Does informing people about modifiable dementia risk factors lead to improved behavioral risk profiles?
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Background The Island Study Linking Ageing and Neurodegenerative Disease (ISLAND) is a large, online, prospective public health cohort study with nested interventions targeting modifiable dementia risk. objective of ISLAND to investigate the effectiveness strategies aimed at increasing knowledge about behavioral lifestyle factors associated dementia, encourage behavior change reduce future risk profiles individual population level. Method Commencing October 2019, Tasmanian residents aged 50 over were invited via rolling media campaign join ISLAND. Online surveys administered baseline repeated annually enable tracking changes in physical mental health, social functioning, knowledge, motivations behaviors. After each survey wave, participants provided personal Dementia Risk Profile (DRP), traffic-light style report their own level against nine domains, together WHO recommendations for achieving ‘low risk’ status. For analyses, DRP provides domain scores cumulative score, computed by summing (low = 0, medium 0.5, high 1). Newsletters information included prompts PD-MOOC, free, 4-week online course preventing which runs three times year. Result Participants who full data 2021 annual (n 2,935) reported significant moderate-sized reduction (βs -.36 [95%CI -.40, -.31]. Within this sample, engaged PD-MOOC (1,208, 42%) small additional independent benefit -.08 [95%CI-.11, -.05]). General increased across all respondents .11 .06, .15]) amongst participants, effect was stronger .61 .53, .70]). results mediation models testing role observed will be presented. Conclusion These preliminary findings support core hypothesis ISLAND, that action-taking key Future work link dementia-risk patterns time cognitive blood-based markers neurodegeneration, understand long-term effects project.
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عنوان ژورنال: Alzheimers & Dementia
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1552-5260', '1552-5279']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.067022