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ArticleCognitive and behavioral practice2020

Building Resiliency in Dyads of Patients Admitted to the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit and Their Family Caregivers: Lessons Learned From William and Laura.

Emma E Meyers, Jessica McCurley, Ethan Lester, Michelle Jacobo, Jonathan Rosand, Ana-Maria Vranceanu

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Article in Cognitive and behavioral practice, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Emotional distress in neuro-ICU survivor-caregiver dyads: The recovering together randomized clinical trial.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2022
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  8. Factors Affecting Psychological Distress in Family Caregivers of Critically Ill Patients: A Qualitative Study.American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses · 2023
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  15. Can we prevent chronic posttraumatic stress disorder in caregivers of critical care patients?Journal of emergency and critical care medicine (Hong Kong, China) · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emma E MeyersMassachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Jessica McCurleyMassachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Ethan LesterMassachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Michelle JacoboHarvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Jonathan RosandMassachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Ana-Maria VranceanuMassachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

Integrating Mind Body Skills with Physical Activity to Improve Pain Outcomes in Patients with Heterogeneous Chronic Pain ConditionsR34AT009356 · NCCIH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI VRANCEANU, ANA-MARIA · 2017 to 2019
$1.2M
Resilient Together; Developing a resiliency skills program for dyads of patients with young onset dementia and their family caregiversR21NR017979 · NINR · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI VRANCEANU, ANA-MARIA · 2018 to 2019
$673k
NCCIH NIH HHS R34 AT009356NINR NIH HHS R21 NR017979
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sustaining a stroke, regardless of its severity, is a life-changing and often traumatizing event that can lead to chronic depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress in both survivors and their family caregivers. Psychosocial interventions for emotional distress after stroke are limited, have emphasized psychoeducation rather than skills, treatment of chronic emotional distress rather than prevention, and have targeted either the patient or their caregiver without accounting for the context of their interpersonal relationship. Here we discuss "Recovering Together," a novel program for dyads of patients with stroke and their family caregivers aimed at preventing chronic emotional distress by using cognitive behavioral principles to teach resiliency and interpersonal communication skills beginning during hospitalization in a neuroscience intensive care unit and continuing after discharge via telehealth. We illustrate the case of a pilot dyad enrolled in the Recovering Together program, to showcase how patients and caregivers can engage with and benefit from it. This dyad's experience suggests that Recovering Together is credible, feasible, and useful. The potential dyadic benefit of this intervention lies not only in providing the opportunity to optimize recovery and prevent long-term emotional distress, but also in creating the space to come together as a pair and make meaning from critical illness.

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anxietycaregiverdepressiondyadspatientresiliency programstroke

Identifiers

PMID32863700
PMCPMC7454168
OpenAlexW3011675709

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