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Baseline Resilience and Posttraumatic Symptoms in Dyads of Neurocritical Patients and Their Informal Caregivers: A Prospective Dyadic Analysis.
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- Post-Traumatic Stress Reactions in Caregivers of Children and Adolescents/Young Adults with Severe Diseases: A Systematic Review of Risk and Protective Factors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Risk and Protective Factors for PTSD in Caregivers of Adult Patients with Severe Medical Illnesses: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
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- Anxiety, depression and distress in family members of people who have experienced a critical care admission: a systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis.Journal of intensive care · 2025Article
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- Survivorship After Neurocritical Care: A Scoping Review of Outcomes Beyond Physical Status.Neurocritical care · 2024Article
- 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
- 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
- Partner effects on caregiver and care recipient depressed mood: heterogeneity across health condition and relationship type.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- Resilience in survivors of critical illness: A scoping review of the published literature in relation to definitions, prevalence, and relationship to clinical outcomes.Journal of the Intensive Care Society · 2022Article
- The Recovering Together Initiative: Integrating Psychosocial Care into ICUs.NEJM catalyst innovations in care delivery · 2022Article
- Mindfulness is inversely associated with psychological symptoms in long-term cardiac arrest survivors.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- Qualitative Study of Long-Term Cardiac Arrest Survivors' Challenges and Recommendations for Improving Survivorship.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2022Article
- Associations between posttraumatic stress symptoms and quality of life in cardiac arrest survivors and informal caregivers: A pilot survey study.Resuscitation plus · 2021Article
- 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
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Abstract
backgroundAdmission to a neuroscience intensive care unit (Neuro-ICU) is sudden and often traumatic for both patients and their informal caregivers. No prior studies have assessed prospectively risk and resiliency factors for chronic posttraumatic symptoms, as well as the potential interdependence between patients' and caregivers' symptoms over time.
objectiveTo analyze the impact of baseline resiliency factors on symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS) longitudinally in dyads of patients admitted to the Neuro-ICU and their primary family caregivers.
methodsWe recruited dyads (M = 108) of patients admitted to the Neuro-ICU (total N = 102) and their family caregivers (total N = 103). Dyads completed self-report assessments of PTS and resiliency factors (mindfulness and coping) at baseline in the Neuro-ICU. PTS was measured again at 3- and 6-month follow-up.
resultsClinically significant PTS symptoms were high at baseline in both patients (20%) and caregivers (16%) and remained high through 6 months (25% in patients; 14% in caregivers). Actor-partner interdependence modeling demonstrated that severity of PTS symptoms was predictive of PTS symptoms at subsequent time points (P < 0.001). High baseline mindfulness and coping predicted less severe PTS symptoms in patients and caregivers (P < 0.001) at all time points. Own degree of PTS symptoms at 3 months predicted worse PTS symptoms in one's partner at 6 months, for both patients and caregivers (P = 0.02).
conclusionsFindings highlight the need to prioritize assessment and treatment of PTS in Neuro-ICU patients and their informal caregivers through a dyadic approach.
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