A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms After Dysvascular Amputation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Characterize the course of depressive symptoms during the first year after dysvascular amputation and identify factors that predict symptom trajectories.

Design

Prospective cohort study of individuals undergoing lower extremity amputation (LEA), surveyed at 4 time points (perioperative period, 6 weeks, 4 months, and 12 months postamputation). Multilevel modeling was used to describe and predict trajectories.

Setting

Four Veterans Affairs medical centers, a university hospital, and a level I trauma center.

Participants

Participants (N=141; 74% retention) were a consecutive sample, eligible if they were undergoing their first unilateral LEA secondary to dysvascular disease.

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main outcome measure

Patient Health

SUBMITTER: Roepke AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7504975 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature