Awareness on Alzheimer’s Diseases among College Students

Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease is the common form of dementia and possibly contributes about 60-70%. of Cases .There
is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease and drug therapy for disease is still in its infancy. Approved medication for
the treatment of probable Alzheimer disease helps control the Symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease . This study
involves college students in the age of 17 to 20 years. A well Structured questionnaire comprising questions
covering socio-demographic information , knowledge, altitude, perception was framed and adminstrested to
these participants through an Online survey. The results were collected and were represented in pie charts.
The association between groups was assessed by Chi Square test where p < 0.05 was considered statistically
significant. More awareness may be created on the risk factor and complications of Alzheimer’s diseases
among the younger generation.