The effectiveness of body psychotherapy on executive functions in patients with post-stroke depression

Psychotherapy sessions and the control group received routine treatment. Patients were assessed via demographic questionnaires, Beck Depression Inventory, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, and computerized tests of executive performance measures including the Wisconsin Card Test, Tower of London, ion: Due to the high prevalence of post-stroke depression, appropriate rehabilitation is needed to improve and rehabilitate them. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of body Psychotherapy on improving executive functions of depressed patients with post-stroke depression.

This clinical study performed in Mehrana Nursing Home in Bojnourd city in 2019. Twenty women with post-stroke depression were selected by purposeful sampling and were randomly divided into two groups of intervention (n = 10) and control (n = 10). The intervention group participated in body psychotherapy sessions and the control group received routine treatment. Patients were assessed via demographic questionnaires, Beck Depression Inventory, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, and computerized tests of executive performance measures including the Wisconsin Card Test, Tower of London, Visual-Cubic Visual Memory, and Wechsler cultivars. Data were analyzed by t-test and covariance analysis by SPSS software.

The intervention group showed significant improvements in the London Tower tests (p = 0.000), cursive cubes (p = 0.03), Wisconsin card and Wechsler memory space (p = 0.03) than the control group.

Based on the findings of this study, body psychotherapy can help improve executive functions in people with post-stroke depression.