Incidence of Depression after Stroke, a Cross-Sectional Study Conducted in Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar Pakistan

Abstract

Objective: To find the incidence of depression among all hospitalized patients who presented with stroke.

Study Design: Cross sectional study

Place and Duration of study: This study was conducted at Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar. Total duration of the study was 12 months, starting from January, 2017 to December, 2017.

Materials and Methods: In this study, total 162 patients were enrolled after proper consent. Hamilton depression scaling score was applied to document depression.

Results: The mean age was 73 ± 27.71 years.  60% patients were male while 40% patients were female. Eighty percent patients had ischemic stroke while 20% patients had hemorrhagic stroke. The incidence of depression was found to be 35%. Females were more prone to develop depression as compared to male patients. The incidence of depression was high in early age and late old age.

Conclusion: Our study concludes that the incidence of depression was found to be 35% among hospitalized stroke patients.