Anxiety and depression in patients with giant cell arteritis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare the prevalence of anxiety and depression in patients with GCA with that in the general population, using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and to identify independent predictors of these psychiatric manifestations in patients with GCA.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional study including all patients diagnosed with GCA followed during 1 year in a vasculitis outpatient clinic. The HADS and 36-item Short Form (SF-36) questionnaires were prospectively collected. Patients' HADS results were compared with an age- and gender-matched control group. HADS anxiety (HADS-A) and HADS depression (HADS-D) scores between 8 and 10 defined possible anxiety and depression and ≥11 defined probable anxiety and depression, respectively.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Martins-Martinho J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10879746 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature