General practitioners facing dementia: are they fully prepared?
2004
We assessed knowledge about Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in a
sample of Italian general practitioners (GPs). We first carried
out a propedeutic study to verify the ability of an Italian
version of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s AD
Knowledge Test for Health Professionals to distinguish between
20 AD specialists and 20 non-specialists and to gain reference
values. We then administered the test, together with a short
questionnaire, to 139 GPs attending an educational programme in
November 2000. The cut-off score for discriminating specialists
from non-specialists was ≥9. Among the 95 GPs who performed the
AD Knowledge Test (68.3% response rate), 21% had a total score
≥9. Our findings suggest that particular focus should be given
to dementia in continuing medical education (CME) programmes for
GPs.
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