Self-report and objective measures of cognitive deficit in patients entering substance abuse treatment

The relationship between self-reported cognitive deficits and objectively m easured cognitive performance was examined in 86 patients entering substanc e abuse treatment. Self-ratings of cognitive impairment were strongly corre lated with indices of depression and vulnerability to stress, but not with objective cognitive performance. Confirming the lack of relationship betwee n self-report and objective cognitive measures, cognitive performance did n ot differ between patients at the extremes of the cognitive-complaint distr ibution; and cognitively impaired patients did not differ from cognitively intact patients in their self-ratings of impairment. (C) 1999 Elsevier Scie nce Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.