Estudo cognitivo em sujeitos com esquizofrenia de um Centro de Atendimento Psicossocial (CAPS)

This research aims at identifying the main mathematical cognition deficits in 17 subjects diagnosed with schizophrenia. These subjects participated in a Psychosocial Care Center (Caps) therapeutic group from a city of Rio Grande do Sul. The Caps perspective is based on treatment and recovery of basic cognition factors, which influence the daily activities, the family social environment. This is a research of qualitative, descriptive, cross-sectional approach based on the mathematical instrument of the Literacy Brazilian Program. It emerged from the obtained results four categories guided by the analysis matrix, which indicates that the subjects have cognitive deficits, which could cause significant impacts on their daily life. They presented difficulties in all categories, but the biggest deficit was revealed in the Category IV, which involved a higher degree of complexity, encompassing questions with more than one mathematical operation, inverse operations and number writing with intermediate zero. It was possible to verify after the test performed that 62.74% of the subjects have the ability to solve simple questions, such as adding small quantities and identifying numbers, however only 32.35% of the subjects could solve questions with more than one mathematical operation or higher complexity, which indicates low autonomy index regarding the subjects investigated to solve daily problems.