Memory complaints after COVID-19: a potential indicator of primary cognitive impairment or a correlate of psychiatric symptoms?

Autor: Yiling Dong, Ana Paula Ritto, Rodolfo Furlan Damiano, Amanda Goulart Coli, Rodrigo Hadade, Cristiana Castanho de Almeida Rocca, Antonio de Pádua Serafim, Bruno Fukelmann Guedes, Ricardo Nitrini, Marta Imamura, Orestes Vicente Forlenza, Geraldo Busatto Filho
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Translational Psychiatry, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2158-3188
DOI: 10.1038/s41398-024-03154-w
Popis: Abstract Cognitive impairment and symptoms of psychiatric disorders have been reported frequently as features of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection. This study aims to investigate subjective memory complaints in COVID-19 survivors and determine if these are more strongly associated with objective cognitive impairment related to sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection or with symptoms of psychiatric conditions. A total of 608 COVID-19 survivors were evaluated in-person 6–11 months after hospitalization, with 377 patients assigned to a “no subjective memory complaint (SMC)” group and 231 patients assigned to an SMC group based on their Memory Complaint Scale scores. Follow-up evaluations included an objective cognitive battery and scale-based assessments of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress symptoms. We found the perception of memory impairment in COVID-19 survivors to be more strongly associated to core symptoms of psychiatric conditions rather than to primary objective cognitive impairment. Univariate analysis indicated significant differences between the “no SMC” and SMC groups, both for the psychiatric symptom evaluations and for the cognitive evaluations (p
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