- Titel
- Altered performance in attention tasks in patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis
- Untertitel
- seasonal dependency and association with disease characteristics
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-389915
- Quellenangabe
- Psychological Medicine Erscheinungsort: Cambridge
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Jahrgang: 45
Heft: 6
Seiten: 1289-1299
ISSN: 0033-2917
E-ISSN: 1469-8978 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2015
- Abstract (EN)
- Background. Seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR) is a chronic disease affecting about 23% of the European population with increasing prevalence rates. Beside classical symptoms (i.e. sneezing, nasal congestion), patients frequently complain about subjective impairments in cognitive functioning during periods of acute allergic inflammation. However, objective evidence for such deficits or the role of potential modulators and underlying mechanisms is limited. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of SAR on attention-related cognitive processes. In addition, relationships between attention performance, sleep and mood disturbances as well as specific disease characteristics as potential modulators of this link were explored. Method. SAR patients (n = 41) and non-allergic healthy controls (n = 42) completed a set of attention tasks during a symptomatic allergy period and during a non-symptomatic period. Influences of sleep, mood, total immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels and individual allergy characteristics on cognitive performance were evaluated. Results. Compared to healthy controls, SAR patients had a slower processing speed during both symptomatic and nonsymptomatic allergy periods. Additionally, they showed a more flexible adjustment in attention control, which may serve as a compensatory strategy. Reduction in processing speed was positively associated with total IgE levels whereas flexible adjustment of attention was linked with anxious mood. No association was found between SAR-related attention deficits and allergy characteristics or sleep. Conclusions. SAR represents a state that is crucially linked to impairments in information processing and changes in attentional control adjustments. These cognitive alterations are more likely to be influenced by mood and basal inflammatory processes than sleep impairments or subjective symptom severity.
- Andere Ausgabe
- Link zum Artikel der zuerst in der Zeitschrift 'Psychological Medicine' erschienen ist
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291714002384 - Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Aufmerksamkeit, kognitive Kontrolle, Immunglobulin E, Verarbeitungsgeschwindigkeit, saisonale allergische Rhinitis
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Attention, cognitive control, immunoglobulin E, processing speed, seasonal allergic rhinitis
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 610
- Verlag
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-389915
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 11.06.2020
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
