Dysfunctional Grief Related to COVID-19 in Latin America
Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez 1 * , Pablo D. Valencia 2 , Miguel Gallegos 3 4 5 , Claudio Intimayta-Escalante 6 , Michael White 7
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1 Universidad Privada del Norte, PERU2 Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO3 Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, CHILE4 Pontificia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, BRAZIL5 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, ARGENTINA6 Sociedad Científica de San Fernando (SCSF), Lima, PERU7 Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Educación, Universidad Peruana Unión, Lima, PERU* Corresponding Author

Abstract

The characteristics associated with COVID-19-related dysfunctional grief suggest that we are most likely facing a “dysfunctional grief pandemic” due to COVID-19. Thus this preliminary study reports frequencies of dysfunctional grief in ten Latin American countries that varied between 7.3% in Brazil and 14.6% in El Salvador. This highlights a greater need for Latin American countries to work together to improve the accessibility of treatment for dysfunctional grief.

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Article Type: Letter to Editor

ELECTRON J GEN MED, Volume 19, Issue 2, April 2022, Article No: em344

https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/11543

Publication date: 13 Jan 2022

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