Cognitive deficits in hospitalized and never hospitalized remitted unipolar depressive patients

Background and Objectives: Little is known about the differences between patients managing depression on an outpatient basis as compared with hospitalized ones. This study investigated the performance of attention, executive function and verbal memory during remission from unipolar depressive episod...

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Published inThe European journal of psychiatry Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 129 - 135
Main Authors PREISS, Marek, KUCEROVA, Hana, LUKAVSKY, Jiri, SOS, Petr, STEPANKOVA, Hana, CERMAKOVA, Radka
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Portuguese
Published Saragosse INO 01.09.2010
Universidad de Zaragoza
Subjects
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Behavioral Sciences
Biological and medical sciences
Depression
Institution therapy. Inpatient treatment
Medical sciences
Mood disorders
Neurosciences
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Treatments
Mood disorder
Human
Executive function
Cognitive disorder
Attention
Depression
Cognition
Hospitalization
Verbal memory
Treatment
Language
Course of illness
Cross sectional study
Outcome
Evolution
Remission
Major depressive episode
Cognitive function
Antecedent
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Summary:Background and Objectives: Little is known about the differences between patients managing depression on an outpatient basis as compared with hospitalized ones. This study investigated the performance of attention, executive function and verbal memory during remission from unipolar depressive episodes and compare patients with and without history of hospitalization. Methods: The sample of participants who had undergone one or more hospitalizations (hospitalized, N = 46) as well as in a sample without hospitalization (never hospitalized, N = 46) and controls (N = 92) were used. The Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT) and the Trail Making Test (TMT) were administrated to test this hypothesis. Results and conclusion: The hospitalized sample had similar results in all four neuropsychological variables in comparison with the never hospitalized group, and both groups had some lower results in comparison with controls. In comparison with the controls, hospitalized sample had mean cognitive deficits of 34% (28-41%), the never hospitalized group had a mean of 20% (21-35%). Contrary to previous reports we have found no meaningful differences between the two patient groups.
ISSN:0213-6163
2340-4469
DOI:10.4321/S0213-61632010000300001