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Economic outcomes have not yet been examined.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Aim:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To examine whether there are differences between same- and different-gender civil partners or spouses (hereafter \u2018partners\u2019) in the amount of unpaid care provided in the 3\u2009months pre-bereavement, and time taken off work and formal healthcare used in the 3\u2009months pre- or post-bereavement.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A population-based cross-sectional survey of bereaved partners from England\/Wales was conducted including three economic outcomes of interest: unpaid care, time taken off work, and formal healthcare used. We estimated formal healthcare costs using reference costs. We balanced groups on sociodemographic characteristics using propensity score weights and estimated average marginal difference in outcomes between groups using multivariable regressions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Setting\/participants:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>There were 542 complete cases for primary analysis (220 same-gender partners, 322 different-gender partners).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Same- and different-gender partners provided very high levels of unpaid care pre-bereavement (mean 122\u2009h\/week). Of those in paid employment, 85% missed some work pre- and post-bereavement. Same-gender partners had higher formal healthcare costs post-bereavement (+\u00a379, 95% CI: +2\u2009to\u2009+156). 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Future research should consider longer-term impacts of partner bereavement on health outcomes, explore whether care services are experienced as inclusive, and target ethnically diverse and gender diverse communities.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/02692163251355796","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,16]],"date-time":"2025-08-16T15:36:16Z","timestamp":1755358576000},"page":"977-986","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Unpaid care, time taken off work and healthcare costs before and after partner bereavement among same-gender and different-gender partners: A national population-based study"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"39","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1809-217X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Katherine","family":"Bristowe","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy &amp; Rehabilitation, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Palliative Care, King\u2019s College London, London, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Peter","family":"May","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy &amp; Rehabilitation, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Palliative Care, King\u2019s College London, London, UK"},{"name":"School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin,\u2009Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9742-1359","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alexandra","family":"Pitman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UCL Division of Psychiatry, UCL (University College London), London, UK"},{"name":"North London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jingjing","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Queen Mary University of London, London, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Liadh","family":"Timmins","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"King","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UCL Division of Psychiatry, UCL (University College London), London, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9253-4955","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Debbie","family":"Braybrook","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy &amp; Rehabilitation, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Palliative Care, King\u2019s College London, London, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3728-7389","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Steve","family":"Marshall","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy &amp; Rehabilitation, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Palliative Care, King\u2019s College London, London, UK"},{"name":"King\u2019s College Hospital, London, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Elizabeth","family":"Day","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Patient &amp; Public Involvement Member, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Paul","family":"Clift","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Patient &amp; Public Involvement Member, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ruth","family":"Rose","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Patient &amp; Public Involvement Member, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Katherine","family":"Johnson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"RMIT, Melbourne, VIC, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kathryn","family":"Almack","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9653-8689","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Richard","family":"Harding","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy &amp; Rehabilitation, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Palliative Care, King\u2019s College London, London, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_2","unstructured":"Office for National Statistics. 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