The Effect of Cognitive Intervention on Cognitive Improvement in Patients with Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

The effect of cognitive intervention in patients with dementia is inconsistent. This study sought to find out the effect of cognitive intervention by measuring interval change between before and after intervention.

Methods

We evaluated cognitive changes according to clinical diagnostic group across Gangwon province for 940 patients with dementia diagnosed at hospital clinics and 2,975 subjects without dementia. All subjects were treated with cognitive intervention. They underwent a cognitive and mood assessment before and after intervention. We used interval change of Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores as a primary measure of interventional outcome.

Results

Changes in mean MMSE score were significantly different between the non-dementia

SUBMITTER: Jo K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6427996 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature