Deans' stroke musings: Gender, health ambiguity, and depression among survivors of first stroke: A pilot study

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, May 17, 2013

Gender, health ambiguity, and depression among survivors of first stroke: A pilot study

It proves my point that with no damage diagnosis and no idea of how well you will recover you are likely to be depressed.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J65474&phrase=no&rec=120783
NARIC Accession Number: J65474. What's this?
ISSN: 0003-9993.
Author(s): McCarthy, Michael J.; Lyons, Karen S.; Powers, Laurie E.; Bauer, Elizabeth A..
Publication Year: 2013.
Number of Pages: 3.
Abstract: Study investigated the relationship between health ambiguity and depressive symptoms among stroke survivors and whether survivor gender moderates this association. Thirty-six survivors of first stroke were recruited through provider referral, support groups, and print and Web-based sources. Participants completed questionnaires via face-to-face interviews. Health ambiguity was measured with the ambiguity subscale of the Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale. Depressive symptoms were measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire-9. Paired samples t tests were used to examine differences between male and female survivors on key variables. Ordinary least squares regression was used to examine main and interaction effects of ambiguity and gender on depressive symptoms. A simple slopes test was used to examine the interaction effect. Health ambiguity, gender, and the interaction of the 2 variables were significantly associated with depressive symptoms. Simple slopes tests indicated that the association between health ambiguity and depressive symptoms was stronger for male versus female survivors. This study indicated that gender and health ambiguity impact survivor depressive symptoms, independently and in conjunction with one another. Further research with larger samples and more comprehensive statistical models is needed to confirm these findings.
Descriptor Terms: DEPRESSION, FEMALES, FUNCTIONAL STATUS, MALES, OUTCOMES, SELF CONCEPT, STROKE.

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