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Building Resiliency in Patients Admitted to the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit and Their Caregivers

NCT03694678 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 126

Last updated 2025-05-28

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Summary

The investigators will compare a dyadic intervention (Recovering Together) with an attention placebo educational control in dyads of patients with acute neurological illnesses and their caregivers at risk for chronic emotional distress. The primary aim of this study is to determine the feasibility, credibility, and satisfaction with Recovering Together. The second aim is to show proof of concept for sustained improvement in emotional distress, post traumatic stress (PTS), resiliency and interpersonal communication outcomes in patients and caregivers.

Conditions

  • Acute Brain Injuries

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Recovering Together

The intervention will teach resiliency skills (mindfulness, coping, interpersonal communication, etc) within 2 in person sessions at hospitalization and 4 live video sessions after discharge. Both patient and caregiver will participate in all sessions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD · Massachusetts General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-01-01
Primary Completion
2020-10-01
Completion
2020-10-11

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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