Mindfulness and coping are inversely related to psychiatric symptoms in patients and informal caregivers in the neuroscience ICU: implications for clinical care

KM Shaffer, E Riklin, JM Jacobs, J Rosand… - Critical care …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
… (mindfulness and coping) with symptoms of posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and depression
in patients recently admitted to the neuroscience ICU and their primary informal caregivers. …

Psychosocial resiliency is associated with lower emotional distress among dyads of patients and their informal caregivers in the neuroscience intensive care unit

KM Shaffer, E Riklin, JM Jacobs, J Rosand… - … of critical care, 2016 - Elsevier
… to the neuroscience intensive care unit (Neuro-ICU) is … to their recovery (ie, informal
caregivers). Estimates suggest … to an intensive care unit (ICU) and their informal caregivers have …

Resiliency is independently associated with greater quality of life among informal caregivers to neuroscience intensive care unit patients

EL Zale, TJ Heinhuis, T Tehan, D Salgueiro… - General hospital …, 2018 - Elsevier
caregivers may become overwhelmed by their responsibilities [7]. Caregivers of Neuroscience
ICU (Neuro-ICU) … to caregivers of terminal cancer patients [10], which occur regardless of …

… in longitudinal associations between intimate care, resiliency, and depression among informal caregivers of patients surviving the neuroscience intensive care unit

A Lin, AM Vranceanu, M Guanci, D Salgueiro… - Neurocritical Care, 2020 - Springer
… a neuro-ICU at a major urban academic medical center in Northeastern USA and their informal
caregivers. All study procedures were approved by our institutional review board. Patient–…

Early risk and resiliency factors predict chronic posttraumatic stress disorder in caregivers of patients admitted to a neuroscience ICU

KW Choi, KM Shaffer, EL Zale, CJ Funes… - Critical Care …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
informal caregivers in the Neuro-ICU is the first to prospectively track PTSD symptoms in ICU
caregivers … Without intervention, rates of PTSD in Neuro-ICU caregivers increased slightly …

Reported burden on informal caregivers of ICU survivors: a literature review

I van Beusekom, F Bakhshi-Raiez, NF de Keizer… - Critical Care, 2015 - Springer
Informal caregivers of ICU survivors suffer a substantial variety of burdens. Although the …
We suggest screening informal caregivers of ICU survivors for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and …

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

EG Lester, RA Mace, SM Bannon, PJ Popok… - Neurocritical care, 2021 - Springer
… of survivors admitted to the neuro-ICU and their informal caregivers (September 2019 to …
screening prior to approaching the survivor in the neuro-ICU. Second, a member of our research …

Preventing chronic emotional distress in stroke survivors and their informal caregivers

JL McCurley, CJ Funes, EL Zale, A Lin, M Jacobo… - Neurocritical care, 2019 - Springer
… with 24 patient–caregiver dyads within the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (… , their
caregivers, and medical and nursing staff within the neurosciences intensive care unit (Neuro-ICU). …

… intervention for the prevention of chronic emotional distress among survivor-caregiver dyads admitted to the neuroscience intensive care unit: a randomized clinical …

AM Vranceanu, S Bannon, R Mace, E Lester… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
… diaries to reduce the risk for depression and anxiety in ICU survivors but not in informal
caregivers and not for PTS. Unfortunately, only 3 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) with very small …

… resilience and depression symptoms predict trajectory of depression in dyads of patients and their informal caregivers following discharge from the Neuro-ICU

E Meyers, A Lin, E Lester, K Shaffer, J Rosand… - General Hospital …, 2020 - Elsevier
Neuro-ICU, … caregivers [21]. However, the long-term impact of these modifiable resilience
factors on psychological distress in dyads of Neuro-ICU patients and their informal caregivers