Does a therapeutic behavioural model improve post-aSAH fatigue in patients with good outcome but chronic fatigue after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage?
Encouraging acceptance and positive reframing may help alleviate chronic fatigue and emotional burden in patients recovering from aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
A therapeutic behavioural model aiming at furthering "Acceptance" and reducing passivity and "Avoidant" strategies may contribute to alleviate post-aSAH fatigue in good outcome patients. Given the chronic nature of post-aSAH fatigue, neurosurgeons may encourage patients to accept their new situation so that they can start a process of positive reframing instead of being trapped in a spiral of futile loss of energy and secondary increased emotional burden and frustration.
Ghafaji et al. (Mon,) studied this question.