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This study explored the multiple mediating roles of sense of coherence (SOC) and coping styles in the relationship between caregiver burden and family adaptation among family caregivers of patients with stroke.
A cross-sectional study of 347 family caregivers of patients with stroke was conducted in China. Data were collected using a general information questionnaire, Zarit Caregiver Burden Interview and other questionnaires, and were analysed using descriptive, Pearson's correlation and path analyses.
SOC–positive and SOC–negative coping styles played a fully parallel chain-mediating role in the relationship between caregiver burden and family adaptation among family caregivers of patients with stroke.
Improving caregivers' SOC and encouraging them to adopt positive coping styles are crucial for reducing the negative impact of caregiver burden on family adaptation.
This study provides a new perspective for medical staff to improve the family adaptation of family caregivers of patients with stroke. Targeted interventions aimed at improving the SOC level and enhancing positive coping styles of the family caregivers of patients with stroke are necessary to improve their family adaptation.
Our study provides insights into the potential influencing mechanism of caregiver burden on family adaptation in family caregivers of patients with stroke, providing a new perspective for developing effective and precise intervention strategies to maintain better family adaptation.
This study adhered to the STROBE checklist.
Promoting SOC and focusing on the transformation of negative coping styles into positive ones may be crucial in developing nursing programmes for family adaptation.
No patient or public contribution.
To explore the effect of post-stroke fatigue (PSF) on post-stroke depression (PSD) and examine the mediating effects of fear of disease progression (FOP) and resilience between PSF and PSD.
A cross-sectional study.
A total of 315 stroke patients participated in the questionnaire survey between November 2022 and June 2023. Data were collected using the General Information Questionnaire, Fatigue Severity Scale, Fear of Disease Progression Questionnaire-Short Form, Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale-10 Item and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Depression Subscale. Data were analysed by descriptive analysis, Mann–Whitney U-test, Kruskal–Wallis H-test, Pearson or Spearman correlation, hierarchical regression analysis and mediation analysis.
PSF had a significant positive total effect on PSD (β = .354, 95% CI: .251, .454). Additionally, FOP and resilience played a partial parallel-mediating role in the relationship between PSF and PSD (β = .202, 95% CI: .140, .265), and the total indirect effect accounted for 57.06% of the total effect.
FOP and resilience parallelly mediated the effect of PSF on PSD, which may provide a novel perspective for healthcare professionals in preventing PSD. Targeted interventions aiming at reducing PSF, lowering FOP levels and enhancing resilience may be possible ways to alleviate PSD.
Interventions that tail to reducing PSF, lowering FOP levels and enhancing resilience may be considered as possible ways to alleviate PSD.
This study enriched the literature by exploring the effect of PSF on PSD and further examining the mediating effects of FOP and resilience between PSF and PSD. Findings emphasized the important effects of PSF, FOP and resilience on PSD.
The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) checklist for cross-sectional studies was used to guide reporting.
One tertiary hospital assisted participants recruitment.
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