Preliminary survey on cognitive function of AIDS patients in Guangxi area / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand the cognitive function of the patientwith acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Guangxi are.MethodEighty caseof AIDconfirmed by laboratory in the Nanning Fourth People′Hospital were selected athe patientgroup ;athe same time 88 individualwithouthe dangeroubehaviorwithin 3 monthwhich could cause human im-munodeficiency virus(HIV) infection and with negative anti-HIV antibody detection were selected from the accompanying family memberathe control group .The Chinese translation version of the Montreal cognitive assessmenscale (MoCA) waadopted to conducthe investigation and evaluation on the cognition function in the two group.ResultThe total score span in the patientgroup wa2-29 pointwith the average of (20 .04 ± 6 .13) point,of normal cognitive function and 48 cases(60 .00% ) of cognitive impairmen;the total score span in the control group wa17-29 pointwith the average of (25 .02 ± 2 .98) point,of normal cogni-tive function and 6 cases(6 .82% ) of cognitive impairmen.The scoreof MoCtotal score ,visual and execution ,naming ,delayed recall ,attention ,abstraction and orientation in the patientgroup were lowethan those in the control group ,the differencebetween the two groupwere statistically significan(P＜0 .01) .The personnel distribution and proportion in the variouscore segmenta-tionhad statistical differencebetween the two group(P＜0 .05) .The factorof gende,age and educational level were performed the Logistiregression analysi,the resultshowed thaonly the educational level wathe influencing facto.Conclusion Differendegreeof cognitive impairmenexisin the AIDpatientand the educational level may be factoaffecting the scale score .