EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION TRANSFER CORE

教育和信息传递核心将提供外展和教育，以支持ADRC的总体目标，其重点是减少阿尔茨海默氏症和心血管疾病对不同种族人群的认知和行为影响。具体目标包括： 1.帮助招募临床核心（包括药理学项目，西班牙语卫星）和病理学核心的参与者。特别是，重点向洛杉矶县的拉丁美洲人和亚太岛民开展外联活动。 2.为健康，心理健康和社会服务机构工作人员提供社区教育，他们与潜在的ADRC参与者一起工作，并为ADRC核心参与者的家庭提供社区教育，包括针对研究人员，服务提供者和研究参与者的会议，使用基于网络的技术，并制作邮寄的时事通讯。 3.收集关于不同人群中痴呆症概念化的数据;关于何时寻求帮助的态度，什么问题需要寻求帮助，以及寻求帮助的人;通过哪些渠道获得信息。 为了实现这些目标，EIT核心与USC阿尔茨海默病[教育联盟]的其他成员密切合作，特别是两个位于南加州大学的加州阿尔茨海默病研究中心项目，一个在健康科学校园，另一个在兰乔洛杉矶阿米戈斯国家康复中心;洛杉矶护理人员资源中心;以及洛杉矶、滨江和圣贝纳迪诺的阿尔茨海默病协会。实现第一个目标的成功将通过纵向研究中招募的人员的多样性增加以及正常对照组和轻度认知障碍参与者中尸检计划的更多志愿者来衡量。第二个目标将通过会议和演讲以及与会者的评价、更多地使用基于网络的技术以及参与支持性干预措施和干预研究来衡量。 入组ADRC受试者库的个体。第三个目标的结果将通过专业的演讲者和文章以及改进的招聘战略来评估。

The Education and Information Transfer core will provide outreach and education in support of the overall goal of the ADRC, whose focus is on reducing the cognitive and behavioral impact of Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease, among ethnically diverse populations. The specific aims include: 1. To aid in recruitment of participants for the Clinical Core (including Pharmacology Program, Spanish-speaking Satellite) and Pathology Core. In particular, to focus on outreach to Latino and Asian-Pacific Islander populations in Los Angeles County. 2. To offer community education for health, mental health, and social service agency staff who work with potential ADRC participants, and for the families of participants in the ADRC cores, including conferences aimed at researcher,, service providers, and research participants, use of web-based technologies, and producing a mailed newsletter. 3. To compile data about the conceptualization of dementia among diverse populations; attitudes about when to see help, what problems warrant seeking help, and from whom help is sought; channels through which information is obtained. In meeting these aims, the EIT core collaborates closely with other members of the USC Alzheimer's Disease [Educational Consortium, specifically, the two USC-based Alzheimer's Research Center of California programs, one at the Health Science Campus and the other at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center; the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center; and the Alzheimer's Association of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino. Success in achieving the first aim will be measured by increased diversity among those enrolled in the longitudinal study and more volunteers for the autopsy program among normal controls and mildly cognitively impaired participants. The second aim will be measured by conferences and presentations and their evaluation by those who attend, greater use of web-based technologies, and participation in supportive interventions and intervention research by individuals enrolled in ADRC subject pool. The outcome of the third aim will be assessed by professional presentatior and articles and by improved recruitment strategies.