NCT02797509

Preventing Chronic Depression and PTSD in Stroke Patients Admitted to the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Their Family Caregivers

Preventing Chronic Depression and PTSD in Patients With Stroke Admitted to the Neuroscience ICU and Their Family Caregivers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 15 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The current study has the following objectives: 1. To determine additional stroke patient (SP) and stroke caregiver (SC) factors including their perceptions of the stroke experience, hospitalization, and how they cope with its challenges; identify additional appropriate points to intervene (maladaptive coping styles, unrealistic expectations, inappropriate prioritization, misinformation about illness, and self care), and assess SP and SC preferences for the structure, mode of delivery (including potential for phone, video or a combination of these) and timing of an intervention. 2. To develop, \[using the preliminary data and information from aim 1\], and test the feasibility and acceptability (primary outcomes) of a skills-based intervention for preventing chronic depression, anxiety, PTSD and decreased QoL in dyads at risk.

Conditions

• Neurological Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Psychosocial Skills-Based Intervention	Subjects will attend group skills-based sessions once weekly (either in-person or via Vidyo) for 6 weeks and learn skills to cope and manage stroke-related stressors.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-01
• Primary completion: 2018-06-01
• Completion: 2018-08-01
• First posted: 2016-06-13
• Last updated: 2018-08-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States