[ABSTRACT] In Primary Health Care the priority is to evaluate, adjust and progressively improve; in grief -at least in Spanish- this does not happen, and we only had subjective impressions of the effects of our interventions; it was evident that we needed a ?grief thermometer?. We searched through the scientific literature and found two questionnaires (in American English), which for their psychometric properties seemed suitable: the Grief Experience Inventory (GEI) by Catherine Sanders (1977) a