2020.html
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (2021). World Drug Report 2021. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/wdr2021.html
Vance, J. C., Najman, J. M., Boyle, F. M., Embelton, G., Foster, W. J., & Thearle, M. J. (1994). Alcohol and drug usage in parents soon after stillbirth, neonatal death or SIDS. Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health, 30(3), 269-272. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.14401754.1994.tb00632.x
Whiting, P., Savović, J., Higgins, J. P., Caldwell, D. M., Reeves, B. C., Shea, B., Davies, P., Kleijnen, J., Churchill, R., & ROBIS Group. (2016). ROBIS: A new tool to assess risk of bias in systematic reviews was developed. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 69, 225-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.06.005
Young, I. T., Iglewicz, A., Glorioso, D., Lanouette, N., Seay, K., Ilapakurti, M., & Zisook, S. (2012). Suicide bereavement and complicated grief. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 14(2), 177-186. https://doi.org/10.31887/DCNS.2012.14.2/iyoung
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Regarding the availability of contents, Paideia adopts the Creative Commons License, CC-BY. With this licence anyone is allowed to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, as well as to remix, transform, and create from the material for any purpose, even commercial, giving the proper copyright credits to the journal, providing a link to the licence and indicating if changes have been made.
Partial reproduction of other publications
Quotations of more than 500 words, reproductions of one or more figures, tables or other illustrations must have written permission from the copyright holder of the original work for the reproduction specified in the Paidéia journal. Permission should be addressed to the author of the submitted manuscript. Secondarily obtained rights will not be transferred under any circumstance.
