Lobos-Rivera, Marlon ElíasFlores-Monterrosa , Angélica NohemyTejada-Rodríguez, Jennifer CarolinaChacón-Andrade, Edgardo RenéCaycho-Rodríguez, TomásA Lee, ShermanD Valencia, PabloCarbajal-León,  CarlosW Vilca,  LindseyReyes-Bossio, MarioGallegos ,  Miguel2023-08-032023-08-032023-03-29https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13053/9122Thousands of people have died of COVID-19 in El Salvador. However, little is known about the mental health of those who are mourning the loss of a loved one to COVID-19. Therefore, the objective of this study was to examine the dysfunctional grief associated with COVID-19 death among Salvadoran adults. A sample of 435 Salvadorans (M = 29 years; SD = 8.75) who lost a family member or loved one to COVID-19 completed a digital survey using the Google Forms platform, during April 2 and 28, 2022. The results revealed that 35.1% reported clinically elevated symptoms of dysfunctional grief and among those mourners, and 25.1% also exhibited clinical levels of coronavirus anxiety. A binary logistic regression revealed that predictor variables such as COVID-19 anxiety (p = .003), depression (p = .021), and COVID-19 obsession (p = .032) were significant (χ2 = 84.31; Nagelkerke R2 = .242) and predict a 24.2% chance of dysfunctional bereavement.application/pdfenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Anxiety; COVID-19; Grief; Pandemic; Salvadorans.info:eu-repo/semantics/article10.1186/s41155-023-00250-63.03.00 -- Ciencias de la salud