Received: NovemAccepted: ApPublished: April 23, 2019Ĭopyright: © 2019 Bucki et al. PLoS ONE 14(4):Įditor: Michael McCarthy, Northern Arizona University, UNITED STATES In order to avoid dysfunctional relationships between family caregivers and patients, healthcare professionals need to pay special attention to this issue, especially in cases of aphasia and motor deficiencies.Ĭitation: Bucki B, Spitz E, Baumann M (2019) Emotional and social repercussions of stroke on patient-family caregiver dyads: Analysis of diverging attitudes and profiles of the differing dyads.

Communication disturbances, but also residual physical disabilities in stroke survivors, may affect the understanding of each other’s attitudes within dyads. Patients with motor deficiencies tended to underestimate the upheaval brought to their couple by stroke, whereas caregivers of language-impaired patients tended to underestimate their feelings of shame and demeaning. Family caregivers’ and patients’ attitudes towards the social repercussions of stroke were similar. Four items, selected by a panel of experts, were included in logistic regressions (i.e., demographic characteristics and patients’ impaired functions) to identify the differing dyadic profiles. The kappa concordance coefficient was used to determine the response convergence between patients and family caregivers. Eleven items, identified through a content analysis of interviews and after a qualitative process of generating questionnaire items, assessed the commonly experienced impact of stroke on the family, the social repercussions of stroke, and its emotional effects on the stroke survivors. Two researchers conducted separate face-to-face structured interviews with stroke survivors and their family caregivers. Focusing on the perceptions of the patients and the family caregivers living at home, two years after a stroke occurrence, the aims of the study were to analyse the concordance of attitudes towards the emotional and social repercussions of stroke and to determine the profiles of the differing dyads.

These impacts on the couple ‘patient/family caregiver’ are scarcely documented. For patients, the social and emotional repercussions of stroke include shame, personality changes, and upheavals experienced by the couple (i.e.

Stroke after effects personality