Trial reportResuscitation2025
Single-arm feasibility trial of a resilience intervention for cardiac arrest survivors and their family caregivers, Recovering Together after Cardiac Arrest.
Trial report in Resuscitation, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06517394 (Open Pilot Trial of a Dyadic Mind-body Program for Cardiac Arrest Survivors and Their Caregivers), which is not on this map. Cited by 2 papers.
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Open Pilot Trial of a Dyadic Mind-body Program for Cardiac Arrest Survivors and Their Caregivers: Recovering Together After Cardiac Arrest
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Characterizing stressors, coping strategies, and intervention preferences related to brain health among cardiac arrest survivors and their family caregivers.Aging & mental health · 2026Article
- "We can do this. That I learned.": A nonrandomized open pilot of Resilient Together for Dementia, a post-diagnosis dyadic intervention.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundEmotional distress is common in cardiac arrest (CA) survivors and their family caregivers and undermines long-term health and quality of life. To address this, we adapted a resilience intervention for survivors and their caregivers, entitled Recovering Together after Cardiac Arrest (RT-CA).
methodsWe conducted a single-arm feasibility trial of RT-CA between 09/2024-03/2025. We enrolled dyads of consecutively admitted CA survivors at Massachusetts General Hospital and their primary family caregivers. INCLUSION CRITERIA: adult English speakers, survivors must have ability to meaningfully participate (Short Form Mini Mental State Exam ≥5), one dyad member must have emotional distress (≥8 on either subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale [HADS]). PROCEDURE: Dyads participated in six weekly sessions with a clinical psychologist focused on building mindfulness and coping skills. Feasibility outcomes were feasibility of recruitment, assessments, adherence; acceptability outcomes were satisfaction, credibility, expectancy. Dyads completed pre- and post-test psychosocial measures and participated in exit interviews. We calculated frequencies and proportions of our outcomes, conducted exploratory paired t-tests to examine initial signals of changes in psychosocial measures, and performed explanatory-sequential mixed methods to integrate data sources.
resultsWe screened 12 dyads and enrolled 7. RT-CA exceeded most feasibility and acceptability benchmarks (>70 % on 7 of 8). In exploratory analyses, participants experienced preliminary, yet meaningful reductions in emotional distress (HADS anxiety survivors: mean [95 % CI] = -5.4 [-3.4, -7.5], p < 0.001; depression survivors = -5.1 [-2.2, -8], p < 0.01; anxiety caregivers = -3.1 [-0.8, -5.5], p < 0.05; depression caregivers = -3.5 [-8, 1.1], p > 0.05). Mixed-methods analysis indicated general concordance between quantitative and qualitative data.
conclusionResults support preliminary feasibility of RT-CA. Further testing in a randomized controlled trial is now required.
trial registrationClinicaltrials.gov #NCT06517394.
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