Cardiac arrest survivors' self-reported cognitive function, and its association with self-reported health status, psychological distress, and life satisfaction-a Swedish nationwide registry study.

IF 6.5 1区医学 Q1 CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Resuscitation Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2025.110550

Karin Larsson, Carina Hjelm, Anna Strömberg, Johan Israelsson, Anders Bremer, Jens Agerström, Nina Carlsson, Dionysia Tsoukala, Erik Blennow Nordström, Kristofer Årestedt

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Abstract

Aim: Self-reported cognitive function has been described as an important complement to performance-based measurements but has seldom been investigated in cardiac arrest (CA) survivors. Therefore, the aim was to describe self-reported cognitive function and its association with health status, psychological distress, and life satisfaction.

Methods: This study utilised data from the Swedish Register of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (2018-2021), registered 3-6 months post-CA. Cognitive function was assessed by a single question: "How do you experience your memory, concentration, and/or planning abilities today compared to before the cardiac arrest?". Health status was measured using the EQ VAS, psychological distress with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and overall life satisfaction with the Life Satisfaction checklist. Data were analysed using binary logistic regression.

Results: Among 4027 identified survivors, 1254 fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The mean age was 65.9 years (SD=13.4) and 31.7% were female. Self-reported cognitive function among survivors was reported as: 'Much worse' by 3.1%, 'Worse' by 23.8%, 'Unchanged' by 68.3%, 'Better' by 3.3%, and 'Much better' by 1.5%. Declined cognitive function was associated with lower health status (OR=2.76, 95%CI=2.09-3.64), symptoms of anxiety (OR=3.84, 95%CI=2.80-5.24) and depression (OR=4.52, 95%CI=3.22-6.32), and being dissatisfied with overall life (OR=2.74, 95%CI=2.11-3.54). These associations remained significant after age, sex, place of CA, aetiology, initial rhythm, initial witnessed status, and cerebral performance were controlled.

Conclusions: Survivors experiencing declined cognitive function post-CA are at a higher risk of poorer health status, increased psychological distress, and reduced life satisfaction, and these risks should be acknowledged by healthcare professionals.

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Resuscitation 医学-急救医学

CiteScore

12.00

自引率

18.50%

发文量

556

审稿时长

21 days

期刊介绍： Resuscitation is a monthly international and interdisciplinary medical journal. The papers published deal with the aetiology, pathophysiology and prevention of cardiac arrest, resuscitation training, clinical resuscitation, and experimental resuscitation research, although papers relating to animal studies will be published only if they are of exceptional interest and related directly to clinical cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Papers relating to trauma are published occasionally but the majority of these concern traumatic cardiac arrest.