Table 3.

Sensitivity and Specificity of Individual Items of the Inventory of Complicated Grief–Revised (ICG-RC) for Children at 9 Months Following Parental Death

Item	Freqa	Sensb	Specc	AUCd	p
1. The death feels upsetting, overwhelming or devastating	10.6	0.31	0.98	0.93	<.001
2. I think about ….e so much that it can be hard for me to do the things I normally do	6.7	0.35	0.995	0.95	<.001
3. Memories of …. upset me	5.7	0.27	0.99	0.92	<.001
4. I feel that I cannot accept the death	7.6	0.42	0.995	0.90	<.001
5. I very much miss ….	51.4	1.00	0.69	0.91	<.001
6. I feel angry about the death	11.4	0.46	0.97	0.91	<.001
7. I feel that I cannot believe the death	14.3	0.62	0.97	0.91	<.001
8. I feel shocked over the death	12.6	0.69	0.99	0.93	<.001
9. Ever since the death, it is hard for me to trust people	7.6	0.27	0.98	0.84	<.001
10. Ever since the death, I feel like I don’t care about other people as much and I don’t feel as close to people I care about as I used to	2.9	0.15	0.995	0.75	.003
11. I avoid reminders of ….	2.9	0.04	0.98	0.67	.05
12. I avoid reminders that he/she is dead	6.7	0.23	0.98	0.75	.003
13. Sometimes people who lose a loved one feel that they cannot go back to normal life and be able to make new friends and do new activities. Do you feel that making new friends or doing new activities would be difficult for you?	4.8	0.19	0.995	0.86	<.001
14. I feel that life is empty or has no meaning without ….	3.8	0.15	0.995	0.79	.001
15. I hear the voice of….speak to me	1.9	0.05	0.99	0.66	.06
16. I feel like I have become numb (or has no feelings)f since the death	3.8	0.15	0.995	0.78	.001
17. I feel that it is unfair that I should live when he/she died	1.0	0.08	1.00	0.72	.01
18. I am bitter (or angry) over the death	4.9	0.15	0.98	0.90	<.001
19. I feel jealous of others who have not lost someone close	6.7	0.42	1.00	0.79	.001
20. I feel like the future has no meaning or purpose without ….	1.0	0.00	0.99	0.79	.001
21. I feel lonely ever since the death	14.3	0.42	0.96	0.82	<.001
22. It is difficult for me to imagine life being satisfying without ….	4.8	0.15	0.99	0.84	<.001
23. I feel that a part of myself died with ….	9.6	0.42	0.98	0.86	<.001
24. I feel that the death made me see the world differently	20.2	0.50	0.91	0.86	<.001
25. I don’t feel safe since the death	3.8	0.19	0.995	0.72	.01
26. I feel that I don’t have control over things since the death	5.8	0.35	1.00	0.85	<.001
27. I am jumpy or easily startled since the death	2.9	0.08	0.99	0.89	<.001
28. Since the death, my sleep has been disturbed	6.8	0.27	0.99	0.88	<.001

Note: Shaded items constitute the ICG-RC screen. Numbers in bold in the sensitivity column correspond to sens>0.5.

^aFreq=Frequency or % endorsing item at ≥ 4.

^bSensitivity.

^cSpecificity

^dArea under the curve (AUC).

^e“my parent” or the relationship lost.

^fWords between parentheses are for the interviewer to use for younger child.