与痴呆症患者失踪事件相关的危险因素:一个范围审查
Hector Perez1, Antonio Miguel Cruz1,2,3, Noelannah Neubauer1
1Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement
|February 1, 2024
概括
数以百万计的痴呆症患者可能会因为认知挑战而失踪. 识别个人特征和环境等风险因素有助于预防事故,为痴呆症患者创造更安全的社区.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 全球有超过5500万人患有痴呆症,预计到2050年将增加三倍.
- 痴呆症的认知障碍增加了风险,包括流浪和失踪.
- 失踪的痴呆症患者的不良结果包括伤害,死亡和制度化.
研究的目的:
- 进行范围审查,以确定与痴呆症患者失踪相关的风险因素.
- 综合现有关于痴呆症患者流浪和迷路的预测因素的研究.
- 为社区安全制定预防策略和政策制定提供信息.
主要方法:
- 在四个数据库中进行文献综述:Medline,CINAHL,Embase和Scopus.
- 选了3376个已识别的文章,其中73个符合数据提取的纳入标准.
- 分析定量研究以确定人口,健康和环境领域的风险因素.
主要成果:
- 确定了27个不同的变量,这些变量有助于痴呆症患者失踪的风险.
- 风险因素被分为三个主要领域:人口统计学/个人特征,健康状况/症状以及环境/情境因素.
- 大多数研究都采用了定量方法来评估这些风险因素.
结论:
- 了解确定的风险因素对于预测和预防痴呆症患者的失踪事件至关重要.
- 将已识别的风险因素与主动策略结合起来,可以提高安全性并减少不良结果.
- 这些发现可以为政策干预提供信息,旨在为日益增长的痴呆症人口创造更安全的社区.
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