Depression and Quality of Life in Patients Within the First 6 Months After the Spinal Cord Injury.
Depression and Quality of Life in Patients within the First 6 Months after the Spinal Cord Injury.
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Ann Rehabil Med. 2012 Feb; 36(1): 119-25
Shin JC, Goo HR, Yu SJ, Kim DH, Yoon SY
To evaluate the severity of depression, degree of life satisfaction, level of stress, and resilience among patients in the first 6 months after a spinal cord injury (SCI).36 patients with SCI were asked to fill out questionnaires concerning Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire-BREF, Stress Response Inventory, and Connor-Davidson resilience scale. All patients had experienced an SCI within the last 6 months before the commencement of this study.In our study, the patients who experienced the SCI within the last six months had a higher rate of depression (63.9%) and a higher overall level of depression (13.8 points). The unmarried group had a significantly higher quality of life (QOL; p<0.05) when compared with the married group. In the motor complete group, severity of depression and level of stress were higher, whereas QOL was lower than the motor incomplete group (p<0.05). The mean American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) Motor Score (AMS) was much higher in the non-depressive group (p<0.05) when compared with the depressive group.We found the patients within six months after SCI injury had higher rate of depression and higher overall level of depression. Also, patients with motor complete injury had affected significantly on depression, QOL and stress. We found the married patients had poorer QOL and depressive group had lower AMS score of lower extremity. Therefore, there should be emphasis of psychological care who have motor complete injury and are married during the early stage. HubMed – depression
Factors associated with depressive symptoms in patients with chronic low back pain.
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Ann Rehabil Med. 2011 Oct; 35(5): 710-8
Ha JY, Kim ES, Kim HJ, Park SJ
To investigate depressive symptoms and their related factors in patients with chronic low back pain in Korea.A cross-sectional study using data from the fourth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES IV) 2009 was undertaken. The sample consisted of 1,426 participants with chronic low back pain. Multifactorial regression analysis was used to identify the association between depressive symptoms and socioeconomic demographics and other chronic diseases.Among the 371 (26.0%) patients with depression, significant factors associated with depressive symptoms were female gender (odds ratio [OR], 2.691; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.724-4.199), medical aid beneficiary (OR, 1.371; 95% CI, 1.039-1.810), a dependent group for activities of daily living (OR, 1.570; 95% CI, 1.180-2.087), ‘not good’ in the perceived health category (OR, 2.309; 95% CI, 1.730-3.081) and in a cancer group (OR, 1.803; 95% CI, 1.051-3.093).This study provides the foundation for managing patients with chronic low back pain and depressive symptoms. Clinicians managing chronic low back pain should consider risk factors for depressive symptoms.
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Characteristics of computerized neuropsychologic test according to the location of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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Ann Rehabil Med. 2011 Oct; 35(5): 680-6
Yoo SD, Kim DH, Kim GK, Bark J
To evaluate characteristics of cognitive impairments according to the location of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) using a computerized neuropsychological test (CNT).A total of 211 patients were transferred to our rehabilitation department after becoming neurologically stable following aneurysmal SAH. Twenty four of the 211 patients met the inclusion criteria and participated in a screening test using the mini-mental state examination (MMSE). Twenty patients with a MMSE score <26 were followed prospectively with a CNT and Beck depression inventory (BDI). Eleven patients had anterior communicating artery (ACoA) aneurysms and the other 9 had middle cerebral, internal carotid or posterior communicating artery aneurysms.There were no differences in age, education, Hunt and Hess grade, or Fisher grade between the patients with ACoA aneurysmal SAH compared to patients with other aneurysmal SAH. In patients with ACoA aneurysmal SAH, scores of BDI (p=0.020), verbal learning test were lower than those of other aneurysmal SAH patients. In contrast, patients with non-ACoA aneurysmal SAH took significantly more time in auditory (p=0.025) and visual continuous performance tests (p=0.028). The cognitive deficit following aneurysmal SAH could be characterized by its location using CNT.Using CNT in aneurysmal SAH patients could be a useful tool for evaluating the characteristics of cognitive impairment and planning rehabilitation programs according to each characteristic. HubMed – depression
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