Emotional state correlates with disease stigma
stroke, vessel disease
STROKE
The present study showed that positive emotions were negatively correlated with stigma and negative emotions were positively correlated with stigma in young and middle-aged patients recovering from stroke, which is In line with Wang Xiao [However, there are some limitations to our study. On one side, it was a cross-sectional survey and did not follow up on the patients’ sense of stigma. On the other hand, because small vessel disease of the brain is a heterogeneous series of pathophysiological processes [