TY - JOUR AU - Babirad, A. PY - 2021/10/29 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Prevalence and severity of depression in patients with the consequences of ischemic strokes and in patients with chronic brain ischemia JF - Journal of Education, Health and Sport JA - J Educ Health Sport VL - 11 IS - 10 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.12775/JEHS.2021.11.10.030 UR - https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/36251 SP - 320-324 AB - <p><strong>The aim</strong> of our study was to investigate the prevalence and severity of depression in patients with the consequences of ischemic strokes and in patients with chronic brain ischemia. <strong>Material and Methods.</strong> We examined 100 patients with consequences of ischemic strokes and 17 patients with chronic cerebral ischemia. The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale was used to assess the presence and degree of depression. <strong>Conclusions.</strong> Slightly less than half of the patients with chronic cerebral ischemia (47.1%) had no depression, 42.1% had mild depression, and only 11.8% of the patients had moderate and severe depression. A different situation was observed in the group of patients with the consequences of ischemic strokes. Among them, only 22.0% of patients had no depression, 44.0% had mild depression, and 34.0% of patients had moderate, severe, and extremely severe depression (p &lt; 0.05).</p> ER -