TY - JOUR T1 - Resilience protects against depression in people affected by stroke JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs DO - 10.1136/ebnurs-2020-103338 SP - ebnurs-2020-103338 AU - Melissa Diaz AU - Myriam Cadet AU - Cindy Etienne Y1 - 2020/08/28 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/early/2020/08/31/ebnurs-2020-103338.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Zhou X, Liu Z, Zhang W, et al. Resilience is associated with post-stroke depression in Chinese stroke survivors: a longitudinal study. J Affect Disord 2020.Future research needs to investigate the relationship between resilience and post-stroke depression, how it affects patient care and coping mechanisms during a crisis.In clinical practice, nurses need to better understand how psychological resilience contributes to emotional distress, stress and poststroke anxiety and depression and be prepared to assess a patient's resilience to facilitate early and effective management of poststroke depression.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) acknowledged that after a stroke patients might present with long-term or lifelong disabilities that can take weeks, months or even years to develop.1 One of the long-term conditions associated with stroke is depression.1 Patients may need treatment, therapy and care poststroke depression (PSD) … ER -