A Survey on Knowledge Regarding Alzheimer's Disease among University Students in Dhaka City

Abstract

Alzheimer disease is one of the most common mental disorder among the people in worldwide. The main objective of the study was to find out the level of knowledge related to AD including risk factors, sign and symptoms, concern about getting AD, Stages of AD and treatment regarding AD among students of different levels. In this study, total number of participant participated was four hundred and eleven. Among them majority of the students are graduate. Though majority of them are graduate one third portion don’t know even the term. And the rest two third portion don’t have clear idea about this.About 86.39% don’t have any idea about the stage of AD. It was seen that among all the symptom most of students had selected memory loss (13.51%), confusion with place and people (12.19%), difficulty planning or solving problems (11.63%).Among all the symptom most of students had selected traumatic brain injury, Age, Stress and Genetics. 29.24% strongly agree about the chances of getting AD, 35.59% somewhat agree, 25.42% neither agree nor disagree. The participants relation with affected person maximum is not a first degree relative 87.5%.Most of them think that there are no specific treatment of AD but if the patient pass busy time with brain related works it can be a protective factor.Overall finding suggests that the knowledge about risk factors, protective factors and sign and symptom among mass people concerning AD was relatively poor and need to improve. So some steps should be taken with the help of professionals to make them aware of this mental disorder.