Christidis, D.A., Delipalta, A., Paschalidou, M., and Milonas, I. Symptoms of depression in patients with multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries. Αναρτημένη εργασία στο 13th Meeting of the European Neurological Society. European Neurological Society. Istanbul, Turkey. (Ιούνιος 2003).
Abstract: The aim of this study was to compare depressive symptoms in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI) and healthy individuals (control group (CG)). Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Greek version of the Beck Depression Inventory-2nd edition (BDI-II, 1994), a well accepted instrument for investigating depression in various populations. Thirty patients with MS (15 men, 15 women), twenty persons with SCI (16 men, 4 women) and thirty healthy controls (15 men, 15 women) participated in this study. These three groups did not differ statistically with respect to their age (M=39, SD=9.29) and educational status (M=10, SD=2.92). Moreover, the two groups (MS and SCI) had the same level of independence, as it was evaluated with the Daily Activity Scale (Randall et al., 2000). The results illustrated that the BDI-II scores for the MS and the SCI groups were significantly higher than the controls (p<0.05), whilst amongst them (MS and SCI) they did not reach statistical significance (p>0.05).