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Depression And Anxiety One Month After Stroke, Cha-Nam Shin, Mo-Kyung Sin, Eunice Lee, Jongwon Lee, Kyungeh An, Jeongha Sim
Depression And Anxiety One Month After Stroke, Cha-Nam Shin, Mo-Kyung Sin, Eunice Lee, Jongwon Lee, Kyungeh An, Jeongha Sim
Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal
Depression and anxiety after stroke negatively affect patient outcomes; however, health care professionals may overlook poststroke depression and anxiety while they focus on the physical disabilities of patients soon after a stroke. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and predictors of depression, anxiety, or both concurrently at one month after stroke. We conducted a cross-sectional, descriptive study in a sample of 231 hospitalized patients with ischemic stroke in Korea. Data were collected by interviews using a series of structured questionnaires in addition to clinical data retrieved from patients’ medical records. More than 70% were identified as …