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Awareness of the COVID-19 Outbreak and Resultant Depressive Tendencies in Patients with Severe Alzheimer's Disease.
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease ( IF 4 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-15 , DOI: 10.3233/jad-200832
Akito Tsugawa , Shu Sakurai , Yuta Inagawa , Daisuke Hirose , Yoshitsugu Kaneko , Yusuke Ogawa , Shuntaro Serisawa , Naoto Takenoshita , Hirofumi Sakurai , Hidekazu Kanetaka , Kentaro Hirao , Soichiro Shimizu

Abstract

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has substantially affected patients with dementia and their caregivers. However, we found not all Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients were afraid of COVID-19 infection. Therefore, we investigated the association between rate of awareness of COVID-19 and depressive tendency in AD. 126 consecutive outpatients with AD were enrolled in this study from May 25, on the day when the declaration of emergency was lifted in Japan, through June 30, 2020. In addition to routine psychological tests, the participants were asked the following two questions: “Do you know COVID-19?” and “Why are you wearing a face mask?”. Moderate to severe AD patients were found to have a low COVID-19 recognition rate and did not fully understand why they were wearing face masks. In addition, because they did not understand the seriousness of the COVID-19 outbreak, their Geriatric Depression Scale scores were also substantially lower. These results may appear to simply indicate that people with severe dementia are unaware of current events. However, these results provide insights into how to care for patients with dementia and how to allocate the time and support of our limited staff during the COVID-19 outbreak.



中文翻译:

对患有严重阿尔茨海默氏病的患者的COVID-19爆发和导致的抑郁倾向的认识。

摘要

正在进行的2019年冠状病毒疾病(COVID-19)大流行已经严重影响了痴呆症患者及其护理人员。但是,我们发现并非所有的阿尔茨海默氏病(AD)患者都害怕COVID-19感染。因此,我们调查了COVID-19的知晓率与AD抑郁倾向之间的关系。从5月25日(即日本宣布紧急状态的那一天)到2020年6月30日,连续有126名AD的门诊患者参加了这项研究。除了常规的心理测试之外,还向参与者询问了以下两个问题:你知道COVID-19吗?” 和“为什么要戴口罩?”。发现中度至重度AD患者的COVID-19识别率低,并且不完全了解他们为什么戴口罩。此外,因为他们不了解COVID-19爆发的严重性,所以他们的老年抑郁量表得分也大大降低。这些结果似乎只是表明患有严重痴呆症的人没有意识到时事。但是,这些结果提供了有关在COVID-19爆发期间如何护理痴呆症患者以及如何分配时间和有限人员支持的见解。

更新日期:2020-09-20
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