Symptoms of Poststroke Depression among Stroke Survivors: An Appraisal of Psychiatry Needs and Care during Physiotherapy Rehabilitation

Table 3

Relationship between depression and clinical demographic variables (complications and presenting pattern; ).

	Variables studied	Nondepressed	Depression		value
Location of cerebral lesion	Left	16	11	0.013	0.909
	Right	14	9
Complications	Dementia	1	0	3.459	0.177
	Hypertension	21	18
	Nil	8	2
Duration of occurrence	1–3	21	12	21.680	0.001
	4–6	9	7
	7–9	0	1

= chi-square; indicates significance at .