Despite suggestive evidence, there has been no adequately powered systematic study of the ways in which marital status influences health care consumption. Using a novel data set of 609016 newly diagnosed, seriously ill elderly individuals in the USA, and employing hierarchical linear models, we look at differences in the experience of hospitalization as a function of marital status. We find tha...

Approximately 7 million women in the United States become widows each year. It is not known how many women are pregnant at the time of their husband's death. This study describes the lived experience of widowhood during pregnancy as defined by 10 widows whose husbands were killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks or while they served in the US military during the Iraq and Afghanistan ...

Losing a life partner can be an overwhelming and traumatic event which forces the remaining spouse to cope not only with painful loss but also their new widowhood status. This study seeks establish coping strategies used by widows in Kisumu East Sub County, Kenya. A mixed method research design was study. The target population consisted of sampling technique purposive nature. get sample 50 Coun...

Abstract The immense stress of widowhood can lead to unhealthy coping strategies, including substance use. Relatively little is known, however, about widowhood’s effects on use among sexual minorities. Of the few studies examining LGB widowhood, none employ large, nationally representative samples or consider whether depend current partner status. We address these issues using a sample 2,258 re...