Association between Poststroke Depression and Psychological Crisis: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the association between poststroke depression (PSD) and psychological crisis in patients who have experienced a stroke within 6 months.

Methods

This was a retrospective cross-sectional study that enrolled patients within 6 months after stroke onset. The investigators reviewed medical charts to obtain patients' baseline characteristics, and a psychologist evaluated each patient for depression using the Taiwanese Depression Questionnaire (TDQ) and for psychological crisis using the Triage Assessment System (TAS). A generalized linear model (GLM) was used to analyze the association between the results of the TDQ and TAS.

Results

Ninety-seven patients with stroke were included. Age (p = 0.003), time since onset of stroke (p = 0.041),

SUBMITTER: Hsieh HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7857865 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature