International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Open Access
ISSN: 2329-9096
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2329-9096
+44 1300 500008
Parag Sawant
Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, India
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Int J Phys Med Rehabil
Chronic alcoholics suffer from cognitive impairment, thereby affecting their ADL and work performance. The objective was to screen chronic alcoholics for cognitive impairment and assessing affectations in various components of MoCA and early screening to help them from further deterioration in ADL and work. In this case control study, 50 chronic alcoholics, males, age group 30-50 years, abstaining for more than two months, referred to outpatient De-addiction Occupational Therapy Department of K E M Hospital, Mumbai were screened using MoCA (Hindi) and compared with their age matched control group. As a result, all patients showed mild cognitive impairment on MoCA; irrespective of pattern and frequency of drinking. Their average mean score in MoCA in test and control group was 21.02 and 26.03 respectively. The domains more affected were language, abstraction and memory; thus affect their performance in ADL and work. Results were analysed using Unpaired t-test and were statistically significant at the level of P<0.05 and 95% confidence level. Thus, it can be concluded that screening of chronic alcoholics using MoCA showed mild cognitive impairment with varying degree of affectations in the sub components of the test in the study population.
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