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Apathy and Depression as Predictors of Activities of Daily Living Following Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injuries in Adults: A Meta-Analysis.
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- Diminished Social and Leisure Engagement in Community Dwelling-Older Adults with Apathy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Reliability, validity, and diagnostic accuracy of the apathy evaluation scale in chronic stroke survivors.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Psychological predictors of incident subjective cognitive complaints in community dwelling older adults.Annals of medicine · 2024Article
- The relationship between childhood hunger experiences and activities of daily living disability: a mediating role of depression.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Long-Term Outcome of Motor Functional Neurological Disorder After Rehabilitation.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2024Article
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- Stratifying Risk for Cognitive Decline in Older Adult Populations using the Geriatric Depression Scale.Journal of psychiatry and cognitive behaviour · 2024Article
- The relationship between rehabilitation motivation and upper limb motor function in stroke patients.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Psychological aspects of rehabilitation nutrition: A position paper by the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Nutrition (secondary publication).Journal of general and family medicine · 2024Article
- The neural correlates of apathy in the context of aging and brain disorders: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Review
- Non-pharmacological intervention effects on apathy caused by central nervous system organic diseases: A network meta-analysis.Medicine · 2022Article
- Long-term increase in sensitivity to ketamine's behavioral effects in mice exposed to mild blast induced traumatic brain injury.Experimental neurology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Apathy and depression are common sequelae of acquired brain injury (ABI). Apathy is a syndrome characterized by diminished motivation and purposeful behaviours. Depression is a mood disorder featuring sadness, worthlessness, anhedonia and suicidal ideation. Both are associated negatively with activities of daily living (ADL), the skills required to fulfil basic and complex physical needs. However, the current literature's results are inconsistent and based on relatively small sample sizes. Furthermore, the unique and combined effects of apathy and depression as predictors of ADL have not yet been estimated. This is important, as both may have implications for planning rehabilitation after an ABI. Consequently, we aimed to estimate the association between apathy, depression and ADL in the stroke and traumatic brain injured population via meta-analysis and meta-analytic path-analysis. Based on the meta-analyses (N = 1,166 to N = 1,389), we estimated the following statistically significant bivariate effects: depression and apathy (r = .53, 95% CI: .42/.63), depression and ADL (r = -.27, 95% CI: -.43/-.11), apathy and ADL (r = -.41, 95% CI: -.51/-.31). A meta-analytic mediation model found that depression had a significant indirect effect onto ADL (β = -.17, 95% CI: -.26/-.09), while apathy had a significant direct effect (β = -.34, 95% CI: -.48/-.19) onto ADL (model R
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