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Do psychosocial interventions reduce depressive symptoms in stroke survivors, carers, and survivor-carer dyads?
Do psychosocial interventions reduce depressive symptoms in stroke survivors, carers, and survivor-carer dyads?
Psychosocial interventions are effective for reducing depressive symptoms in stroke survivors and their carers, though they may not significantly improve other domains like anxiety or quality of life.
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Supports psychosocial interventions for post-stroke depressive symptoms in survivors and carers; confirms efficacy for mood while leaving other outcomes open.
: Psychosocial interventions reduced depressive symptoms in stroke survivors and their carers. There was limited evidence that such interventions reduced anxiety symptoms, or improved quality of life and coping for stroke survivors and carers and no evidence that they improved self-efficacy, carer strain or carer satisfaction.
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Minshall et al. (2019) studied this question.
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