Table 2.

Demographic characteristics of the study sample

Characteristics	Community samplea (N = 1732)
	N or mean	% or Std.
Age in years (mean and Std.)	47.3	13.1
Gender
Male	341	19.7%
Female	1388	80.3%
Race
White	1584	91.8%
Other	142	8.2%
Ethnicity
Hispanic	107	6.4%
Non-Hispanic	1557	93.6%
Participant relation to deceased service member
Parent	971	56.2%
Spouse	388	22.5%
Sibling	321	18.6%
Adult child	48	2.8%
Cause of death of deceased service member
Illness	100	5.8%
Combat related	842	49.0%
Accident	289	16.8%
Suicide	227	13.2%
Homicide/terrorist attack	130	7.6%
Unknown cause to participant	131	7.6%
Time since death in years (mean and Std.)	5.1	2.7
1–1.9 years	259	14.9%
2–3.9 years	432	24.9%
4–5.9 years	389	22.5%
6–9.9 years	582	33.6%
10–13.9 years	70	4.0%
Inventory of Complicated Grief total score (ICG, mean and Std.)	25.3	15.1
ICG (% ⩾ 30)	622	36.9%
Work and Social Adjustment Scale total score (WSAS, mean and Std.)	10.5	10.5
WSAS (% ⩾ 20)	325	19.0%

Percentages do not reflect missing data

^aSample with time since death more than 1 year