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The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between depressive symptoms in 6 months after stroke and the quality of life (QOL), clinical and socio-demographical characteristics, functional status, and severity of stroke.
Ninety consecutive stroke patients who attended the neurology outpatient clinic at Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turke...
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... was no difference between depressed and non- depressed patients in stroke severity scores. The QOL subscale scores, except RP and RE, were lower in the high BDI score (>18) patient group ( Table 3). There was a positive correlation between age and BDI scores of Table 1 -Distribution of the individuals forming the study group in respect to their socio-demographic characteristics and clinical features. ...
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... Our previous studies found that the severity of neurological deficits and diabetes mellitus were linked to PSD. 10,11 Furthermore, it was reported that age, personality, education level, and stroke location were also correlated with PSD. [12][13][14] In recent years, the correlation between WMH and PSD has attracted widespread attention. ...
Objective
This study aimed to explore the correlation between white matter hyperintensity (WMH) and post-stroke depression (PSD) at 3 months, and to further investigate sex differences in the pathogenesis of PSD.
Methods
A total of 238 consecutive patients with acute cerebral infarction were recruited. PSD was assessed at 2 weeks and at 3 months after stroke onset. All stroke cases were divided into four subgroups according to the diagnosis of depression at two time nodes: continuous depression; depression remission; late-onset PSD; and continuous non-depression. The Fazekas and Scheltens visual rating scales were adopted to assess WMH.
Results
Logistic regression revealed that the presence of periventricular white matter hyperintensity (PVWMH) at baseline in male patients was an independent risk factor for PSD at 3 months. Further subgroup analysis revealed that PVWMH was associated with late-onset PSD in males, but not with continuous depression 3 months after stroke. Male acute stroke patients with PVWMH at baseline were more likely to develop PSD at 3 months, especially late-onset PSD.
Conclusion
Our data suggest that sex differences may influence the pathogenesis of PSD.
Aims and objectives
This study aimed to establish and test a predictive model for explaining the health‐related quality of life of young adult patients with stroke.
Background
Individual characteristics, biological and physiological variables, social support, emotional and cognitive symptoms, physical function disability and general health perception may be interrelated and may directly or indirectly affect the health‐related quality of life of young adult patients with stroke.
Design
A cross‐sectional study.
Methods
237 young outpatients with stroke were recruited and surveyed. Data collection used a structured questionnaire from July–November 2018. The collected data were analysed using SPSS version 25.0® and AMOS 23.0. This study is based on STROBE guidelines.
Results
The hypothetical model's fit indices were adequate. Stroke severity, social support, fear of stroke recurrence, physical function disability and general health perceptions directly affected the health‐related quality of life. Additionally, stroke severity, depression and fear of stroke recurrence also indirectly affected it. These variables explained 60.3% of the variance in this quality.
Conclusions
Variables such as severity of stroke, depression, fear of stroke recurrence, social support, physical function disability and general health perception were found to be related to the HRQoL of young adult patients with stroke.
Relevance to clinical practice
A variety of physical, psychological, functional and social factors related to health‐related quality of life should be systematically monitored. Furthermore, nurses need to develop and apply detailed nursing interventions that take into account all these variables.
Objectives. The aims of the article are, firstly, to analyze the effect of different methods of post-stroke depression assessment on estimated prevalence rates of this condition, and secondly, to consider other possible factors contributing to significant discrepancies in the available epidemiological data. Method. Data on prevalence of post-stroke depression (PSD) reported in 44 English-language papers indexed by the PubMed database were analyzed. The data were categorized with regard both to the type of diagnostic instruments used (clinical classification systems, diagnostic scales or self-report questionnaires) and populations studied (general population, inpatients, and discharged patients). The reported prevalence rates in these populations were compared controlling for the diagnostic instrument used. Results. There were statistically significant differences in the PSD prevalence rates in the general population depending on the type of diagnostic tools used, ranging from about 14% (in terms of clinical scales), through almost 24% (by diagnostic criteria of classification systems), to almost 32% (self-report questionnaires). As regards the inpatient population, the highest PSD prevalence rates (over 39%), obtained using classification systems, were significantly higher than these estimated with the use of the remaining two types of diagnostic tools (both indicating slightly over 31%). In the population of discharged patients the lowest prevalence of PSD (over 5%) was indicated by classification systems. This rate was significantly lower than the concordant estimates of PSD prevalence (slightly over 31%) obtained from the other two diagnostic tools. Conclusions. Self-report questionnaires, clinical scales and classification systems differ in their accuracy of the PSD assessment. In each of the three populations analyzed significant measurement differences were found between the three categories of diagnostic tools, which may result in the discrepancies in reported PSD prevalence rates. Thus, it seems desirable to assess the diagnostic accuracy of particular instruments, as well as the effect of time from stroke on PSD onset.
To compare health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and psychosocial features in rapidly progressive neuromuscular disorders (RPNMD) and slowly progressive neuromuscular disorders (SPNMD) in adult ambulatory patients, to determine individual needs in 2 separate progression groups.
Thirty-nine SPNMD patients and 46 RPNMD patients were recruited. The functional independence measurement (FIM) was employed to evaluate the functional status. For the assessment of depression, anxiety, and HRQoL, patients were requested to fill out a Beck Depression Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP). This study was performed at the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Hacettepe University Faculty of Health Science, Ankara, Turkey between August and December 2009.
The FIM total score did not differ between the 2 groups. Only energy was significantly high (worse) among the dimensions of NHP in RPNMD patients. None of the other sub-items differed between the 2 patient groups. The SPNMD patients were more depressed than the RPNMD patients. The mean state and trait anxiety scores were significantly higher in SPNMD patients as well.
Significant depressive or anxious symptomatology is not associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The diagnosis of SPNMD should alert physicians in an equivalent promptness to ALS and possible depression or anxiety, and concerns of patients regarding the chronic, though slowly progressive course of the disease.
