Dyadic coping and illness adjustment after stroke: A longitudinal prospective study.

To investigate associations between illness appraisals, dyadic coping, and illness adjustment in individuals with stroke and their healthy partners. This longitudinal observational study examined dyadic data in 17 couples (patient and partner) after stroke. Patients and partners completed self-report measures on event centrality of the stroke (appraisal) at 2 months ( Higher event centrality at Preliminary evidence suggests that patients and their healthy partners may endorse event centrality of the stroke differentially. Perceiving dyadic coping processes seems to be especially important to the healthy partners' illness adjustment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).