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Published on: August 7, 2017
Causal attributions of dementia among Korean American immigrants
Sang E Lee1, Sadhna Diwan, Gwen Yeo
1School of Social Work, San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192–0124, USA. sangl@casa.sjsu.edu
Abstract:
To better understand conceptualizations of dementia, this study explored causal attributions of dementia among 209 Korean Americans, using a self-administered questionnaire in Korean. Findings show that Korean Americans endorsed various causal attributions. Factor analysis yielded 3 dimensions of their attributions including psychological, physical/environmental, and cognitive/social. Bivariate analyses showed that younger age and higher education were related to more physical/environmental attributions, and younger age was related to more cognitive/social attributions. The study provides an understanding of causal attributions of dementia that practitioners need to understand to provide culturally competent practice and highlights a need to customize public education messages by specific ethnic groups.
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