PENGARUH DEPRESI PADA AWAL STROKE (MINGGU I) TERHADAP WAKTU PERBAIKAN DEFISIT NEUROLOGIS PENDERITA STROKE NON HEMORAGIK

Abstract

Introduction : Depression is the most common type of psychiatric disorder among stroke patients. It is considered as a usual reaction that frequently ignored by family and paramedic. It had been agreed that depression will hampered the neurological deficits recovery of stroke patients. The research was aimed to examine the influence of depression to the recovery time of neurological deficits in infarct stroke patient. Methods : An observation research with prospective study of 70 infarct stroke subjects. The subjects were infact stroke patients hospitalized in B1 neurology ward Dr. Kariadi hospital, January 2005 until December 2005. Neurological deficits were examined with National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and the depression was diagnosed with Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) . Neurological deficits recovery was examine in II, III, IV, V and VI with NIHSS. The patient has recovered if the score of NIHSS is 5 and not recovered if not reach the score of NIHSS 5. The result of the research is shown as graphics and survival analysis tables to know the difference of time recovery. The confounding factor was controlled with logistic regression analysis. The level of significant used this research is with p < 0.05). Results : Subjects without depressed mental state recovered in 3.88 weeks (95% CI 3.37; 4.39) and subjects with depressed mental state recovered in 5.78 weeks (95% CI 5.05; 6.06). Confounding factors that influence to recovery time of improve neurological deficits were age with p = 0.021 and course result of neurological deficit examination at first week with p = 0.001. Conclusions : Stroke patients with depression require more time to recover from neurological deficits compared with non depression stroke patients. Key Words : Post stroke depression – NIHSS – survival analysis