Deans' stroke musings: Group cognitive behavioural therapy for stroke survivors with depression and their carers

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Group cognitive behavioural therapy for stroke survivors with depression and their carers

This secondary intervention is only needed because your doctor has completely failed at getting you 100% recovered. Put the blame where it belongs.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J77369&phrase=no&rec=135307&article_source=Rehab&international=0&international_language=&international_location=
Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 23(5) , Pgs. 358-365.

NARIC Accession Number: J77369. What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Ward, Susan K.; Turner, Alyna; Hambridge, John A.; Halpin, Sean A.; Valentine, Megan E.; Sweetaplle, Anne L.; White, Jennifer H.; Hackett, Maree L..
Publication Year: 2016.
Number of Pages: 8.
Abstract: Study evaluated the implementation and acceptability of Brainstorm, a group cognitive behavioral therapy program for stroke survivors with depression and their caregivers. Brainstorm is a closed group intervention consisting of up to 10 sessions of education, activity planning, problem solving, and thought monitoring and challenging. Participating stroke survivors and their caregivers complete assessment measures at baseline, posttreatment, and 1-month and 6-month follow-ups. A mixed-models for repeated measures data analysis was conducted with depression and anxiety scores for stroke survivors (Beck Depression Inventory-II and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) and the assessment of depression, anxiety and caregiver burden for caregivers. Acceptability was assessed by session attendance and written and open participant feedback upon completion of the program. Forty-eight community dwelling stroke survivors and 34 caregivers attended Brainstorm, with a median attendance of 88 percent of sessions. Follow-up assessments were completed by 77 percent (post-treatment), 46 percent (1-month), and 38 percent (6-month) of stroke survivors. Stroke survivors’ depression scores decreased from baseline to posttreatment; maintained at 1 month but not at 6 months. Anxiety scores decreased between baseline and 1-month follow-up. Caregiver burden, depression, and anxiety scores at 1-month and 6-month follow-ups were all reduced when compared with baseline. The Brainstorm group intervention for depression in stroke survivors appears to have been effectively implemented and is acceptable to stroke survivors and caregivers.
Descriptor Terms: ANXIETY DISORDERS, CAREGIVERS, COGNITIVE DISABILITIES, DEPRESSION, GROUP COUNSELING, PSYCHOTHERAPY, STROKE.

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Citation: Ward, Susan K., Turner, Alyna, Hambridge, John A., Halpin, Sean A., Valentine, Megan E., Sweetaplle, Anne L., White, Jennifer H., Hackett, Maree L.. (2016). Group cognitive behavioural therapy for stroke survivors with depression and their carers. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 23(5), Pgs. 358-365. Retrieved 1/14/2018, from REHABDATA database.