Caregiver’s Burden of the Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury

Abstract

Insufficient attention towards caregivers has resulted in the emergence of psychological and health complaints. Affliction tethers more towards spouses as compared to parents and females as compared to males. The role of sibling care givers was found to be no different from parents or spouses. Marital relationships were found to suffer the most, with the caregiver leaving the traumatic brain injury (TBI) patient in his time of need. The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) and family assessment device (FAD) predicted a correlation between patient variables and caregiver discontent. The Blacks/Hispanics proved to cope better with stress and their caregiver roles as compared to Whites. Time elapsed since the injury was found to relieve distress, while the surprising severity of the injury has no recorded impact. Social support or rather a lack of it has been seen to have an impact on family homeostasis, which can further be deteriorated by substance abuse by the patient. The therapeutic intervention found to be most advantageous was the D'Zurilla and Nezu social problem-solving model. Current evidence suggests that emphasis should be given on proper education and encouragement of caregivers before discharge of TBI patients from hospital to reduce the incidence of stressors. Additionally, counseling sessions should be led by professionally led support groups for dealing with psychological symptoms and peer-led group to eliminate social insecurities of caregivers.

Parent-reported family impact in children and young adults with acquired brain injury in the outpatient rehabilitation setting

“…Multivariable regression: Bold scores: p< 0.05 significant variable in the multivariable regression analyses. # health/learning/behavioural problems cohort with pediatric patients with ABI as well and we found generally the same influence (12,(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29). This study confirmed that having nTBI results in higher family impact than having TBI.…”

“…Previous literature, merely pertaining to patients with ABI in hospital-based cohorts, studied patients' demographics, injury and family-related characteristics influencing family impact cause, severity, social economic status (based on educational level parents), and single-parent households (12,(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29). In our study, we examined whether these findings also hold for patients with an ABI in an outpatient rehabilitation cohort.…”

Understanding Health-Related Quality of Life of Caregivers of Civilians and Service Members/Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injury: Establishing the Reliability and Validity of PROMIS Social Health Measures

“…8 Caregivers also may experience problems with social HRQOL. [9][10][11][12][13] Caregivers report having limited assistance to help care for the person with the TBI, and they often feel that they must be constantly available for the person with TBI. 14 Caregiver social roles and activities (SRA; i.e., the interactions with friends, family, and in work and leisure contexts 15 ) can be profoundly impacted.…”

The Road Less Traveled: Integrating Neurotherapy with Holistic Neuropsychological Rehabilitation After Severe Head Injury

“…However, most of the studies exploring the effectiveness of EEG-NFT in TBI have taken EEG-NFT as a standalone technique of neuropsychological rehabilitation. It is widely agreed that a condition such as TBI results in disturbance in psychological and emotional functioning of the individual and also brings about significant distress and burnout in caregivers (Ahmed et al, 2017;Qadeer et al, 2017). There is a paucity of literature on the use of EEG-NFT in conjunction with holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation.…”