Fear of Dementia among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Germany.

IF 1.4 Q4 CLINICAL NEUROLOGY
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra Pub Date : 2024-09-12 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1159/000541066
Jan-Luca Meyer, Elzbieta Buczak-Stec, Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek
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Abstract

Introduction: The objective of this study was to clarify the frequency of fear of dementia and the factors associated with it.

Methods: Data were taken from a nationally representative sample (n = 4,000; average age was 54.9 years, SD: 8.5 years, age ranges from 40 to 70 years, 49.6% of the respondents were women). Similar to prior research, fear of dementia was quantified using a tool ranging from 1 (no fear of dementia) to 4 (severe fear of dementia).

Results: In sum, 19.0% reported no fear of dementia, 34.6% reported a little fear of dementia, 33.8% reported some fear of dementia, and 12.7% reported severe fear of dementia. Regressions showed that greater fear of dementia was significantly associated with being female, being younger, poorer self-rated health, the presence of at least one chronic disease, not living in the same household with a partner or not being in a relationship at all, having depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms.

Conclusion: Study findings showed that fear of dementia is particularly associated with health-related factors, age and gender. Lifestyle factors and other socioeconomic factors were only occasionally significant. Future research should explore the reasons for such a higher frequency of people's fear of dementia. It would also be interesting to find out new factors associated with the fear of dementia. Furthermore, further research could focus on cross-country comparisons and could stratify the results by important groups, e.g., by sex or education, but also cultural and ethnic aspects.

德国中老年人对痴呆症的恐惧。
导言本研究旨在明确人们对痴呆症的恐惧频率及其相关因素:数据来自一个具有全国代表性的样本(n = 4000;平均年龄为 54.9 岁,SD:8.5 岁,年龄在 40 岁至 70 岁之间,49.6% 的受访者为女性)。与之前的研究类似,对痴呆症的恐惧程度也采用了从 1(不恐惧痴呆症)到 4(严重恐惧痴呆症)的量化工具:总之,19.0% 的人表示不害怕痴呆症,34.6% 的人表示有点害怕痴呆症,33.8% 的人表示有点害怕痴呆症,12.7% 的人表示严重害怕痴呆症。回归结果显示,对痴呆症的恐惧与女性、年龄较小、自评健康状况较差、至少患有一种慢性疾病、未与伴侣生活在同一家庭或根本没有伴侣关系、有抑郁症状和焦虑症状有明显关联:研究结果表明,对痴呆症的恐惧尤其与健康相关因素、年龄和性别有关。生活方式因素和其他社会经济因素只是偶尔有意义。未来的研究应探讨人们对痴呆症的恐惧频率如此之高的原因。此外,找出与痴呆症恐惧相关的新因素也很有意义。此外,进一步的研究可以侧重于跨国比较,并按重要群体(如性别或教育程度,以及文化和种族方面)对结果进行分层。
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Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra Medicine-Psychiatry and Mental Health
CiteScore
4.30
自引率
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发文量
18
审稿时长
9 weeks
期刊介绍: This open access and online-only journal publishes original articles covering the entire spectrum of cognitive dysfunction such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s chorea and other neurodegenerative diseases. The journal draws from diverse related research disciplines such as psychogeriatrics, neuropsychology, clinical neurology, morphology, physiology, genetic molecular biology, pathology, biochemistry, immunology, pharmacology and pharmaceutics. Strong emphasis is placed on the publication of research findings from animal studies which are complemented by clinical and therapeutic experience to give an overall appreciation of the field. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra provides additional contents based on reviewed and accepted submissions to the main journal Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra .
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