Stroke patients; assessment of cognitive impairment

To assess the cognitive impairment in stroke patients. Observational study. Department of Medicine, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Hospital Jamshoro and Hyderabad. 01[st]August 2013 to 1[st]Feburary 2014. One hundredpatients with the established diagnosis of cerebrovascular accident [CVA]or stroke were recruited by purposive sampling technique after obtaining a well informed consent. Socio-demographic data on a semi-structured proforma were recorded. Mini-Mental State Examination test was used to assess the cognitive impairment. Cognitive impairment was found in all the patients with stroke. Moderate cognitive impairment was found in 57%, mild cognitive impairment in 29% and severe cognitive impairment in 14% of stroke patients. Cognitive impairment was present in almost all the stroke patients and we noticed that moderate cognitive impairment was very common