Medical and Psychosocial Predictors of Caregiver Distress and Perceived Burden Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Abstract

Caregivers' preinjury functioning is more predictive of global distress, whereas the functioning of the person with injury is more predictive of injury-related burden. Caregivers' medical and psychiatric histories are important considerations when targeting interventions; global stress management strategies may be as important as assisting with injury-related issues.

Trauma- and distress-associated mental illness symptoms in close relatives of patients with severe traumatic brain injury and high-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage

“…The presence of negative coping strategies was strongly associated with several mental illness symptoms. This finding is corroborated by previous studies investigating coping styles in CR of patients with acquired brain injury [8,14,18,25,32]. Noble at al.…”

“…However, both investigated patient cohorts consisted predominantly of low-grade SAH patients whose course of disease and neurologic outcome differed significantly from high-grade SAH. Another study investigating caregiver distress in patients with moderate to severe TBI showed an association of stress symptoms with the caregiver's medical and psychiatric history and also with the use of escape-avoidance coping style [14]. Given these previous observations, the occurrence of significant mental illness symptoms in CR of patients with severe TBI and high-grade SAH is probable and relevant for the CR's quality of life (QoL).…”

‘It’s like a problem that doesn’t exist’: The emotional well-being of mothers caring for a child with brain injury

“…Unsurprisingly, given the circumstances of caring, psychological distress has also been documented [21][22][23][24][25] .…”

Effet de la détresse psychologique du proche aidant sur le fonctionnement exécutif de la personne ayant subi un traumatisme crânio-cérébral /

“…Elle n'a également pas d'impact sur l'évaluation de la situation d'aide par l'aidant (Hanks, Rapport, & Vanger, 2007 (Folkman & Lazarus, 1980;Lazarus & Folkman, 1984 (Knight et al, 1998;Sander et al, 2003). Une stratégie d'ajustement centrée sur les émotions est liée à l'augmentation de la détresse, de la dépression et de l'anxiété chez l'aidant (Finset & Anderson, 2000;Davis et al, 2009), en plus de nuire à l'adaptation de l'individu (Lazarus et Folkman, 1984). D'autre part, une stratégie d'ajustement centrée sur le problème est l'indicateur d'un ajustement efficace de la famille (Harris et al, 2001;Turner et al, 2007).…”