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Vietnamese Insights into Cognitive Aging Program (VIP): Objectives, study design, and cohort description.
Oanh L Meyer1, Sarah Tomaszewski Farias1, Rachel A Whitmer1
1School of Medicine University of California, Davis Sacramento California USA.
Alzheimer'S & Dementia (New York, N. Y.)
|July 23, 2024
Summary
The Vietnamese Insights into Cognitive Aging Program (VIP) studies how early life adversity and war trauma affect cognitive health in older Vietnamese Americans. This research aims to reduce dementia disparities in understudied populations.
Area of Science:
- Gerontology
- Neuroscience
- Public Health
Background:
- Research on cognitive aging and dementia in Asian Americans, especially Vietnamese Americans, is limited.
- Vietnamese Americans are the fourth largest Asian subgroup in the U.S.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the association between early life adversity, war-related trauma, and cognitive health in older Vietnamese Americans.
- To examine cognitive function, including global cognition, executive function, semantic memory, and episodic memory.
- To identify psychosocial and cardiovascular risk factors contributing to cognitive decline.
Main Methods:
- The Vietnamese Insights into Cognitive Aging Program (VIP) is a community-based longitudinal study.
- Baseline data collected from 548 Vietnamese Americans (mean age 73) in Northern California.
- Comprehensive neuropsychological testing, functioning, trauma exposure, and risk factor assessments.
Main Results:
- Baseline assessments completed between January 2022 and November 2023.
- Significant differences in education, income, and English proficiency were observed between study sites.
- Majority of participants reported speaking some to no English.
Conclusions:
- This study offers a unique opportunity to understand dementia disparities in under-engaged populations.
- Future analyses will explore cognition, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia prevalence, controlling for site differences.
- Findings may inform interventions and reduce Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) burden in diverse groups.
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