Construct: Grief symptoms
Description of Measure: The Texas Inventory of Grief – Revised or TRIG (Faschingbauer, 1981) assesses “normal” versus pathological grief symptoms (see ICG). It includes a “Present Feelings” index consisting of 13 first-person statements. Each item regards the client’s responses about various aspects of grief-related depression, such as acceptance of loss, crying and intrusive thoughts, and is scored on a 5-point scale. Possible responses are “Completely False”, “Mostly False”, “True and False”, “Mostly True”, and “Completely True.”
The TRIG’s psychometric properties have been examined across diverse age groups using samples consisting exclusively of older adults. A meta-analytic generalizability assessment found that the TRIG can be used reliably across cultures (Montano et al., 2016). It has been used to track grief symptoms over time in caregiving bereavement research (e.g., Holtslander & McMillan, 2011).
References
Faschingbauer, T. (1981). The Texas Inventory of Grief--Revised. Houston, TX: Honeycomb Publishing.
Holtslander, L. F., & McMillan, S. C. (2011). Depressive symptoms, grief, and complicated grief among family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer three months into bereavement. Oncology Nursing Forum, 38(1), 60-65. doi: 10.1188/11.ONF.60-65
Montano, S. A., Lewey, J. H., O’Toole, S. K., & Graves, D. (2016). Reliability generalization of the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief (TRIG). Journal of Death Studies, 40(4), 256-262. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2015.1129370