3 results match your criteria: "Blizard Institute. Centre for Primary Care and Public Health[Affiliation]"
Evaluation of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in screening stroke patients for symptoms: Item Response Theory (IRT) analysis.
J Affect Disord
March 2018
School of Population Health and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine King's College, London, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) South London at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
Background: Variations have been reported in the number of underlying constructs and choice of thresholds that determine caseness of anxiety and /or depression using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADS). This study examined the properties of each item of HADS as perceived by stroke patients, and assessed the information these items convey about anxiety and depression between 3 months to 5 years after stroke.
Methods: The study included 1443 stroke patients from the South London Stroke Register (SLSR).
The natural history of depression and trajectories of symptoms long term after stroke: The prospective south London stroke register.
J Affect Disord
April 2016
Division of Health and Social Care Research King's College London, London, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) South London at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
Background: The natural history of depression in stroke patients is complex and the mechanism of change in symptoms over time is not fully understood. We hypothesise that there are different trajectories of symptoms after stroke.
Methods: The primary analysis comprised 761 patients who completed 5 years follow up, obtained from the prospective South London Stroke Register (1998-2013).