Our results show an improvement of Neuropsychiatry Inventory and AD-R depression scores during hospitalization
2021
Cognitive, behavioral, and psychological manifestations of COVID-19 in post-acute rehabilitation setting: preliminary data of an observational study
Key concepts
- COVID-19
- Continuous Performance Test
- severe acute respiratory syndrome
- Mini-Mental State Examination
- Alzheimer disease
- peripheral nervous system
- SARS-CoV-2
- nervous system
- World Health Organization
- Montreal Cognitive Assessment
- Trail Making Test
- post-traumatic stress disorders
- coronavirus
- SARS CoV
- Frontal Assessment Battery
- Psychological assessment
Scholarcy highlights
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is the cause of the coronavirus disease 2019, mainly characterized by respiratory illness
- Twelve patients with COVID-19 were included in the study; they were transferred to the Physical Therapy Department of the Carlo Poma Hospital in Mantua after hospitalization for COVID-19
- Our results show an improvement of Neuropsychiatry Inventory and AD-R depression scores during hospitalization
- At the entrance in the Rehabilitation Unit, a global assessment is essential in order to plan the recovery program; assessments at discharge and at the follow-up visit are relevant to gain knowledge about possible long-term neuropsychological and psychological consequences of the COVID-19, and they are mandatory to decide post-hospitalization setting and to organize further support and assistance needs
- The choice of assessment tools should take into account the vulnerability of these patients in the immediate post-acute phase of the disease, but it does not rule out the possibility of detailed assessment at follow-up visits, when they usually have recovered part of their physical capacity
- We believe that this exploratory study could be a proposal for an assessment model of patients recovering from COVID-19 even if the discussion about times and tools for the evaluation of cognitive, behavioral, and psychological alterations in COVID-19 patients is still open to debate
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