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Fear Of Alzheimer's Disease And Its Role In Memory Monitoring And Control, Annalise Marie Rahman
Fear Of Alzheimer's Disease And Its Role In Memory Monitoring And Control, Annalise Marie Rahman
Wayne State University Dissertations
Introduction: Fear of Alzheimer’s disease (FAD), or Anticipatory Dementia, is a healthy adult’s misinterpretation of everyday memory failures as indicators of developing dementia. The current study investigated the construct of FAD and aimed to contextualize FAD within the Health Belief Model through development of a new scale, the Anticipatory Dementia Index (ADI). The study also assessed the relationship between FAD and metacognitive monitoring and metacognitive control.
Methods: 94 cognitively-intact community-dwelling older adults with and without a history of family history of AD completed questionnaires regarding their subjective memory complaints, state and trait anxiety, depression, and multiple measures of FAD, including …