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Twelve month follow-up on a randomised controlled trial of relaxation training for post-stroke anxiety
Katherine Golding1, Chris Fife-Schaw2, Ian Kneebone3
11 Clinical Neuropsychology Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK.
Objective:
To follow up participants in a randomised controlled trial of relaxation training for anxiety after stroke at 12 months.
Design:
Twelve month follow-up to a randomised controlled trial, in which the control group also received treatment.
Setting:
Community.
Participants:
Fifteen of twenty one original participants with post-stroke anxiety participated in a one year follow-up study.
Interventions:
A self-help autogenic relaxation CD listened to five times a week for one month, immediately in the intervention group and after three months in the control group.
Main Measures:
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Anxiety subscale and the Telephone Interview of Cognitive Status for inclusion. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Anxiety subscale for outcome. All measures were administered by phone.
Results:
Anxiety ratings reduced significantly between pre and post-intervention, and between pre-intervention and one year follow-up ( χ2(2) = 22.29, p < 0.001).
Conclusions:
Reductions in anxiety in stroke survivors who received a self-help autogenic relaxation CD appear to be maintained after one year.
