Research Publications

Balboni TA, Vanderwerker LC, Lathan C, Block SD, Peteet JR, Paulk E, Prigerson HG.  Religiousness and Spiritual Support among Advanced Cancer Patients and Associations with End-o-Life Treatment Preferences and Quality of Life. J Clinical Oncology 2007 Feb 10;25(5):555-60

Boelen P, Prigerson HG.  The influence of symptoms of Prolonged Grief Disorder, Depression, and Anxiety on quality of life after bereavement: a prospective study. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 2007 Dec;257(8):444-52

Buss MK, Vanderwerker LC, Inouye SK, Zhang B, Block SD, Prigerson HG. Associations between Caregiver-Perceived Delirium in Cancer Patients and Generalized Anxiety in their Caregivers J Palliative Medicine 2007 Oct;10(5):1083-92.

Cherlin EJ, Barry CL, Prigerson HG, Schulman-Green D, Johnson-Hurzeler R, Kasl SV, Bradley EH.  Bereavement Services for Family Caregivers: Who Uses, Why and Why Not? J Palliative Medicine  2007; 10: 148-158.

Fenix JB, Cherlin EJ, Prigerson HG, Johnson-Hurzeler R, Kasl SV, Bradley EH.  Religiousness and major depression among bereaved family caregivers: A 13-month follow-up study J Palliative Care 2006; 22:286-292 

Goldsmith B, Morrison RS, Vanderwerker LC, Prigerson HG.  Elevated Rates of Prolonged Grief Disorder in African Americans. Death Studies. 2008; 32; 4: 352-365

Hebert RS, Prigerson HG, Schulz R, Arnold RM.  Preparing caregivers for the death of a loved one: a theoretical framework and suggestions for future research. J Palliat Med. 2006;9:1164-71.

Holland JM, Neimeyer RA, Boelen PA, Prigerson HG.  The Underlying Structure of Grief: A Taxometric Investigation of Prolonged and Normal Reactions to Loss. J Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment (accepted)

Jacobsen J, Zhang B, Block SD, Maciejewski PK, Prigerson, HG. “Distinguishing Symptoms of Grief and Depression” Death Studies (under review) 
Jacobsen J, Zhang B, Maciejewski P, Block S, Prigerson HG.  Distinguishing Symptoms of Grief and Depression in a Cohort of Advanced Cancer Patients. Death Studies (accepted)

Jacobson, J, Vanderwerker LC, Block SD, Friedlander R, Maciejewski PK, Prigerson HG.  Depression and Demoralization as Distinct Syndromes: Preliminary Data from a Cohort of Advanced Cancer Patients.  Indian Journal of Palliative Care 2006; 12(1):8-15.

Johnson JG, First MB, Block SD, Vanderwerker LC, Bambauer K, Zhang B, Prigerson HG. “Stigmatization and Receptivity to Mental Health Services among Recently Bereaved Adults” Death Studies (2009 Dec)

Johnson JG, Vanderwerker LC, Bornstein RF, Zhang B, Prigerson HG.  Development and Validation of an Instrument for the Assessment of Dependency among Bereaved Persons. J of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 2006; 28:263-272.

Johnson JG, Zhang B, Prigerson HG.   “Investigation of a Developmental Model of Risk for Depression and Suicidality Following Spousal Bereavement” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 2008 Feb;38(1):1-12.

Johnson, JG, Zhang, B., Greer JA, & Prigerson HG.  Parental Control, Partner Dependency and Complicated Grief among Widowed Adults in the Community.  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2007; 195(1):26-30.

Kiely DK, Prigerson H, Mitchell SL. Health Care Proxy Grief Symptoms before the Death of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2008 Aug;16(8):664-73.

Kiely DK, Volicer L, Teno JM, Jones RN, Prigerson H, Mitchell SL. The Validity and Reliability of Scales for the Evaluation of End-of-Life Care in Advanced Dementia. Alzheimers Disease and Associated Disorders 2006; 20:176-181. 

