| Abstract [eng] |
The relationship betweeDepression is a common mental illness. There are many studies about depression linking with emotional and physical factors, but only in the past decade, studies about cognition are increasing. Cognitive abilities are linked with depressiveness and play an important role in an individual's daily functions and their quality of life. Recently there has been an interest in the topic: can human subjective cognitive evaluation be trusted. This ability can be very useful when treating cognitive deficits and making diagnosis. For this reason, it is important to investigate, how depression affects cognitive abilities and the role of subjective cognition evaluation. Participants. 66 adults (18 – 60 years old), of whom 30 depressed inpatients and 36 healthy control group. Instruments. Forward and backward digit recall, Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R), Trail Making Test (TMT), Verbal fluency test (ZSPT), The Stroop Color and Word Test (SCWT), Beck’s Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) and Subjective Cognitive Evaluation scale (SKGV) designed for this study. Results. In comparison with the healthy control group, patients with depression were shown to have lowered cognitive abilities as verbal memory, information processing, task-switching ability, and categorical fluency. Furthermore, patients experiencing depression were more likely to evaluate having lowered cognitive abilities and this was influenced by higher depressiveness. The subjective cognitive evaluation correlated with recognition, information processing, task-switching ability, and inhibition. Cognitive abilities were predicted only by age and working ability – higher age was predicting lowered cognitive abilities in both – inpatient and healthy controls, while working ability was predicting task-switching ability in patients with depression. Education and the person’s working status did not have any significance. n cognitive abilities and depression in adults. |
