1. Memória, atenção, habilidades visuoconstrutivas e fatores associados em indivíduos com esquizofrenia em tratamento em hospital-dia.
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Leite Fernandes, Rafael, Santana Santos, Beatriz Dárk, Oliveira Brito, Bruna Andrade, Navarro, Lívia, and Boa Sorte, Ney
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EXECUTIVE function , *COGNITIVE ability , *AUDITORY learning , *VERBAL learning , *RECOLLECTION (Psychology) , *MNEMONICS - Abstract
Schizophrenia is associated with cognitive deficits that may compromise functional capacity. Although there are few studies with validated instruments in Brazil, the literature indicates changes in memory, attention, visuoconstruction and executive functions. Thus, this study aims to characterize these functions in this group, besides verifying the association between cognitive performance and sociodemographic, diagnostic and therapeutic characteristics. This is a cross-sectional study with 62 individuals, who were submitted to the Rey Verbal Auditory Learning Test (RAVLT), Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figures (FCRO), WAIS-III Digits and Cubes subtests, and the Colored Trails Test (TTC). The association between the presence of deficit and the variables was verified by chi-square or fisher's exact test. It was found that 50% of the subjects presented below average performance in Cubes and 19.4% in Digits. Therefore, 85.48% had a lower than expected z-score in the RAVLT learning index, 30.7% low recognition rate, 51.6% suffered a strong influence of retroactive interference, 32.3% had a broad impact of proactive interference and a high rate of forgetfulness. In the TTC, most participants were in the lower range in form 1 (54.8%) and 43.6% had below average yields in form 2. In the case of correlations with the variables, a borderline or statistically significant influence was observed between schooling, the Digits test and the 5 factors analyzed by the RAVLT, associations between the time of diagnosis and learning capacity, correlations between the age of diagnosis and the retroactive interference index, as well as the influence of the type of medication on the proactive interference index. The results indicate a notorious occurrence of mnemonic, attentive and visuoconstructive difficulties in this population. Additionally, shorter schooling, longer disease time and earlier age of diagnosis seem to cause worse performances in working memory, attention and processes adjacent to learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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