Deans' stroke musings: Stroke survivors’ and informal caregivers’ perceptions of depressive symptoms after stroke: an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study

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.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Stroke survivors’ and informal caregivers’ perceptions of depressive symptoms after stroke: an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study

Why are you ignoring the elephant in the room explaining post stroke depression? It's incredibly simple; NO 100% RECOVERY PROTOCOLS!

You create EXACT 100% recovery protocols and your survivor will be motivated to do the millions of reps needed because they are looking forward to 100% recovery. GET THERE!

There would be no need for this useless research and no survivor depression.

Stroke survivors’ and informal caregivers’ perceptions of depressive symptoms after stroke: an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study

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Abstract

Poststroke depression (PSD) is a frequent complication affecting approximately 30% of stroke survivors in the first 24 months after stroke. PSD has been correlated with increases in hospital lengths of stay, hospital costs, increased morbidity and mortality, risk for recurrent stroke at one year, decreased functional outcome, cognitive function, and quality of life post-stroke. Depression among family caregivers of stroke survivors may also negatively influence stroke recovery and stroke survivor quality of life. This explanatory sequential mixed-method study (n=32 dyads) sought to examine stroke disability, caregiver burden, rurality, prior history of depression, and depressive symptoms after stroke of stroke survivors and the perception of depressive symptoms after stroke from the perspectives of stroke survivors and their caregivers. Following quantitative data collection, 16 participants (n=9 stroke survivors, n=7 caregivers) completed 1:1 semi-structured interview. Study findings noted a p-value of 0.0397 which suggests there is a significant mean difference in Beck Depression Inventory-Fast Screen (BDI-FS) scores between stroke caregivers who are a spouse/significant other and stroke caregivers who are a family member. There is also robust evidence to suggest a significant mean difference in Beck Depression Inventory-Fast Screen (BDI-FS) score between stroke caregivers who have a prior history of depression and stroke caregivers who do not (p-value= 0.025). Thematic analysis of qualitative interviews corroborated these results with spouses and significant other caregivers and caregivers with prior history of depression noting increased depressive symptoms upon taking on stroke caregiver role.