Self-report and objective measures of cognitive deficit in patients entering substance abuse treatment.
The relationship between self-reported cognitive deficits and objectively measured cognitive performance was examined in 86 patients entering substance abuse treatment. Self-ratings of cognitive impairment were strongly correlated with indices of depression and vulnerability to stress, but not with objective cognitive performance. Confirming the lack of relationship between self-report and objective cognitive measures, cognitive performance did not differ between patients at the extremes of the cognitive-complaint distribution; and cognitively impaired patients did not differ from cognitively intact patients in their self-ratings of impairment.
Horner
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MD
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425-0742, USA. hornermd@musc.edu
Harvey
R T
RT
Denier
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CA
D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications; D017831:Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry); D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012647:Self-Assessment; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis