Mette Kjærgaard Nielsen1*
Kaj Sparle Christensen1,2
Mette Asbjoern Neergaard3,4
Pernille Envold Bidstrup5
Mai-Britt Guldin1- 1Department of Mental Health, Research Unit for General Practice, Aarhus, Denmark
- 2Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- 3Section for Specialist Palliative Care, Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
- 4Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- 5Psychological Aspects of Cancer, Danish Cancer Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
A Correction on
Grief trajectories and long-term health effects in bereaved relatives: a prospective, population-based cohort study with ten-year follow-up
by Nielsen, M. K., Sparle Christensen, K., Neergaard, M. A., Bidstrup, P. E., and Guldin, M.-B. (2025). Front. Public Health 13:1619730. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1619730
Author Henrik Schou Pedersen was erroneously included as an author in the published article. The correct author list reads: Mette Kjærgaard Nielsen, Kaj Sparle Christensen, Mette Asbjoern Neergaard, Pernille Envold Bidstrup, and Mai-Britt Guldin.
The Author Contributions Statement has been corrected to read:
“MKN: Investigation, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Project administration, Validation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Writing – original draft. KS: Writing – review & editing, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation, Methodology. MAN: Project administration, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing, Methodology, Formal analysis, Validation, Resources, Visualization, Investigation, Conceptualization, Supervision, Data curation. PB: Visualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Data curation, Validation, Methodology, Supervision, Investigation, Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing. M-BG: Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Methodology, Investigation, Visualization, Data curation, Conceptualization, Validation, Funding acquisition, Resources.”
The acknowledgments has been updated to acknowledge Henrik Schou Pedersen. The corrected Acknowledgments appears below:
“We wish to extend our profound gratitude to patients and relatives who participated in this study. Thanks to the staff at the Research Unit for General Practice, Aarhus, Denmark, in particular Henrik Schou Pedersen for data management and choice of statistical analyses, data manager Kaare Rud Flarup, and language editor Lone Niedziella. Furthermore, the authors thank statistician Anders Helles Carlsen, Aarhus University Hospital—Psychiatry, Denmark, for his work on grief trajectories.”
In the published article, there were errors in the notation of the odds ratios and hazard ratios.
In the Abstract, paragraph Results, the sentence previously read:
“The HGT was associated with higher use of mental health services [OR = 2.86 (95% CI 1.58; 5.19)], antidepressants [OR = 5.63 (95% CI 3.52; 9.01)], sedatives and anxiolytics [OR = 2.60 (95%CI 1.63; 4.14)], and excess mortality [OR = 1.88 (95% CI 1.1; 3.2)] compared to the LGT.”
The corrected sentence appears below:
“The HGT was associated with higher use of mental health services [OR = 2.86 (95% CI 1.58; 5.19)], antidepressants [OR = 5.63 (95% CI 3.52; 9.01)], sedatives and anxiolytics [OR = 2.60 (95% CI 1.63; 4.14)], and excess mortality [HR = 1.88 (95% CI 1.1; 3.2)] compared to the LGT.”
A correction has been made to the section Materials and methods, Statistical analysis, paragraph 5.
The sentence previously read:
“All estimates were presented with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) and ORs were considered statistically significant if 1 was not included in the CI.”
This has been corrected to read:
“All estimates were presented with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) and ratio estimates were considered statistically significant if 1 was not included in the CI.”
A correction has been made to the section Results, Mortality, paragraph 1.
The sentence previously read:
“In total, 186 (10.7%) died during 3–10 years after the patient's death, and the HGT was associated with mortality [OR = 1.88(95%CI: 1.11;3.21)] compared to the LGT (Table 3).”
This has been corrected to read:
“In total, 186 (10.7%) died during 3–10 years after the patient's death, and the HGT was associated with mortality [HR = 1.88 (95% CI: 1.11; 3.21)] compared to the LGT (Table 3).”
The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: grief, bereavement, relatives, general practice (GP), health care use, mortality, medication use, primary care
Citation: Nielsen MK, Sparle Christensen K, Neergaard MA, Bidstrup PE and Guldin M-B (2025) Correction: Grief trajectories and long-term health effects in bereaved relatives: a prospective, population-based cohort study with ten-year follow-up. Front. Public Health 13:1678380. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1678380
Received: 02 August 2025; Accepted: 16 October 2025;
Published: 30 October 2025.
Edited and reviewed by: Toni P. Miles, Carter Center, United States
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*Correspondence: Mette Kjærgaard Nielsen, bWV0dGUuay5uaWVsc2VuQHBoLmF1LmRr