Substance Use Disorder Among Bereaved Individuals: A Systematic Review

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-4327e3308

Keywords:

death and dying, drugs, grief, suffering

Abstract

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

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

  • André Luiz Monezi Andrade, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas

    Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Campinas-SP, Brazil

  • Adriana Scatena, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

    Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brazil

  • Beatriz de Oliveira Lavezzo, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí

    Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Itajaí-SC, Brazil

  • Richard Alecsander Reichert, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

    Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brazil

  • Denise De Micheli, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

    Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brazil

  • Fernanda Machado Lopes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

    Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis-SC, Brazil

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

Downloads

Published

2024-05-04

Issue

Section

Psychology of Health

How to Cite

Andrade, A. L. M., Scatena, A., Lavezzo, B. de O., Reichert, R. A., & Micheli, D. D. (2024). Substance Use Disorder Among Bereaved Individuals: A Systematic Review (F. M. Lopes , Trans.). Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto), 33, e3308. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-4327e3308