Caring again: Support for parent caregivers of wounded, ill, and/or injured adult children veterans.

Background: Parents often provide care to adult children veterans with polytrauma, traumatic brain injury, and/or post-traumatic stress disorder.

Objective: This two-arm randomized clinical trial compared interventions to help parent caregivers improve their depression, anxiety, and burden and manage care by decreasing troubling and concerning behaviors.

Methods: Interventions were six one-hour structured one-on-one behavioral sessions (REACH) or six 30-minute prerecorded online educational webinars.

Text Messages to Support Caregivers in a Health Care System: Development and Pilot and National Rollout Evaluation.

Background: Although there are many interventions to support caregivers, SMS text messaging has not been used widely.

Objective: In this paper, we aimed to describe development of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Annie Stress Management SMS text messaging protocol for caregivers of veterans, its pilot test, and subsequent national rollout.

Methods: The stress management protocol was developed with text messages focusing on education, motivation, and stress-alleviating activities based on the Resources for Enhancing All Caregivers Health (REACH) VA caregiver intervention.