A Direct Comparison of Popular Models of Normal Memory Loss and Alzheimer's Disease in Samples of African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Refugees and Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union
作者： Robert W. Schrauf , Madelyn Iris
DOI: 10.1111/J.1532-5415.2011.03361.X
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摘要: OBJECTIVES: To understand how people differentiate normal memory loss from Alzheimer's disease (AD) by investigating cultural models of these conditions. DESIGN: Ethnographic interviews followed a survey. Cultural consensus analysis was used to test for the presence group models, derive �culturally correct� set beliefs, and compare AD. SETTING: Chicago, Illinois. PARTICIPANTS: One hundred eight individuals local neighborhoods: African Americans, Mexican refugees immigrants former Soviet Union. MEASUREMENTS: Participants responded yes-or-no questions about nature causes AD provided information on ethnicity, age, sex, acculturation, experience with AD. RESULTS: Groups held common model as brain-based reflecting irreversible cognitive decline. Higher levels acculturation predicted greater knowledge AD. Russian speakers favored biological over psychological disease. also loss, including important belief that �normal� forgetting involves eventual recall forgotten material. CONCLUSION: Popular confirm patients clinicians are speaking same �language� in their discussions Nevertheless, coherent AD, unequal distribution across groups, suggests should include wider circles patients' families friends consultations. These results frame distributed social groups rather than simply possession individual minds.
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