Table 1.

Prevalence of severe grief reactions after bereavement before age 18, after age 18, and in the previous year

		N1 (%)	Before age 18 N (%)	p	After age 18 N (%)	p	Previous year N (%)	p
Total		20,453	1,064 (5.2%)		5,300 (25.9%)		844 (4.1%)
Gender	Female	10,716 (52.4%)	615 (5.7%)		3,200 (29.9%)		528 (4.9%)
	Male	9,737 (47.6%)	449 (4.6%)	<.001	2,100 (21.6%)	<.001	316 (3.2%)	<.001
Age group	40–49	6,293 (30.8%)	391 (6.2%)		1,368 (21.7%)		219 (3.5%)
	50–59	5,882 (28.8%)	275 (4.7%)		1,519 (25.8%)		238 (4.0%)
	60–69	5,038 (24.6%)	227 (4.5%)		1,355 (26.9%)		211 (4.2%)
	70–79	2,561 (12.5%)	131 (5.1%)		806 (31.5%)		134 (5.2%)
	80–97	679 (3.3%)	40 (5.9%)	<.001	252 (37.1%)	<.001	42 (6.2%)	<.001
Living with spouse / partner	Yes	14,916 (77.1%)	751 (5.0%)		3,525 (23.6%)		509 (3.4%)
	No	4,430 (22.9%)	252 (5.7%)	.085	1,425 (32.2%)	<.001	267 (6.0%)	<.001
Ethnicity	Norwegian	18,729 (91.8%)	937 (5.0%)		4,816 (25.7%)		759 (4.1%)
	Sami/Kven	210 (1.0%)	19 (9.0%)		70 (33.3%)		5 (2.4%)
	Norwegian-Sami/Kven	618 (3.0%)	42 (6.8%)		161 (26.1%)		34 (5.5%)
	Other	847 (4.2%)	63 (7.4%)	<.001	232 (27.4%)	.061	43 (5.1%)	.080
Education	Primary/partly secondary education	4,550 (22.6%)	219 (4.8%)		1,429 (31.4%)		263 (5.8%)
	Upper secondary education	5,593 (27.8%)	320 (5.7%)		1,553 (27.8%)		259 (4.6%)
	Tertiary education, short	3,920 (19.5%)	183 (4.7%)		976 (24.9%)		136 (3.5%)
	Tertiary education, long	6,054 (30.1%)	330 (5.5%)	.060	1,235 (20.4%)	<.001	165 (2.7%)	<.001
Household income	Less than NOK 551,000	6,537 (33.2%)	377 (5.8%)		2,107 (32.2%)		371 (5.7%)
	NOK 551,000–1,000,000	8,165 (41.5%)	438 (5.4%)		1,966 (24.1%)		317 (3.9%)
	More than NOK 1,000,000	4,963 (25.2%)	210 (4.2%)	<.001	971 (19.6%)	<.001	110 (2.2%)	<.001

Note. NOK = Norwegian Krone (1 NOK ≈ 0.09 Euro). ¹ Ns that do not add up to 20,453 for a demographic variable are due to missing data.