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| Risk factors for post-stroke depression | | Author(s) | Peter Burvill, Gloria Johnson, Konrad Jamrozik |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 2, Special Issue, February 1997 |
| Pages | pp 219-226 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Feeding capacity ; Stroke ; Australia. |
| Annotation | In this survey of 191 first-ever stroke patients in Perth, Western Australia, 28% had post-stroke depression (PSD), 17% major, and 11% minor depression. Significant associations with PSD after four months were major functional impairment, living in a nursing home, being divorced, and, among men, having a high pre-stroke alcohol intake. There was no significant association with age, sex, social class, cognitive impairment or pre-stroke physical illness. Results favoured the hypothesis that depression in an unselected group of stroke patients is no more common, and of no more specific aetiology, than it is among elderly patients with other physical illness. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970807219 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CA4: CQA: 7YA |
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