About this trial
clinical evaluation of the prevalence and severity of cognitive impairment among patients after ischemic and haemorrhagic stroke admitted to the Neuropsychiatry department
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
None
Disqualifiers
Age above 60 years, refusal to participate in the study, pre-existing dementia or significant psychiatric illness, severe aphasia or communication deficits precluding cognitive testing or severe comorbid condition limiting follow-ups, systemic diseases that are known to affect the central nervous system, such as (thyroid dysfunction, chronic infections, or system failure like liver or renal failure), significant sensory impairment (deafness and blindness), history of malignancy and those who have had neurosurgical procedures or severe head trauma at any time before a stroke.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Cognitive assessment: Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Cognitive Assessment for Stroke patients, Oxford cognitive screening, Trail Making Test B, Digit Span-Backward, verbal fluency, Clinical Dem