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Factors related to cognitive reserve among caregivers of severe acquired brain injury.

Marcella Di CaraCaterina FormicaAntonino TodaroFrancesco CoralloKatia MicchiaLilla BonannoSilvia MarinoAnna Lisa LogiudiceRosanna PalmeriAnnalisa La FacePlacido BramantiViviana Lo Buono

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AdultMaleNeuropsychological Tests03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineCognitive ReservePhysiology (medical)Adaptation PsychologicalMedicineHumansCognitive skillEffects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performanceAcquired brain injuryCognitive reserveAgedFamily Healthbusiness.industryNeuropsychologyCognitionGeneral MedicineCaregiver burdenMiddle Agedmedicine.diseaseMental healthMental HealthNeurologyCaregivers030220 oncology & carcinogenesisBrain InjuriesSurgeryFemaleNeurology (clinical)business030217 neurology & neurosurgeryStress PsychologicalClinical psychology

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Stroke is one of the severe cause of motor and cognitive disabilities. These type of disabilities occurred a strong impact on whole family system. Caregiver burden may determine in relatives of patients with brain injury a decreasement of mental and physical health. The present study aims to better clarify the mechanism through which chronic stress influence caregivers' cognitive functioning and how the psychological and cognitive resources may represent as a predictive factor. Caregivers were submitted to neuropsychological tests that evaluated level of mental health ad level of burden. Our results showed a significant correlation between cognitive reserve and self-efficacy skills in health care of patients. Findings suggested that the caregiver burden and the level of general distress influenced the cognitive performance. An improvement of cognitive functions is associated with a reduction of self-efficacy skills, causing a caregiver burden improvement.

10.1016/j.jocn.2020.05.027https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32402612