Researchers with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and Columbia University are conducting a joint study of grief, which focuses upon how surviving families deal with the loss of service members. The study’s two-pronged approach examines both how loved ones adapt to loss and activities that enhance well-being and general health. Family members who wish to participate can fill out an online questionnaire. To participate, visit health.mil and click on the story, “Study focus: Mending hearts broken by deaths of military loved ones.”
“Grief is an experience everybody has at some point in their lives,” said Dr. Stephen Gozza, a psychiatrist and retired Army colonel at USU’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress. “With this study, we hope to find ways to help survivors so that grief can find its rightful place in their lives, allowing room for joy, friendships, and fulfillment.”
