Background: Stroke is the major cause of death in many countries. Stroke prevalence in Indonesia increased from 7% in 2013 to 10.9% in 2018. The highest prevalence of stroke in Indonesia, East Borneo province, increased 2 times from 7% to 14% in 5 yea...
Background: Stroke is the major cause of death in many countries. Stroke prevalence in Indonesia increased from 7% in 2013 to 10.9% in 2018. The highest prevalence of stroke in Indonesia, East Borneo province, increased 2 times from 7% to 14% in 5 years. Depression and anxiety also become the most common emotional disturbances after stroke. Post-stroke depression (PSD) is highly prevalent among stroke survivors and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. This study was population-based study as there has been a little research about this topic and they mainly used hospital-based study design.
Objectives: The general objective of this study was to know the correlation between post-stroke disability and mental distress at productive age (15 – 64 years) in East Borneo. Some specific objectives are to know whether severity level of disability has association with mental distress, whether stroke has association with the severity level of disability, whether stroke with disability synergistically increased the chance of having mental distress and whether other individual characteristics such as gender, employment status, age group, education level, marital status associated with mental distress.
Methods: Data was taken from the Basic Health Research Survey in 2013 with a total sample of 15277 people. Variables in this research were independent variables including disability level, stroke status and individual characteristics such as gender, age group, employment status, education level, and marital status. The dependent variable was the mental distress status. The data were analysed using univariate analysis to describe each variable with the frequency and percentage distribution and using spearman correlation and logistic regression to see the relationship between the 2 variables. The software used in this analysis process was SPSS and R software
Results: Disability level had enough correlation with mental distress. People with high disability level were more likely to develop mental distress. While education level, gender, employment status, marital status, age group and stroke have weak correlation with mental distress. Based on logistic regression results, being female, older, married, having stroke, having high disability by stroke and having no education background significantly increases the risk of having mental distress (p-value <0.05). On the other hand, being stroke-high disabled and unemployed were not significantly increase the risk of having mental distress (p-value > 0.05). Diagnosed as stroke also correlated with having more severe disability. Being stroke significantly increase the risk of having more severe disability (p-value <0.05).
Conclusion: As most of stroke and disabled people living in East Borneo are in their peak of productive ages and have significant tendency of having mental distress, it would be better if government did some intervention such as early screening for mental distress and providing some training to live their life without feeling burdensome to people around them.
Keywords: Stroke, Disability, Mental distress, Women