TY - JOUR
T1 - The power of knowledge about dementia in Latin America across health professionals working on aging
AU - Ibanez, Agustin
AU - Flichtentrei, Daniel
AU - Hesse, Eugenia
AU - Dottori, Martin
AU - Tomio, Ailin
AU - Slachevsky, Andrea
AU - Serrano, Cecilia M.
AU - Gonzalez-Billaut, Christian
AU - Custodio, Nilton
AU - Miranda, Claudia
AU - Bustin, Julian
AU - Cetckovitch, Marcelo
AU - Torrente, Fernando
AU - Olavarria, Loreto
AU - Leon, Tomas
AU - Beber, Barbara Costa
AU - Bruki, Sonia
AU - Suemoto, Claudia K.
AU - Nitrini, Ricardo
AU - Miller, Bruce L.
AU - Yokoyama, Jennifer S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Alzheimer's Association
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Latin American and Caribbean countries
KW - behavioral insights
KW - data-sharing platforms
KW - diagnosis manuals
KW - expert knowledge
KW - public policy
KW - stigma
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U2 - 10.1002/dad2.12117
DO - 10.1002/dad2.12117
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100452877
SN - 2352-8729
VL - 12
JO - Alzheimer's and Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring
JF - Alzheimer's and Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring
IS - 1
M1 - e12117
ER -