A study to assess the level of knowledge on Alzheimer’s disease among patients in selected hospitals at Bangalore with a view to develop an informational booklet regarding prevention of Alzheimer’s disease

Every day, every minute, experts in the health care fraternity and scientists are learning something new about the Alzheimer’s disease as the incidents of the same is on the rise, Globally. As per the research evidences it is proved that the knowledge about the disease and it’s preventive measures among common people can reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease to an extend. Hence the main aim of this research was to assess the existing knowledge on Alzheimer’s disease among patients and to develop an informational booklet regarding prevention of Alzheimer’s disease. Non-experimental descriptive design was adopted to assess the knowledge regarding Alzheimer’s disease among the samples. With the use of non probability convenient sampling technique100 patients attending medical OPD of selected hospitals were used as samples. After getting consent from the samples knowledge was assessed from the samples with the help of a structured knowledge questionnaire. The result of the study had shown that the knowledge about the Alzheimer’s disease among samples were inadequate and their knowledge were effectively strengthened with the help of information booklet. Also, it is proved that there was significant association between knowledge score of patient and selected demographic variables such as age (χ 2= 6.47) gender (χ 2=5.59) marital status (χ 2= 15.33) occupational status (χ 2=14.49) family income (χ 2 = 6.32) ,source of information (χ 2 =6.51),mode of information(χ 2 =15.94).