Family Bereavement Program Follow-up

This current project is a federally funded NIMH (R01 MH49155) six year follow-up of 244 adolescents/young adults and their caregivers who participated in an experimental evaluation of a preventive intervention program for families who have experienced parental death (see Family Bereavement Program).

This project has four specific aims: 1. To assess effects of the Family Bereavement Program six years following participation, on adolescents/young adults of ages 14-22 and on their caregivers, 2. To assess factors that mediate program effects, 3. To assess whether program effects are moderated by baseline level of problems, gender or age, and 4. To assess cost-benefit of participation in the Family Bereavement Program.

Investigators:
Irwin Sandler, Principal Investigator
Tim S. Ayers, Sharlene Wolchik, Jenn-Yun Tein, Roger Millsap, Linda Luecken, Siek-Toon Khoo