Table 3. Consultations and prescriptions during 6 months before inclusion and associationsa with grief trajectories, N = 1735.
Grief trajectory (reference: low grief)
LateOR (95% CI)Moderate/decreasingOR (95% CI)High/decreasingOR (95% CI)HighOR (95% CI)
GP consultation, anyb 1.4 (0.8 to 2.6)1.3 (0.9 to 1.8)1.6 (1.0 to 2.5)2.1 (1.0 to 4.5)
GP consultations, face-to-facec
   01111
   1–32.0 (1.1 to 3.5)1.0 (0.8 to 1.4)1.2 (0.8 to 1.7)1.3 (0.7 to 2.5)
   ≥42.0 (1.0 to 3.8)1.0 (0.7 to 1.4)1.5 (1.0 to 2.2)2.6 (1.3 to 5.0)
GP talk therapyc
   01111
   ≥11.5 (0.5 to 4.3)1.3 (0.6 to 2.6)1.7 (0.8 to 3.6)4.4 (1.9 to 10.0)
Psychologist sessionsc
   01111
   ≥12.0 (0.6 to 6.5)1.1 (0.5 to 2.4)1.6 (0.7 to 3.9)1.7 (0.5 to 6.6)
Prescribed medicationsd
   0 sedatives1111
   ≥1 sedatives1.2 (0.5 to 2.5)1.2 (0.7 to 1.9)1.4 (0.9 to 2.4)3.3 (1.8 to 6.0)
   0 antidepressants1111
   ≥1 antidepressants1.8 (0.9 to 3.5)0.9 (0.6 to 1.5)1.8 (1.1 to 2.9)2.6 (1.4 to 4.7)
  • aAny GP consultation includes face-to-face consultations, preventive consultations, GP talk therapy, phone consultations, email consultations, and home visits. bRegistration of contacts in the Danish National Health Service Register.25 cRegistration of redeemed prescriptions in the Danish Register of Medicinal Product Statistics.26 dMultinomial regression model adjusted for age, sex, personal relation to the patient, education, somatic illness in the family caregivers (Charlson Comorbidity Index24), and time from inclusion to the patient’s death.