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Accuracy of Dating Parent Deaths: Recollected Dates Compared with Death Certificate Dates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

B. M. Barraclough  and
Jane Bunch
B. M. Barraclough
Affiliation:
MRC Clinical Psychiatry Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, Sussex
Jane Bunch
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Social Administration, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO9 5NH
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Bereavement studies which have correlated mental illness and other pathology with the recent or past deaths of parents have relied on the subject's memory for ascertaining parent death dates. Data given by subjects can be wrong, because of faulty recollection or deliberate misinformation given to conceal something felt to be shameful, such as illegitimacy.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 123 , Issue 576 , November 1973 , pp. 573 - 574
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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1 Bunch, J., Barraclough, B. M., Nelson, B., and Sainsbury, P. (1971). Social Psychiatry 6, 193–9.Google Scholar
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