Prevalence and trajectories of subjective cognitive complaints and implications for patient outcomes: a prospective study of haemodialysis patients

Cognitive impairment is common in haemodialysis patients and is associated with increased hospitalization and mortality. However, subjective cognitive complaints (SCCs), the self-experienced difficulties in everyday cognitive activities, remain poorly understood. This study examined the prevalence and course of SCCs in haemodialysis patients and its longitudinal associations with sociodemographic, clinical and patient-reported variables. Ministry of Education (MOE) The study was funded by the National Kidney Foundation Singapore Research Fund (NKFRC2008/07/24) and Ministry of Education-National University of Singapore Academic Research Fund (FY2007-FRC5-006). Dr. Griva received research funding from National Kidney Foundation Singapore. The funding sources had no role in the study design, recruitment of patients, data collection, analysis, interpretation of the results, writing of the manuscript or decision to submit the manuscript for publicationn.