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Importance of increasing modifiable risk factors knowledge on Alzheimer's Disease among community pharmacists and general practitioners in Spain


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Título : Importance of increasing modifiable risk factors knowledge on Alzheimer's Disease among community pharmacists and general practitioners in Spain
Autor : Alacreu García, Mónica
Pardo Albiach, Juan
Azorín Ruiz, María
Climent Catalá, María Teresa
Gasull Molinera, Vicente
Moreno Royo, Lucrecia
Materias: Alzheimer's disease - Risk factors.Farmacéuticos.Atención farmaceútica - Pacientes.Alzheimer, Enfermedad de - Factores de riesgo.Pharmaceutical services - Patients.Pharmacists.
Editorial : Frontiers Editorial.
Citación : Alacreu, M., Pardo, J., Azorín, M., Climent, MT., Gasull, V. & Moreno, L. (2019). Importance of increasing modifiable risk factors knowledge on Alzheimer's Disease among community pharmacists and general practitioners in Spain. Frontiers in Pharmacology, vol. 10, art. 860 (14 ag. 2019). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2019.00860
Resumen : Community pharmacists and general practitioners have daily contact with patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) but the number of positive cases constantly increases every day. Thus, the aim of this research is to describe the level of AD knowledge among community pharmacists and general practitioners in Spain, in order to see where the biggest gaps in the knowledge are. Therefore, a cross-sectional study has been carried out, using the Alzheimer’s disease knowledge survey (ADKS), among members of the Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians and the Spanish Society of Family and Community Pharmacy to report the differences in AD knowledge in both professional collectives. The ADKS has been responded by 578 community pharmacists and 104 general practitioners and consists of a battery of 30 questions, whose possible answers are true or false. It assesses the AD knowledge in seven areas (impact on the disease, risk factors, course of the disease, diagnosis, care, treatment and symptoms). Results indicate that Spanish pharmacists and general practitioners have a high personal knowledge of AD, nevertheless, it is not associated with greater awareness. Both scored above 80% at the categories: diagnostic, treatment and symptoms. However, lower knowledge level (60% of correct answers) was found in those related to risk factors, such as the ignorance about hypercholesterolemia or hypertension as risk factors for the disease. Community pharmacists are already acting to control cardiovascular risk factors, but a wider knowledge of the relationship of these factors to AD is needed to act against these silent risk factors. Thus, pharmacists may also be involved in the management of AD that includes recognizing early symptoms for early detection of cognitive impairment. Hence, knowledge about risk factors is very important in developing this expanding role.
Descripción : Este es el artículo que se ha publicado de forma definitiva en: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2019.00860/full
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/10637/10846
Derechos: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es
ISSN : 1663-9812 (Electrónico).
Fecha de publicación : 14-ago-2019
Centro : Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU
Aparece en las colecciones: Dpto. Farmacia





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