Changes in patients' depression and anxiety associated with changes in patient-reported outcomes after spine surgery.

CONCLUSIONS: Many spine surgery patients experienced postoperative improvements in depression/anxiety. Improvements in 12-month PROs were smaller among patients with persistent or postoperatively developed depression/anxiety compared with patients who had no depression or anxiety before or after surgery and those whose depression/anxiety improved after surgery. Postoperative changes in depression/anxiety may have a greater effect than preoperative depression/anxiety on changes in PROs after spine surgery. Addressing the mental health of spine surgery patients may improve postoperative PROs.■ CLASSIFICATION OF EVIDENCE Type of question: causation; study design: prospective cohort study; evidence: class III.
PMID: 32005017 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Neurosurgery.Spine - January 30, 2020 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Rahman R, Ibaseta A, Reidler JS, Andrade NS, Skolasky RL, Riley LH, Cohen DB, Sciubba DM, Kebaish KM, Neuman BJ Tags: J Neurosurg Spine Source Type: research