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Building Resiliency in Dyads of Patients With an ANI Admitted to the Neuro-ICU and Their Informal Caregivers
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
Summary
The purpose of the present investigation is to test the efficacy of a brief (6 sessions) dyadic (patient and caregiver together) intervention to prevent chronic emotional distress in at risk dyads admitted to a Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit with an acute brain injury. Through this study, we seek to solve the unmet need of preventing chronic emotional distress in Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (NICU) dyads through a feasible, acceptable and credible program, and ideally improve the recovery trajectory and dyads' overall quality of life.
Official title: Recovering Together: Building Resiliency in Dyads of Patients With an Acute Brain Injury Admitted to the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit and Their Informal Caregivers
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
388
Start Date
2021-12-10
Completion Date
2026-03
Last Updated
2025-10-21
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Recovering Together
In the skills-based intervention group, sessions focus on developing skills to cope and manage ANI related stressors. The intervention will be tailored consistent with AHA recommendations for ANI skills-based interventions and will include 2 general and 4 specific modules. It is anticipated that the intervention will have 6 sessions with 2 general sessions delivered, in person if possible, within the NICU, or through live video using Zoom if patients leave the hospital before sessions occur, and 4 tailored specific sessions (chosen from by the dyads from 6 available modules) to be delivered via live video using Zoom.
Recovering Together
Those in the educational program will receive general health information that mimics the skills-based intervention, but without teaching any of the resiliency or interpersonal communication skills that are hypothesized to be responsible for improvement in emotional distress. There will also be 6 sessions, 2 in-person dyadic visits in the NICU and 4 dyadic virtual visits following discharge. The educational program group will not have the opportunity to specify which modules they would like to take; the modules will be predetermined. All participants will receive medical care as determined by their medical team.
Locations (1)
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States