Objective: Authors analysed the prevalence of depressive symptomatology among the patients of a day time rehabilitation department for mobility disorders.
Methods: Beck's Depression Inventory was used as a screening instrument. 57 subjects completed the inventory both at admission and discharge.
Results: 33 subjects of 57 showed depressive symptoms at admission and 13 persons at discharge. The number of patients with mild depressive symptomatology decreased from 24 to 10, with medium level depression from 5 to 2 and with severe depression from 4 to 1. None of them have taken antidepressive drugs.
Conclusions: These results confirm the high importance of the proper psychological conduction of patients with depressive symptoms.