Priyamvada Richa, Ranjan Rupesh, Chaudhury Suprakash
Post Doctoral Fellow (UGC), Department of Psychology, Patna University, Patna, India.
Department of Psychiatry, Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Ind Psychiatry J. 2015 Jan-Jun;24(1):48-53. doi: 10.4103/0972-6748.160932.
Cognitive deficits are an important component of depression and may remain impaired after recovery from depression.
To evaluate the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation in depression on cognitive dysfunction in the area of attention and memory.
The study was hospital based pre- and post-intervention with follow-up assessment design. Selection of the depressive patients was by purposive sampling. The sample size consists of 30 intervention depressive patients included in the study after giving written informed consent. After preassessment, all patients underwent 15 sessions as part of cognitive rehabilitation. Postassessment was done to see the outcome of cognitive rehabilitation after 3 months follow-up.
After the intervention, there was significant improvement in attention and memory area. Along with these deficits, their basic living skills were also improved.
Cognitive rehabilitation techniques are useful in remediating cognitive dysfunction in the area of attention and memory in patients with depression.
认知缺陷是抑郁症的一个重要组成部分,并且在抑郁症康复后可能仍会受损。
评估抑郁症认知康复对注意力和记忆领域认知功能障碍的疗效。
该研究采用基于医院的干预前后及随访评估设计。通过目的抽样选择抑郁症患者。样本量包括30名干预性抑郁症患者,这些患者在签署书面知情同意书后纳入研究。在进行预评估后,所有患者接受了15次认知康复治疗。3个月随访后进行后评估以观察认知康复的效果。
干预后,注意力和记忆领域有显著改善。随着这些缺陷的改善,他们的基本生活技能也得到了提高。
认知康复技术有助于改善抑郁症患者注意力和记忆领域的认知功能障碍。