Poststroke Anxiety and Depression: Findings from Saudi Arabia

作者：Al Busaidi Ibrahim Saleh; Alamri Yassar^*

来源：Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2016, 25(7): 1653-1654.

DOI：10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2016.03.003

• Stroke
• Saudi Arabia
• anxiety
• depression

Background: Anxiety and depression are the two most frequent neuropsychiatric manifestations of stroke. In Saudi Arabia, there is a general lack of research into anxiety and depression in stroke patients when compared with physical complications. Methods: We assessed the prevalence of anxiety and depression in 76 stroke patients from Saudi Arabia using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Results: In this study, 18.4% and 23.7% of the patients met the HADS criteria for moderate or severe anxiety and depression, respectively. Female gender was the only significant predictive factor associated with both anxiety (P=.03) and depression (P=.04), where longer duration since stroke was only associated with anxiety (P=.02) but not depression (P=.25). Conclusions: These results suggest that anxiety and depression are commonplace in Saudi patients with stroke, a finding that has implications for clinical practice and future research.

• 出版日期2016-7