Previously independent patients with mild-symptomatic COVID-19 are at high risk of developing cognitive impairment but not depression or anxiety.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to explore the cognitive functions of a large sample of hospitalised subjects with mild symptomatic Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) who were previously independent at home and without neurological diseases.

Methods: Patients admitted in a COVID-19 Unit for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection between November 2020 and March 2021 were recruited. Inclusion criteria were: being independent at home before the infection, radiologically confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia, positive reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction nasopharyngeal swab and no oxygen supplementation at the time of evaluation.