Reference : Perceived rights of and social distance to people with Alzheimer's disease
Scientific journals : Article
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Multidisciplinary, general & others
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/6901
Perceived rights of and social distance to people with Alzheimer's disease
English
Bourkel, Elisabeth[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) >]
Ferring, Dieter[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) >]
Weber, Germain[Universität Wien > Fakultät für Psychologie > Institut für angewandte Psychologie: Gesundheit, Entwicklung und Förderunng]
[en] Alzheimer’s disease ; perceived rights ; social distance ; stigmatization ; health professionals ; laypeople
[en] The present study investigated how laypeople and professionals (N = 185) judge the rights of a person affected with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and whether social distance exists towards this person. Participants completed a questionnaire after reading a vignette describing a target person with an early stage of AD. Half of the participants responded to a female target, the other half responded to a male target. Results showed that rights and competencies of the persons are rated high and social distance is exhibited only to a lesser degree, although there was a significant difference between the male and female target. Furthermore, health professionals approved more rights than laypeople, which suggests that there is a need for more detailed information about this disease in the general population.
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