Abstract
BackgroundThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) has been spreading worldwide and affecting people of all the age groups. Recent studies are claiming that it causes brain fog state in patients. The elderly are more prevalent in this disorder because of higher medical comorbidities and resulting in cognitive impairments.MethodThe present study has taken 2 cases of dementia of Alzheimer’s disease patients with Covid 19 positive as experimental and 2 cases of Alzheimer’s disease patients with Covid 19 negative as control group. A video interview has been structured with few questions to assess their cognitive perspective on Covid 19. They have been matched on cognitive status using Hindi‐ mini Mental State Examination and Cognitive Failure questionnaire. After a period of two month they have been interviewed again to compare the changes.ResultThe findings of the present study revealed a differences in the scores of Cognitive Failure Questionnaire in experimental group as compared to control group.ConclusionThe study showed that there was an effect of Covid 19 on cognitive status of cases of dementia of Alzheimer’s disease patients with Covid 19 positive as compared to dementia of Alzheimer’s disease patients with Covid 19 negative cases.
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