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Symptom Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression in Older Cardiac Arrest Survivors: A Comparative Nationwide Register Study

Knowledge about psychological distress in older cardiac arrest (CA) survivors is sparse, and the lack of comparisons with general populations make it difficult to draw any strong conclusions about prevalence and potential changes caused by CA. Our aim was to compare psychological distress between ol...

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Autores principales: Årestedt, Kristofer, Israelsson, Johan, Djukanovic, Ingrid, Herlitz, Johan, Carlsson, Jörg, Petersson, Suzanne, Bremer, Anders
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8470576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34575396
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184285
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author Årestedt, Kristofer
Israelsson, Johan
Djukanovic, Ingrid
Herlitz, Johan
Carlsson, Jörg
Petersson, Suzanne
Bremer, Anders
author_facet Årestedt, Kristofer
Israelsson, Johan
Djukanovic, Ingrid
Herlitz, Johan
Carlsson, Jörg
Petersson, Suzanne
Bremer, Anders
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description Knowledge about psychological distress in older cardiac arrest (CA) survivors is sparse, and the lack of comparisons with general populations make it difficult to draw any strong conclusions about prevalence and potential changes caused by CA. Our aim was to compare psychological distress between older CA survivors and a general population. This study included survivors 65–80 years old and an age- and sex-matched general population. Data on survivors was collected from the Swedish Register of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale was used to measure psychological distress. Data were analyzed with non-parametric statistics. The final sample included 1027 CA survivors and 1018 persons from the general population. In both groups, the mean age was 72 years (SD = 4) and 28% were women. The prevalence of anxiety was 9.9% for survivors and 9.5% for the general population, while the corresponding prevalence for depression was 11.3% and 11.5% respectively. Using the cut-off scores, no significant differences between the groups were detected. However, CA survivors reported significantly lower symptom levels using the subscale scores (ΔMdn = 1, p < 0.001). In conclusion, the CA survivors did not report higher symptom levels of anxiety and depression than the general population. However, since psychological distress is related to poor quality-of-life and recovery, screening for psychological distress remains important.
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spelling pubmed-84705762021-09-27 Symptom Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression in Older Cardiac Arrest Survivors: A Comparative Nationwide Register Study Årestedt, Kristofer Israelsson, Johan Djukanovic, Ingrid Herlitz, Johan Carlsson, Jörg Petersson, Suzanne Bremer, Anders J Clin Med Article Knowledge about psychological distress in older cardiac arrest (CA) survivors is sparse, and the lack of comparisons with general populations make it difficult to draw any strong conclusions about prevalence and potential changes caused by CA. Our aim was to compare psychological distress between older CA survivors and a general population. This study included survivors 65–80 years old and an age- and sex-matched general population. Data on survivors was collected from the Swedish Register of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale was used to measure psychological distress. Data were analyzed with non-parametric statistics. The final sample included 1027 CA survivors and 1018 persons from the general population. In both groups, the mean age was 72 years (SD = 4) and 28% were women. The prevalence of anxiety was 9.9% for survivors and 9.5% for the general population, while the corresponding prevalence for depression was 11.3% and 11.5% respectively. Using the cut-off scores, no significant differences between the groups were detected. However, CA survivors reported significantly lower symptom levels using the subscale scores (ΔMdn = 1, p < 0.001). In conclusion, the CA survivors did not report higher symptom levels of anxiety and depression than the general population. However, since psychological distress is related to poor quality-of-life and recovery, screening for psychological distress remains important. MDPI 2021-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8470576/ /pubmed/34575396 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184285 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Carlsson, Jörg
Petersson, Suzanne
Bremer, Anders
Symptom Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression in Older Cardiac Arrest Survivors: A Comparative Nationwide Register Study
title Symptom Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression in Older Cardiac Arrest Survivors: A Comparative Nationwide Register Study
title_full Symptom Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression in Older Cardiac Arrest Survivors: A Comparative Nationwide Register Study
title_fullStr Symptom Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression in Older Cardiac Arrest Survivors: A Comparative Nationwide Register Study
title_full_unstemmed Symptom Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression in Older Cardiac Arrest Survivors: A Comparative Nationwide Register Study
title_short Symptom Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression in Older Cardiac Arrest Survivors: A Comparative Nationwide Register Study
title_sort symptom prevalence of anxiety and depression in older cardiac arrest survivors: a comparative nationwide register study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8470576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34575396
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184285
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