Lannen P, Wolfe J, Prigerson H, Onelov E, Kreicbergs U. Unresolved Grief in a National Sample of Bereaved Parents: Impaired Mental and Physical Health 4 to 9 Years Later. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2008;26:5870-6.

Lichtenthal WG, Nilsson M, Zhang B, Trice ED, Kissane DW, Breitbart W, Prigerson HG. "Do Rates of Mental Disorders and Existential Distress among Advanced Stage Cancer Patients Increase as Death Approaches?" Psycho-Oncology  2008 Jun 3. [Epub ahead of print]

Maciejewski PK, Zhang B, Block SD, Prigerson HG.  An Empirical Examination of the State Theory of Grief Resolution.  JAMA (February 21 2007, Vol. 297, No. 7; 716-723) JAMA Report video, NPR, ABC, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Atlantic Monthly, “Y” in Time Magazine’s the Year in Medicine, Dec 3, 2007

Mack JW, Block SD, Nilsson M, Wright A, Trice E, Friedlander R, Paulk E, Prigerson HG.  Measuring therapeutic alliance between oncologists and patients with advanced cancer: The Human Connection Scale.  Cancer (accepted)
Mack JW, Nilsson M, Balboni TA, Friedlander RJ, Block SD, Trice E, Prigerson HG. “Peace, Equanimity, and Acceptance in the Cancer Experience (PEACE): Validation of a Scale to Assess Acceptance and Struggle with Terminal Illness” Cancer 2008 Jun 1;112(11):2509-17

Michalski MJ, Vanderwerker LC, Prigerson HG.  Assessing Grief and Bereavement: Observations from the Field.  Omega 2006/7; 54, (2): 91-106.
Mitchell SL, Kiely DK, Jones RN, Prigerson H, Volicer L, Teno JM. Advanced Dementia Research in the Nursing Home: The CASCADE Study. Alzheimers Disease and Associated Disorders 2006; 20:166-175.

Morina N, Rudari V, Bleichhardt G. Prigerson HG.  Prolonged grief disorder, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder among bereaved Kosovar civilian war survivors: A preliminary investigation. International Journal of Social Psychiatry (accepted)

Nilsson M, Maciejewski PK, Baohui Zhang, Wright AA, Trice ED, Muriel AC, Friedlander R, Fasciano K, Block SD, Prigerson HG. Mental Health, Treatment Preferences, Advance Care Planning, and Location and Quality of Death in Advanced Cancer Patients with Dependent Children. Cancer 15:399-409, 2009.
Ott CH, Lueger RJ, Sheryl T. Kelber ST, Prigerson HG.  Spousal Bereavement in Older Adults: Common, Resilient and Chronic Grief with Defining Characteristics. J Nervous and Mental 2007 Apr;195(4):332-341.

Pearce MJ, Singer JL, & Prigerson HG.  Religious Coping among Caregivers of Terminally Ill Cancer    Patients: Main Effects and Psychosocial Mediators. J Health Psychology2006; 11:743-59.

Phelps AC, MaciejewskiPK, Nilsson M, Balboni TA, Wright AA, Paulk ME, Trice E, Schrag D, Peteet JR, Block SD, Prigerson HG.  Coping with Cancer: Religious Coping Predicts Use of Intensive Life-Prolonging Care Near Death.  JAMA (rerevision)

Pirl W, Prigerson HG.  “Depression and Survival in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer” Psychosomatics 2008;49(3):218-24.

Prigerson HG, Horowitz MJ, Jacobs SC, Parkes CM, Aslan M, Raphael B, Marwit SJ, Wortman CB, Goodkin K, Neimeyer RA, Bonanno G, Block SD, Kissane D, Boelen P, Maercker A, Litz B, Johnson JG, First MB, Maciejewski PK. Field Trial of Consensus Criteria for Prolonged Grief Disorder Proposed for DSM-V PLoS Medicine (resubmitted)

Prigerson HG, Maciejewski PK, Pirl W, Temel J, Block SD, Rosenheck RA.  Declines in Mental Health Visits Following Cancer Diagnosis in a National Sample of Deceased Veterans.  Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (revise and resubmit)

Ray A, Block SD, Friedlander R, Zhang B, Maciejewski PK, Prigerson HG.  Peaceful Awareness in Advanced Cancer Patients.  J Palliative Medicine  2006; 9:1359-1368.

