EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION TRANSFER CORE

教育和信息传输核心将提供外联和教育，以支持ADRC的总体目标，该目标的重点是在不同种族的人群中减少阿尔茨海默氏症和心血管疾病对认知和行为的影响。具体目标包括： 1.协助招募临床核心课程(包括药理学课程、西班牙语卫星课程)和病理学核心课程的学员。特别是，将重点放在洛杉矶县的拉美裔和亚太岛民人口上。 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，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，并制作邮寄时事通讯。 3.汇编关于不同人群中痴呆症概念化的数据；关于何时寻求帮助、哪些问题值得寻求帮助以及向谁寻求帮助的态度；获得信息的渠道。 为了实现这些目标，EIT核心与南加州大学阿尔茨海默病[教育联盟]的其他成员密切合作，特别是与加州大学阿尔茨海默氏症研究中心的两个项目，一个在健康科学校园，另一个在兰乔·洛斯阿米戈斯国家康复中心；洛杉矶照顾者资源中心；以及洛杉矶、河滨和圣贝纳迪诺的阿尔茨海默氏症协会。实现第一个目标的成功程度将通过纵向研究参与者中多样性的增加以及正常对照组和轻度认知障碍参与者中更多参与尸检计划的志愿者来衡量。第二个目标将通过与会者的会议和演讲及其评估、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 登记在ADRC主题池中的个人。第三个目标的结果将通过专业的讲演者和文章以及改进的招聘战略进行评估。

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.