The situation of cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease patients treatment in Thai Binh Hospital 2021 - 2022 and several related factors

Abstract

Parkinson’s disease is a central nervous system degeneration disease, cognitive impairment is a fairly common symptom and an important part of the clinical symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The aim of this research is describe the situation of cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease patients treatment in Thai Binh Hospital 2021 - 2022 and several related factors. A cross-sectional descriptive study was performed on 148 Parkinson’s disease patients at the Department of Neurology, Thaibinh General Hospital. The results showed that the rate of depression in Parkinson’s patients was 52.7% and mainly mild depression, the common age group was 65 - 79 years old, the proportion of men similar to women. In this research, the average MMSE score was 26.81 ± 4.818, the rate of cognitive decline in Parkinson’s patients were 23.6%. The prevalence of depression is high in the group with severity according to the Hoehn-Yahr and UPDRS classifications, and the level of cognitive impairment increased in patients with Parkinson’s disease have depression symptom. The an awareness in the most affected is word memory and daily functioning.