Deans' stroke musings: Development of a novel positive psychology-based intervention for couples post-stroke

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.

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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.

Saturday, September 8, 2018

Development of a novel positive psychology-based intervention for couples post-stroke

So rather than prevent this secondary problem(depression) from occurring, by getting to 100% recovery. Let's use pop psychology to make survivors and caregivers feel better about not getting recovered. Something is wrong with this scenario.

Development of a novel positive psychology-based intervention for couples post-stroke

Rehabilitation Psychology , Volume 63(1) , Pgs. 43-54.

NARIC Accession Number: J79056. What's this?
ISSN: 0090-5550.
Author(s): Terrill, Alexandra L.; Reblin, Maija; MacKenzie, Justin J.; Cardell, Beth; Einerson, Jackie; Berg, Cynthia A.; Majersik, Jennifer J.; Richards, Lorie.
Publication Year: 2018.
Number of Pages: 12.
Abstract: Study developed and tested the feasibility of a dyadic positive psychology-based intervention (PPI) for 11 community-dwelling couples consisting of 1 partner who had a stroke at least 6 months ago and a cohabiting partner caregiver. One or both partner(s) had to report depressive symptoms. The PPI consisted of 1 brief face-to-face training session and an 8-week self-administered intervention in which participants were instructed to engage in at least 2 activities alone and 2 together each week. Two dyads were randomly assigned to a waitlist control to test feasibility of this process. Baseline, post-intervention, and 3-month follow-up assessments and post-program feedback were obtained. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze sample characteristics, recruitment and retention rates, adherence, key pre- and post-intervention outcomes, and satisfaction with the intervention. Ten of the 11 dyads completed the program. All participants engaged in activities for at least 6 of 8 weeks. Feedback data indicated participant satisfaction with the intervention, and key outcome measures demonstrated adequate variability. Findings suggest that the self-administered dyadic PPI is feasible for implementation with couples following stroke. The PPI represents a first step in a novel dyadic approach in this population. Recruitment, enrollment and attrition rates, and feedback will be used to inform a larger randomized trial.
Descriptor Terms: DEPRESSION, FEASIBILITY STUDIES, INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS, INTERVENTION, PSYCHOLOGY, REHABILITATION, SPOUSES, STROKE.

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Citation: Terrill, Alexandra L., Reblin, Maija, MacKenzie, Justin J., Cardell, Beth, Einerson, Jackie, Berg, Cynthia A., Majersik, Jennifer J., Richards, Lorie. (2018). Development of a novel positive psychology-based intervention for couples post-stroke. Rehabilitation Psychology , 63(1), Pgs. 43-54. Retrieved 9/8/2018, from REHABDATA database.