Abstract
Objective
To investigate the prevalence of depression and subthreshold depression in persons
with aphasia. To investigate whether there are linguistic and cognitive differences
between those with depression, subthreshold depression, and no depression.
Design
Survey.
Setting
Rehabilitation hospital.
Participants
Participants with chronic aphasia due to a single left-hemisphere stroke (N=144).
Main Outcome Measures
Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale to assess the prevalence of depression.
The Western Aphasia Battery-Revised (WAB-R) to evaluate the type of aphasia; the Aphasia
Quotient measured the severity of linguistic deficits.
Results
The prevalence of depression in our participants was 19.44% while that of subthreshold
depression was 22.22%. Depressed persons with aphasia had significantly lower WAB-R
reading scores than those without depression.
Conclusions
Findings suggest that persons with aphasia who have depressive symptoms may do worse
on some linguistic measures than those with no depression. Since subthreshold depression
can progress to depression, clinicians should routinely screen for depressive symptoms.
Keywords
List of abbreviations:
ANOVA (analysis of variance), AQ (Aphasia Quotient), BF10 (Bayes factor), CESD (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale), RCPM (Raven’s Colored Progressive Matrices), WAB-R (Western Aphasia Battery-Revised)To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Publication history
Published online: March 02, 2019
Footnotes
Supported by an Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training Grant (grant no. H133P120013/90AR5015 [to L.R.C.]) from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) and the Coleman Foundation. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official view of NIDILRR.
Disclosures: none.
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