CLINICAL DESCRIPTION OF COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER

Nguyễn Thị Cẩm Tú1,, Dương Minh Tâm2,3
1 National Psychiatric Hospital No1
2 National Mental Health Institute, Bach Mai Hospital
3 Hanoi Medical University

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We performed a study with the objective of clinical description of cognitive dysfunction in patients with schizoaffective disorder (SAD) inpatient treated at the Central Psychiatric Hospital I by descriptive cross-sectional study of 61 inpatients with ICD-10 diagnosis of SAD (F25). The results showed that: The average age of the study group was 38±12.1; The rate of male is 68.9% and female is 31.1%. Percentage of cognitive disorders: 59.02%; the rate of memory disorder is 63.9%; attention disorder was 44.3% and executive dysfunction was 62.3%. In attention dysfunction, the rate of alternating attention disorder is the highest with 86.1%, followed by 52.8% sustained attention and 41.7% patients with reduced focus attention. Memory function with delayed recall is disordered with 83.3%, visual memory disorder is 72.2%, immediate memory is 66.7%, verbal memory is 50%. Regarding to executive function, psychomotor speed decreased up to 83.3%, then planning ability 80.6% and visual construction ability 75%, organizing work 69.4%; problem-solving ability, fluency accounted for 63.9% and 61.1% respectively; Computational ability and language are at about 58.3% and abstract thinking has 38.9% disorder.

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