title: Poststroke Anxiety and Depression: Findings from Saudi Arabia.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Anxiety and depression are the two most frequent neuropsychiatric manifestations of stroke. In Saudi Arabia, there is a general lack of research into anxiety and depression in stroke patients when compared with physical complications.
  
  
  METHODS
  We assessed the prevalence of anxiety and depression in 76 stroke patients from Saudi Arabia using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS).
  
  
  RESULTS
  In this study, 18.4% and 23.7% of the patients met the HADS criteria for moderate or severe anxiety and depression, respectively. Female gender was the only significant predictive factor associated with both anxiety (P = .03) and depression (P = .04), where longer duration since stroke was only associated with anxiety (P = .02) but not depression (P = .25).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results suggest that anxiety and depression are commonplace in Saudi patients with stroke, a finding that has implications for clinical practice and future research.
authors.affiliation: Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Ibrahim Saleh
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Al-Busaidi
authors.affiliation: Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand; Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand; New Zealand Brain Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand. Electronic address: yassar.alamri@nzbri.org.
authors.forename: Yassar
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Alamri
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012307:Risk Factors; D012529:Saudi Arabia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012737:Sex Factors; D020521:Stroke / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Saudi Arabia; Stroke; anxiety; depression