The power of knowledge about dementia in Latin America across health professionals working on aging

Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring

Cecilia M Serrano¹  Barbara Costa Beber²  Claudia K. Suemoto³  Ricardo Nitrini³  Sonia Bruki³  Claudia Miranda⁴  Christian Gonzalez‐Billaut⁵  Bruce L. Miller⁶  Jennifer S. Yokoyama⁶  Agustin Ibanez⁶  Marcelo Cetckovitch⁷  Julian Bustin⁷  Fernando Torrente⁷  Daniel Flichtentrei⁸  Loreto Olavarria⁹  Andrea Slachevsky⁹  Tomas Leon⁹  Nilton Custodio^1,10  Eugenia Hesse^1,11  Ailin Tomio^1,11  Martin Dottori^1,11 

[1] Cognitive Neurology, Neurology Department Dr César Milstein Hospital Buenos Aires Argentina;Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA) Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health Porto Alegre Brazil;Faculdade de Medicina Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil;Faculty of Nursing Universidad Andres Bello Santiago Chile;Geroscience Center for Brain Health and Metabolism (GERO), Faculty of Medicine University of Chile Santiago Chile;Global Brain Health Institute and the Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Department of Neurology University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco California USA;Institute of Translational and Cognitive Neuroscience (INCYT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) Buenos Aires Argentina;Intramed Buenos Aires Argentina;Memory and Neuropsychiatric Clinic (CMYN), Neurology Department Del Salvador Hospital and University of Chile Faculty of Medicine Santiago Chile;Unit Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Prevention, Cognitive Neurology Center Peruvian Institute of Neurosciences Lima Perú;Universidad de San Andrés Buenos Aires Argentina;

关键词: behavioral insights;    data‐sharing platforms;    diagnosis manuals;    expert knowledge;    Latin American and Caribbean countries;    public policy;   

DOI  :  10.1002/dad2.12117

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract Introduction Expert knowledge is critical to fight dementia in inequitable regions like Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs). However, the opinions of aging experts on public policies’ accessibility and transmission, stigma, diagnostic manuals, data‐sharing platforms, and use of behavioral insights (BIs) are not well known. Methods We investigated opinions among health professionals working on aging in LACs (N = 3365) with regression models including expertise‐related information (public policies, BI), individual differences (work, age, academic degree), and location. Results Experts specified low public policy knowledge (X2 = 41.27, P < .001), high levels of stigma (X2 = 2636.37, P < .001), almost absent BI knowledge (X2 = 56.58, P < .001), and needs for regional diagnostic manuals (X2 = 2893.63, df = 3, P < .001) and data‐sharing platforms (X2 = 1267.5, df = 3, P < .001). Lack of dementia knowledge was modulated by different factors. An implemented BI‐based treatment for a proposed prevention program improved perception across experts. Discussion Our findings help to prioritize future potential actions of governmental agencies and non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) to improve LACs’ dementia knowledge.

【 授权许可】

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