Promoting Resilience After Stroke in Dyads (ReStoreD): A Supplemental Analysis.

Objective: To examine preliminary effects of ReStoreD (Resilience after Stroke in Dyads) on resilience in couples coping with stroke-related challenges.

Design: Supplemental analysis of prospective pilot trial with pre-/post-assessments and 3-month follow-up.

Setting: Community.

Piloting GETCare: A Goal-Based Education and Skills Training Program for Caregivers.

Purpose: Many individuals with stroke require informal caregiver support. These caregivers are often unprepared and overwhelmed. This study assesses the feasibility and acceptability of GETCare, a remote Goal-based Education and skills Training program for Caregivers caring for an individual poststroke.

Intimate Relationships and Stroke: Piloting a Dyadic Intervention to Improve Depression.

Stroke affects not only the survivor but also their romantic partner. Post-stroke depression is common in both partners and can have significant negative consequences, yet few effective interventions are available. The purpose of this study was to pilot test a novel 8-week remotely administered dyadic intervention (ReStoreD) designed to help couples better cope with stroke-related changes and reduce depressive symptoms.

Linking AM-PAC Cognition to PROMIS Cognitive Function.

Objective: To link the Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care (AM-PAC) Applied Cognition to the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Cognitive Function, allowing for a common metric across scales.

Design: Cross-sectional survey study.

Setting: Outpatient rehabilitation clinics.

Psychometric properties of a brief self-reported health-related quality of life measure (HRQoL-IDD) for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Background: To encourage self-determination and address health disparities among persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, clinicians and researchers rely on self-reported measures like health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study evaluated the psychometric properties of a theory-driven self-reported HRQoL measure for adults requiring mild to moderate support related to intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Method: 224 volunteers completed 42 quality of life items developed with extensive input from persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, family members/caregivers, and providers.

Development of a novel positive psychology-based intervention for couples post-stroke.

Objective: Stroke provides challenges for survivors and partner caregivers. Stroke survivors and caregivers are interconnected in their emotional health, including depression, a common stroke sequelae. The purpose of this study was to develop and test the feasibility of a dyadic positive psychology-based intervention (PPI) for couples coping poststroke.

Reframing Health Promotion for People With Intellectual Disabilities.

The World Health Organization calls for health promotion to expand beyond the health care system by considering social determinants of health, engaging multiple levels, targeting policy change, and including social action. This qualitative study embraces this holistic stance as a means to address the health disparities and inequities experienced by people with intellectual disabilities (ID) by supporting the development of interventions that consider components of social justice along with embracing this population's potential and acknowledging influences of the context. A content analysis of the data is presented to illustrate how an occupational viewpoint can promote positive health and well-being of people with ID.

Measurement considerations for achieving equity in research inclusion for transition-aged youth with disabilities.

Measuring health for youth with intellectual disabilities (ID) is important for tracking progress toward national health goals. Measures of biophysical and fitness indicators are important but difficult to obtain in youth with ID, particularly in community settings. This paper describes obstacles encountered and strategies used to measure outcomes in a community-based study.

Construct validity of the functionally simulated technology task: an exploratory study.

This study explored the construct validity of the Functional Simulated Technology Task (FSTT), online bill-pay version. The FSTT was administered to matched groups: persons with cognitive impairment and persons with no known cognitive impairment, established through the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). Results indicated significance for construct validity by discriminating between the two groups.

Effecting healthy lifestyle changes in overweight and obese young adults with intellectual disability.

We evaluated a 12-week recreation center-based healthy lifestyle intervention for 30 obese home-dwelling young adults (YA) with intellectual disabilities. Three cohorts participated: YA only, YA and parents, and parents only. The YA cohorts received a nutrition/exercise intervention; parents focused on modeling healthy lifestyle behaviors.

"Still there is beauty": one man's resilient adaptation to stroke.

The study was designed to generate understanding of the phenomenon of resiliency following stroke, its role in supporting continuity of identity and ways in which occupational therapists might foster resiliency. The authors used a qualitative case study design to collect data during two face-to-face interviews. These were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using thematic analysis, narrative analysis, narrative smoothing, and content analysis using resiliency theory.