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The development of Attitudes of People from Ethnic Minorities to Help-seeking for Dementia (APEND)
— a questionnaire to measure attitudes to help-seeking for dementia in people from South Asian backgrounds in the UK | | Author(s) | Julia Hailstone, Nasheed Mukadam, Tamsin Owen, Claudia Cooper, Gill Livingston |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 32, no 3, March 2017 |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell, March 2017 |
| Pages | pp 288-296 |
| Source | www.orangejournal.org |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Ethnic groups [elderly] ; Asian people ; Usage [services] ; Attitude ; Qualitative Studies ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | People from South Asian backgrounds present to dementia services relatively late, often responding to crises. The authors aimed to devise and validate a theory of planned behaviour questionnaire to measure attitudes that predict medical help-seeking for UK-based South Asian people, to assess the effectiveness of future interventions promoting earlier help-seeking. Focus groups were used to establish the content validity of culturally relevant questionnaire items, then participants were asked to complete the questionnaire. The authors analysed reliability and validity and established the concurrent validity of questionnaire attitudes through correlation with willingness to seek help from a doctor for memory problems. They also correlated the scale with knowledge of dementia. The strongest predictor of willingness to seek help was perceived social pressure from significant others around help-seeking; these attitudes were associated with beliefs about the views of family members and embarrassment around help-seeking. Willingness to seek help was also strongly associated with attitudes about the benefits of seeing a doctor for memory problems, attitudes that were related to specific beliefs about what doctors can do to help. Attitudes in the questionnaire predicted 77% of variance in willingness to seek help, but no relationship was found with dementia knowledge. The authors present the Attitudes of People from Ethnic Minorities to Help-Seeking for Dementia (APEND) questionnaire, a valid and reliable measure of attitudes that influence help-seeking for dementia in people from South Asian backgrounds, which could assess the impact of intervention studies. It is suggested that interventions target attitudes specified here, rather than dementia knowledge. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170224232 A |
| Classmark | EA: F:TK: TKK: QLD: DP: 3DP: 8 |
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