KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND MANAGEMENT OF DEMENTIA
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Keywords
Dementia, prevalence, knowledge, outcomes
Abstract
Background: Current estimation of dementia presume that age associated prevalence of dementia will not vary over time, however, the risk of dementia increases in older people. The basis for this assumption is uncertain, and gradual increase or decrease in prevalence over long period of time is reasonable.
Primary objective: To assess the awareness, knowledge, incidence and prevalence of dementia among the “Young Educated community of Pakistan”.
Method/Design: We carried out a descriptive systemic study of trends in incidence and prevalence of dementia among the “University students of Pakistan”. A validated questionnaire was distributed among participants. The respondent’s knowledge of dementia was assessed by 30 questions designed to examine their knowledge, incidence, prevalence and treatment modalities of dementia.
Setting: The study was designed to determine the incidence and prevalence of dementia among the young educated community of Pakistan i.e., the university students.
Participants: 200 people participated in the study.
Interventions: Among the participants, 66.7% were female and 33.3% were male.
Primary outcome measures: Primary outcomes were knowledge, awareness and epidemiology.
Results: Among the 200 students who participated in the study, minority of the respondent population was going through it, 65.2% had never gone through it whereas, 30.8% of the respondents were not clear about it.
Conclusion: Population ageing seemed to play the greatest role as a cause of dementia and the incidence and prevalence of dementia among the university students was relatively low.
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Muhammad Soaib Said
Discipline of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Rabbiya Ahmad
Discipline of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Ahmed Sadiq Sheikh
Department of Pharmacy, My University Islamabad, Pakistan
Iqra Saleem
Department of Pharmacy, University of Poonch Rawalakot AJK, Pakistan
Aqdas Arshad
Mohi-ud-Din Islamic Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mirpur, AJK, Pakistan
Muhammad Nauman Arif
Margalla College of Pharmacy, Margalla Institute of Health Sciences, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Izharullah
Department of Pharmacy, My University Islamabad, Pakistan
Asif Mehmood Hashmi
Department of Pharmacy, My University Islamabad, Pakistan
Tehseen Ismail
Department of Pharmacy, Mirpur University of Science of Technology, Mirpur Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
Zobia Mubarak
Punjab University College of Pharmacy, University of Punjab, Lahore Pakistan