Risk of new-onset psychiatric sequelae of COVID-19 in the early and late post-acute phase.

Abstract

319 half of the originally randomized sample. However, almost half (43.8%) of the omitted participants simply did not receive the assessment needed to diagnose PGD, and another 38% were excluded because it was too soon (six months to one year since the loss) to receive a PGD diagnosis. Further, those assessed showed no differences in demographic or clinical characteristics from participants in the parent study. We endorse continued study of effective treatments for PGD. In the meantime, we believe that clinicians will benefit from knowing that CGT, a strongly validated intervention, can be appropriately re-labeled as prolonged grief disorder therapy (PGDT).