@article{2b223f11e20e4e3389a2c9e359770967,
title = "Racial and Ethnic Differences in Alzheimer{\textquoteright}s Disease Knowledge Among Community-Dwelling Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Florida",
abstract = "Objective: To compare Alzheimer{\textquoteright}s disease (AD) knowledge by race and ethnicity in a community sample of middle-aged and older adults aged 50 and over in Florida. Method: Data from HealthStreet, a University of Florida community engagement program, which uses community health workers to assess the health conditions, concerns, and knowledge of community members, was used (n = 842). A multivariate regression model was used to quantify differences in AD knowledge by race and ethnicity. Results: Older age and recruitment from Miami were associated with higher AD knowledge while being non-Hispanic Black, reporting male sex, having less than high school diploma, and reporting food insecurity were associated with lower AD knowledge. Discussion: Hispanics had comparable AD knowledge to non-Hispanic Whites and more knowledge than non-Hispanic Blacks after adjusting for other factors that could differentiate these groups. Almost half of the participants did not know hypertension is a risk factor for AD, highlighting a point of intervention.",
keywords = "Alzheimer{\textquoteright}s disease, Hispanics, ethnicity, health disparities",
author = "Milani, {Sadaf Arefi} and Shawnta Lloyd and Cottler, {Linda B.} and Striley, {Catherine W.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported in part through the National Institutes of Health?s Clinical and Translational Science Awards program, which is led by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1TR001427), by the Florida Alzheimer?s Disease Research Center (NIH P50 AG047266), sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, which governs Alzheimer?s Disease Research Centers through the National Alzheimer?s Coordinating Center, by the Florida Department of Health?Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer?s Disease Research Program (6AZ05), and by the Department of Epidemiology with funding from the College of Medicine and College of Public Health and Health Professions. Sadaf Arefi Milani was funded by the Graduate School Fellowship at the University of Florida for a portion of this work and is currently funded through the Training Grant T32AG000270 (PI Wong) from the National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health. Shawnta Lloyd is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse T32 training grant at the University of Florida Substance Abuse Training Center in Public Health from the National Institutes of Health (T32DA035167). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official view of the National Institutes of Health. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2019.",
year = "2020",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0898264319838366",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "32",
pages = "564--572",
journal = "Journal of Aging and Health",
issn = "0898-2643",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "7-8",
}