Quality of life, mood, and cognitive performance in older adults with cognitive impairment during the first wave of COVID 19 in Argentina

Aragón, Irina; Flores, Ignacio; Dorman, Guido; Rojas, Galeno; Sanjurjo, Natalia Sierra; O'Neill, Santiago

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“…Another factor to consider was whether living alone during COVID-19 confinement was associated with a higher prevalence of depression. Although several studies have found a significant association between depression and living alone during the pandemic [ 42 , 58 ], others have shown otherwise [ 59 , 60 ]. Our results are in line with the second ones, showing no significant differences in GDS scores.…”

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The Impact of COVID-19 Confinement on Cognition and Mental Health and Technology Use Among Socially Vulnerable Older People: Retrospective Cohort Study

Dura-Perez¹,

Goodman‐Casanova²,

Vega-Núñez³

et al. 2022

J Med Internet Res

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Background COVID-19 forced the implementation of restrictive measures in Spain, such as lockdown, home confinement, social distancing, and isolation. It is necessary to study whether limited access to basic services and decreased family and social support could have deleterious effects on cognition, quality of life, and mental health in vulnerable older people. Objective This study aims to explore the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on cognition in older adults with mild cognitive impairment or dementia as the main outcome and the quality of life, perceived health status, and depression as secondary outcomes and to analyze the association of living alone and a change in living arrangements with those outcomes and other variables related with the use of technology and health services. Likewise, this study aims to analyze the association of high and low technophilia with those variables, to explore the access and use of health care and social support services, and, finally, to explore the informative-, cognitive-, entertainment-, and socialization-related uses of information and communications technologies (ICTs) during the COVID-19 outbreak. Methods This cohort study was conducted in Málaga (Spain). In total, 151 participants with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia, from the SMART4MD (n=75, 49.7%) and TV-AssistDem (n=76, 50.3%) randomized clinical trials, were interviewed by telephone between May 11 and June 26, 2020. All participants had undergone 1-3 assessments (in 6-month intervals) on cognition, quality of life, and mood prior to the COVID-19 breakout. Results The outbreak did not significantly impact the cognition, quality of life, and mood of our study population when making comparisons with baseline assessments prior to the outbreak. Perceived stress was reported as moderate during the outbreak. After correction for multiple comparisons, living alone, a change in living arrangements, and technophilia were not associated with negative mental health outcomes. However, being alone was nominally associated with self-perceived fear and depression, and higher technophilia with better quality of life, less boredom, perceived stress and depression, and also less calmness. Overall, health care and social support service access and utilization were high. The most used ICTs during the COVID-19 outbreak were the television for informative, cognitive, and entertainment-related uses and the smartphone for socialization. Conclusions Our findings show that the first months of the outbreak did not significantly impact the cognition, quality of life, perceived health status, and depression of our study population when making comparisons with baseline assessments prior to the outbreak. Living alone and low technophilia require further research to establish whether they are risk factors of mental health problems during lockdowns in vulnerable populations. Moreover, although ICTs have proven to be useful for informative-, cognitive-, entertainment-, and socialization-related uses during the pandemic, more evidence is needed to support these interventions. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04385797; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04385797 International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) RR2-10.2196/26431

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The Impact of COVID-19 Confinement on Cognition and Mental Health and Technology Use Among Socially Vulnerable Older People: Retrospective Cohort Study

Dura-Perez¹,

Goodman‐Casanova²,

Vega-Núñez³

et al. 2022

J Med Internet Res

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“…During the medium and long period of COVID-19 lockdown measures, all groups of neurological patients exhibited a significant decline in functional and cognitive status compared to the pre-COVID period. During the medium period (5 to 8 months), three out of four studies showed adverse effects of COVID-19 lockdown measures on attention [ 46 ], and on the overall patients’ cognitive status [ 48 , 49 ], except for Ref. [ 47 ].…”

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“…Thus, the lack of social stimulation and pleasurable activities favored the onset of anxiety and depression, which, in turn, cognitively affected the progression of the disease [ 106 ]. During the first wave of COVID-19, together with a general cognitive decline, Aragón et al, 2022 [ 46 ] reported a worsening in selective attention tasks in four patients with subjective cognitive decline and forty-seven MCI participants. These tasks were appropriately designed by the authors for testing executive attention.…”

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The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures and COVID-19 Infection on Cognitive Functions: A Review in Healthy and Neurological Populations

Manfredini

Pisano

Incoccia

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected people’s mental health all over the world. This review aims to present a comprehensive overview of the literature related to the effects of COVID-19 lockdown measures and COVID-19 infection on cognitive functioning in both healthy people and people with neurological conditions by considering only standardized tests. We performed a narrative review of the literature via two databases, PUBMED and SCOPUS, from December 2019 to December 2022. In total, 62 out of 1356 articles were selected and organized into three time periods: short-term (1–4 months), medium-term (5–8 months), and long-term (9–12 months), according to the time in which the tests were performed. Regardless of the time period, most studies showed a general worsening in cognitive performance in people with neurological conditions due to COVID-19 lockdown measures and in healthy individuals recovered from COVID-19 infection. Our review is the first to highlight the importance of considering standardized tests as reliable measures to quantify the presence of cognitive deficits due to COVID-19. Indeed, we believe that they provide an objective measure of the cognitive difficulties encountered in the different populations, while allowing clinicians to plan rehabilitation treatments that can be of great help to many patients who still, nowadays, experience post-COVID-19 symptoms.

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Impactos da Covid-19 na qualidade de vida de pessoas com Alzheimer: uma revisão integrativa

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Objetivo: Discutir os impactos da pandemia da Covid-19 na vida de pessoas com Doença de Alzheimer. Métodos: Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa, realizada durante os meses de agosto a novembro de 2021. Foi realizado levantamento bibliográfico nas bases de dados: Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS), Base de Dados de Enfermagem (BDENF), Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SciELO) e Cummulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINHAL). Para a busca foram utilizados os descritores: ‘’alzheimer's’’, ‘’quality of life’’, ‘’pandemic’’ e ‘’Covid-19’’. Foram incluídos artigos elaborados com base em estudos primários, publicados nos idiomas inglês, português e espanhol, relacionados à temática investigada e sem delimitação de recorte temporal. Seis produções foram incluídas para síntese. Resultados: Os estudos evidenciaram que houve impactos negativos sobre a qualidade de vida de pessoas com Doença de Alzheimer no decorrer da pandemia da Covid-19. Considerações finais: Pessoas com Doença de Alzheimer possuem dificuldades especiais para lidar com a pandemia, assim cabe não somente aos familiares e cuidadores uma atenção redobrada, mas há também a necessidade da intervenção do poder público no estímulo de programas que atendam às necessidades desse público.

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Quality of life, mood, and cognitive performance in older adults with cognitive impairment during the first wave of COVID 19 in Argentina

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

The Impact of COVID-19 Confinement on Cognition and Mental Health and Technology Use Among Socially Vulnerable Older People: Retrospective Cohort Study

The Impact of COVID-19 Confinement on Cognition and Mental Health and Technology Use Among Socially Vulnerable Older People: Retrospective Cohort Study

The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures and COVID-19 Infection on Cognitive Functions: A Review in Healthy and Neurological Populations

Impactos da Covid-19 na qualidade de vida de pessoas com Alzheimer: uma revisão integrativa

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