title: Twelve month follow-up on a randomised controlled trial of relaxation training for post-stroke anxiety.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To follow up participants in a randomised controlled trial of relaxation training for anxiety after stroke at 12 months.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twelve month follow-up to a randomised controlled trial, in which the control group also received treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Community.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifteen of twenty one original participants with post-stroke anxiety participated in a one year follow-up study.
  
  
  METHODS
  A self-help autogenic relaxation CD listened to five times a week for one month, immediately in the intervention group and after three months in the control group.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Anxiety subscale and the Telephone Interview of Cognitive Status for inclusion. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Anxiety subscale for outcome. All measures were administered by phone.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Anxiety ratings reduced significantly between pre and post-intervention, and between pre-intervention and one year follow-up ( χ2(2) = 22.29, p < 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Reductions in anxiety in stroke survivors who received a self-help autogenic relaxation CD appear to be maintained after one year.
authors.affiliation: 1 Clinical Neuropsychology Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Golding
authors.affiliation: 2 School of Psychology, University of Surrey, UK.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fife-Schaw
authors.affiliation: 3 Discipline of Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kneebone
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012064:Relaxation Therapy; D020521:Stroke / Q000523:psychology*; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Stroke; anxiety; self-help relaxation