Adolescents’ knowledge regarding Alzheimer’s disease is declining: An international study

Roitblat Y. Faridnia E. Morgan A. Nehuliaieva L. Mametov K. Nazarova N.Z. Shterenshis M.
2025 Routledge

Educational Gerontology
2025 #51 Issue 7 774 - 784 pp.

To improve school-based mental health literacy programs, we assessed adolescents’ familiarity with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We investigated the frequency of their contact with AD and their knowledge of the disorder. This comparative international randomized prospective study involved high school-based samples from eight countries (sample type: simple random; sampling unit: school/class). The questionnaire checked the contacts with persons with AD and had 10 statements to be labeled as true or false. The study was carried out among randomly selected 14,000 students from 2019 to 2023; 3,608 students indicated a lack of knowledge about AD (total n = 17,608). About 52% of the participants (n = 7,287) contacted persons with AD. With a maximum score of 10, the average score was 6.2 ± 0.9. The scores varied from 5.2 (Kazakhstan) to 7.0 (Australia). If the whole cohort of 17,608 students is analyzed, the average score was 5.1 ± 1.2 and varied from 3.6 for Kazakhstan to 6.1 for Australia. These scores declined from 2019–20 to 2023–24 school years. Although high school students had some knowledge about AD, existing educational programs may be amended to improve knowledge about the disorder, which may include information about the epidemiology, the possibility for early onset, and the female sex as a risk factor.

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Science Research Department, Alexander Muss High School in Israel (AMHSI), Alexander Muss Institute for Israel Education (AMIIE), Hod HaSharon, Israel
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Science Research Department, Milken Community High School, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Faculty of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
Science Research Department, Prospect Medical Kaspian, Aksai, Kazakhstan
Gerontology Department, Andrei Krupynskyi Lviv Medical Academy, Lviv, Ukraine
Gerontology Department, Crimean Republican Center for Disaster Medicine and Emergency Medical Aid, Simferopol, Russian Federation
Science Research, Tashkent Medical Academy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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Gerontology Department
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