Sacco, KA, Head, CA, Vessicchio, JC, Easton, CJ, Prigerson, HG, George, TP.  Adverse Childhood Experiences, Smoking and Mental Illness in Adulthood:  A Preliminary Study.  Annals of Clinical Psychiatry 2007

Siegel MD, Hayes E, Vanderwerker LC, Loseth D, Prigerson HG. Psychiatric Illness in the Next-of-Kin of Patients who Die in the Intensive Care Unit. Critical Care Medicine  2008; 36 (6): 1722-8  **Article will have CME questions associated with it. Two articles from each issue to are highlighted fulfill this CME section. Accompanied by editorial.

Smith AK, McCarthy E, Paulk E, Balboni TA, Maciejewski P, Block SD, Prigerson HG. "Racial and Ethnic Differences in Advance Care Planning Among Patients with Cancer: Impact of Terminal Illness Acknowledgement, Religiousness, and Treatment Preferences" Journal of Clinical Oncology JCO Sep 1 2008: 4131–4137

Smith AK, Poppe A, Zhang B, Tulsky J,  Prigerson HG, Block SD.  Resident Approaches to Advance Care Planning on the Day of Hospital Admission. Archives Internal Medicine  2006;166:1597-1602.

Tomarken A, Holland J, Schachter S, Vanderwerker L, Zuckerman E, Nelson C, Coups E, Ramirez PM, Prigerson H.  Factors of complicated grief pre-death in caregivers of cancer patients. Psychooncology. 2007 Apr 18;

Vanderwerker L, Chen JH, Charpentier P, Paulk ME, Prigerson HG. Black-White Differences in Risks for Suicidality.  J Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 2007

Vanderwerker LC, Chen JH, Charpentier P, Paulk ME, Michalski M, Prigerson HG.  Differences in Risk Factors for Suicidality Between African-American and White Patients Vulnerable to Suicide.  Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 2007; 37(1): 1-9

Wright AA, Ray A, Zhang B, Mack JW, Mitchell SL, Nilsson ME, Trice ED, Block SD,  Maciejewski PK, Prigerson HG. Medical Care and Emotional Distress Associated with Advanced Cancer Patients' End-of-Life Discussions with their Physicians. JAMA 2008; 300: 1665-1673. selected for Faculty of 1000 Medicine (www.f1000medicine.com) a literature awareness service that identifies and evaluates the most important articles published in Medicine based on the recommendations of a Faculty of over 2000 peer-nominated leading researchers and clinicians. Identification and inclusion provides recognition from your peers of its scientific merit and the positive contribution it makes to the medical literature.

Zhang B, El-Jawahri A, Prigerson HG. Update on bereavement research: evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of complicated bereavement. J Palliat Med. 2006;9:1188-203.

Zhang B, Mitchell SL, Jones R, Prigerson HG. Depressive Symptom Trajectories and Associated Risks among Bereaved Alzheimer’s Disease Caregivers.  Am J Geriatric Psychiatry  2008; 16: 145-155.

Zhang B, Wright AA, Huskamp HA, Nilsson ME, Maciejewski, Earle C, Block SD, Maciejewski PK, Prigerson HG.  Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations.  Archives of Internal Medicine (March 9, 2009)

Zivin-Bambauer K, Prigerson HG.  Stigma Receptivity Scale as a predictor of mental health services use among bereaved elderly.  J Nervous and Mental Disease 2006;194(2):139-41.

Zivin-Bambauer K, Zhang B, Maciejewski PK, Sahay N, Pirl WF, Block SD, Prigerson HG. Mutuality and Specificity of Mental Disorders in Advanced Cancer Patients and Caregivers. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2006;41(10):819-24 [Epub ahead of print]