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Trial reportHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2022

Emotional distress in neuro-ICU survivor-caregiver dyads: The recovering together randomized clinical trial.

Sarah M Bannon, Talea Cornelius, Melissa V Gates, Ethan Lester, Ryan A Mace, Paula Popok, Eric A Macklin, Jonathan Rosand, Ana-Maria Vranceanu

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Trial report in Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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9 authors.

Sarah M BannonIntegrated Brain Health Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Talea CorneliusDepartment of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Melissa V GatesIntegrated Brain Health Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Ethan LesterIntegrated Brain Health Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Ryan A MaceIntegrated Brain Health Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Paula PopokIntegrated Brain Health Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Eric A MacklinBiostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Jonathan RosandHenry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Ana-Maria VranceanuIntegrated Brain Health Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.ORCID 0000-0003-3994-6488

Funding

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
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NINR NIH HHSNINR NIH HHS R21 NR017979
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveEmotional distress is common in both survivors and their informal caregivers following admission to a neuroscience intensive care unit (Neuro-ICU) and can negatively affect their individual recovery and quality of life. Neuro-ICU survivor-caregiver dyads can influence each other's emotional distress over time, but whether such influence emerges during dyadic treatment remains unknown. The present study involved secondary data analysis of Neuro-ICU dyads enrolled in a randomized clinical trial of a dyadic resiliency intervention, Recovering Together (RT), versus a health education attention placebo control to test dyadic similarities in emotional distress before and after treatment.

methodData were collected from 58 dyads following Neuro-ICU admission. Emotional distress (depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress) was assessed at baseline, 6 weeks (postintervention), and 12 weeks later. Nonindependence within survivor-caregiver dyads was examined (i.e., correlations between cross-sectional symptoms and changes in symptoms over time); mutual influence of emotional functioning over time (i.e., "partner effects") was examined using cross-lagged path analyses.

resultsThere were strong, positive cross-sectional correlations between survivor and caregiver distress at postintervention and follow-up and between changes in survivor and caregiver distress from baseline to postintervention and postintervention to follow-up. There were no partner effects.

conclusionsNeuro-ICU survivors and their informal caregivers show similar changes in emotional distress after treatment. These findings highlight the potential benefits of intervening on both survivor and caregiver distress following Neuro-ICU admission. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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CaregiversPsychological DistressAdaptation, PsychologicalCross-Sectional StudiesDepressionHumansIntensive Care UnitsQuality of LifeSurvivors

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PMID34498896
PMCPMC8904645

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