Ercole Vellone

TL;DR: An assessment of stroke patients and caregiver mutuality would allow dyadic approaches to data analysis and care that account for the nonindependence between the stroke patient and the caregiver.

TL;DR: The role of depression in relation to exercise capacity is reinforced and call for considering strategies to reduce depressive symptoms to improve outcomes of HF patients.

TL;DR: An empathetic and practical approach with caregivers that considers the patient–caregiver relationship may help caregivers to cope with the changes and restrictions that caregiving brings to their lives and to reduce their burden.

TL;DR: This study will contribute to understand if MI provided to patients and caregivers can improve self-care, and whether these findings can be useful to reduce the burden of the disease.

TL;DR: A new conceptual framework and the research protocol of a study designed to examine the quality of life in stroke survivor-caregiver dyads are described and predictors, mediators and moderators of stroke survivor and caregiver quality oflife from the pre-existing situation prior to the stroke, the new situation mediation poststroke and situation moderators are proposed.