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

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Emotional 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.

Method

Data were collected from 58 dyads following Neuro-ICU admission. Emotional di

SUBMITTER: Bannon SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8904645 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature