Clinical rehabilitation
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Clinical rehabilitation · Feb 2019
Randomized Controlled TrialSleepSure: a pilot randomized-controlled trial to assess the effects of eye masks and earplugs on the quality of sleep for patients in hospital.
To determine the short-term effects of supplying hospital inpatients with earplugs and eye masks, preparatory to a full-scale trial. ⋯ The intervention seems feasible, and effective, but trial eligibility rate and rate of recruitment into the study were limited.
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Clinical rehabilitation · Feb 2019
Partially dead, partially separated: establishing the mechanism between ambiguous loss and grief reaction among caregivers of patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness.
To trace the psychological mechanism underlying caregivers' emotional experience in prolonged disorders of consciousness, by examining the mediating role of boundary ambiguity in the relationship between ambiguous loss and grief. ⋯ Ambiguity concerning relational boundaries hinders caregivers' ongoing grief reaction and impedes their ability to integrate the loss. High frequency of visits, belief in the patient's psychological presence and difficulties in tolerating uncertainty are all clinical manifestations of caregivers' entangled experience.