Samuel S Badalian, Vatche A Minassian
Establishing urogynecology subspecialty in Armenia: The Armenia project
International urogynecology journal
certain racialethnic minority groups higher risk developing dementia yet studies demonstrated often limited knowledge understanding disease increasing number educational advocacy programs developed promote dementia knowledge aimed assessing current evidence quality regarding educational interventions promoting dementia knowledge searched intervention studies published english focused educational interventions promoting dementia knowledge among racialethnic minority groups identified 25 relevant studies pubmed psycinfo cinahl scopus using tailored search terms screened titles abstracts reviewed full texts synthesized relevant evidence evaluated studies quality based mixed methods appraisal tool relevant intervention studies took place communities hospitals clinics schools online studies conducted united states n 21 followed uk n 3 half studies included asianpacific islander groups n 14 followed black groups n 12 hispanic groups n 11 intervention delivery mode varied across studiesfrom workshops hosted faith community talk shows youtube target populations included middleaged older adults caregivers family members health students professionals elementary school students common content included symptoms signs dementia protective risk factors local resources assessment study outcomes varied across studies improvement dementia knowledge attitudes towards dementia reported many studies among included studies intervention satisfaction high overall quality interventions low formally evaluated educational interventions promoting dementia knowledge early stage existing published interventions showed adequate acceptability promise promoting better understanding awareness dementia minority groups welldesigned randomized controlled trials needed