Trial reportNeurocritical care2017
Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms Among Two Seriously Medically Ill Populations and Their Family Caregivers: A Comparison and Clinical Implications.
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22 citing papers in PubMed.
- Feasibility of a meditation intervention for stroke survivors and informal caregivers: a randomized controlled trial.BMC psychology · 2023Trial
- Can a Dyadic Resiliency Program Improve Quality of Life in Cognitively Intact Dyads of Neuro-ICU Survivors and Informal Caregivers? Results from a Pilot RCT.Neurocritical care · 2021Trial
- Suicidal ideation among medical and surgical inpatients at South Gondar Public Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia, 2023: a multicenter institution-based cross-sectional study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Health Programmes for Older Adults Who Are the Primary Family Caregivers for Their Partners: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Spiritual Distress, Hopelessness, and Depression in Palliative Care: Simultaneous Concept Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Depression Negatively Impacts Dyadic Quality of Life Following Neuro-ICU Admission: A Prospective Study of Cognitively Intact Patients and Caregivers.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Observational
- Common Data Elements for Disorders of Consciousness: Recommendations from the Working Group on Goals-of-Care and Family/Surrogate Decision-Maker Data.Neurocritical care · 2023Article
- Common Data Elements for Disorders of Consciousness: Recommendations from the Working Group on Goals-of-care and Family/Surrogate Decision-Maker Data.Research square · 2023Article
- The Recovering Together study protocol: A single-blind RCT to prevent chronic emotional distress in patient-cargiver dyads in the Neuro-ICU.Contemporary clinical trials · 2022Article
- The Recovering Together Initiative: Integrating Psychosocial Care into ICUs.NEJM catalyst innovations in care delivery · 2022Article
- Involvement of Specialist Palliative Care in a Stroke Unit in Austria-Challenges for Families and Stroke Teams.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Associations Between Gender, Resiliency Factors, and Anxiety in Neuro-ICU Caregivers: a Prospective Study.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2020Article
- The Impact of Resilience Factors and Anxiety During Hospital Admission on Longitudinal Anxiety Among Dyads of Neurocritical Care Patients Without Major Cognitive Impairment and Their Family Caregivers.Neurocritical care · 2020Article
- Building Resiliency in Dyads of Patients Admitted to the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit and Their Family Caregivers: Lessons Learned From William and Laura.Cognitive and behavioral practice · 2020Article
- Recovering together: building resiliency in dyads of stroke patients and their caregivers at risk for chronic emotional distress; a feasibility study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2020Article
- Diabetes in women and health-related quality of life in the whole family: a structural equation modeling.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2019Article
- Anxiety, Depression and Quality of Life Improve After One Month and Three Months of Home Parenteral Nutrition: A Pilot Study in a Canadian Population.Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology · 2019Article
- Review: Post-Intensive Care Syndrome: Unique Challenges in the Neurointensive Care Unit.Neurocritical care · 2019Review
- Preventing Chronic Emotional Distress in Stroke Survivors and Their Informal Caregivers.Neurocritical care · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundAnxiety and depression are common among patients with acute illness and their families. In oncology, psychosocial services addressing these symptoms are increasingly part of regular practice. Less is known about psychiatric distress among patients with acute neurological injury (ANI) and their family caregivers. To highlight this inequity in psychosocial intervention across medical services, we compared anxiety and depressive symptomatology shortly following diagnosis among patients facing incurable cancer or ANI and their family caregivers.
methodsRecruited from the same hospital, participants were patients within 8 weeks of receiving a diagnosis of incurable cancer (N = 350) and their family caregivers (N = 275; total patient/caregiver dyads = 275) and patients hospitalized in the Neuroscience ICU in the past 2 weeks (N = 81) and their family caregivers (N = 95; total dyads = 75). Participants reported anxiety and depressive symptoms using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Symptomatology was compared across illnesses using independent samples t-tests and multiple regressions controlling for differences in sample demographics.
resultsPatients with ANI (M = 6.90) reported greater anxiety symptoms than those with cancer (M = 5.31, p < .001), while caregivers for patients with ANI (M = 5.45) reported greater depressive symptoms than caregivers for patients with cancer (M = 3.81, p < .001). Results remained when controlling for demographic differences between samples.
conclusionThis is the first cross-comparison of psychiatric distress in patients and family caregivers affected by two distinct, life-threatening illnesses early in the illness trajectory. Findings support the priority of addressing psychiatric distress among patients with ANI and their family caregivers, as has been emphasized in the psychosocial oncology field.
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