Public knowledge of late-life cognitive decline and dementia in an international sample.
Alzheimer's disease
Amazon's Mechanical Turk
dementia
dementia knowledge
developing nations
ethnic minority issues
health literacy
healthcare policy
survey
Journal
Dementia (London, England)
ISSN: 1741-2684
Titre abrégé: Dementia (London)
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101128698
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2020
Aug 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
13
10
2018
medline:
14
7
2021
entrez:
13
10
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
One method of mitigating global increases in dementia prevalence involves assessing public knowledge and then educating laypeople. We measured knowledge of late-life pathological cognitive decline in a diverse, international sample using a standardized, validated instrument. Results suggested that the following sociodemographic variables are associated with less overall knowledge: young age, male gender, low educational attainment, born in a developing nation, of ethnic minority status, not married, and less prior dementia experience. Specific knowledge gaps emerged in cerebrovascular disease, delirium versus dementia, treatment of behavioral dementia symptoms, Alzheimer's disease genetics, Parkinson's disease symptoms, and characteristics of chronic traumatic encephalopathy and subjective cognitive decline.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
OBJECTIVE
One method of mitigating global increases in dementia prevalence involves assessing public knowledge and then educating laypeople. We measured knowledge of late-life pathological cognitive decline in a diverse, international sample using a standardized, validated instrument.
RESULTS
RESULTS
Results suggested that the following sociodemographic variables are associated with less overall knowledge: young age, male gender, low educational attainment, born in a developing nation, of ethnic minority status, not married, and less prior dementia experience. Specific knowledge gaps emerged in cerebrovascular disease, delirium versus dementia, treatment of behavioral dementia symptoms, Alzheimer's disease genetics, Parkinson's disease symptoms, and characteristics of chronic traumatic encephalopathy and subjective cognitive decline.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30309254
doi: 10.1177/1471301218805923
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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