[Objective and subjective prospective memory in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis].

INTRODUCTION

prospective memory is the ability to remember actions in the future or remember delayed intentions.

OBJECTIVE

to study the relationship between prospective memory complaints with an objective measure of prospective memory and affective-emotional variables such as depression and anxiety.

SUBJECTS AND MATERIALS

51 patients with multiple sclerosis relapsing-remitting and 46 participants in the control group were evaluated with a prospective memory task called El Condor, a questionnaire on subjective complaints of prospective memory, a depression inventory and an anxiety inventory.

RESULTS

the control group performed better in El Condor than patients with multiple sclerosis, t = 6263, df = 95, p = 0.000. The prospective memory questionnaire correlated with the depression and the anxiety inventories, but not with El Condor.

CONCLUSIONS

subjective prospective memory is associated with depression and anxiety and not with the objective prospective memory in a group of multiple sclerosis patients. The results indicate that the subjective and objective prospective memory must be studied as separate entities or different phenomena.