Dementia in Migrants Living in Italy: Promoting a Diversity-sensitive Clinical Approach and Provision of Care

NCT ID: NCT06416137

Last Updated: 2024-05-16

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 3000 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-06-30
• Study Completion Date: 2025-06-30

Brief Summary

The number of older migrants with cognitive impairment and dementia living in Italy and attending national healthcare services is rapidly increasing. There is a need to develop diversity-sensitive policies and practices to include migrants and people with different cultural values in the public health response to dementia.

Detailed Description

Based on the gaps and barriers identified by the ImmiDem study (GR-2016-02364975), the present project aims to:

i) Describe the clinical and sociodemographic characteristics of migrants with cognitive disorders living in Italy, their health outcomes, and their access to healthcare resources; ii) develop and disseminate screening and assessment tools allowing the cross-cultural cognitive examination of individuals with a migration background; iii) raise awareness about dementia among culturally diverse people and train healthcare professionals in how to provide culturally competent care and support for migrants with cognitive disorders.

Conditions

Dementia; Alzheimer Disease

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_CONTROL
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

Migrants

A group of 1,500 migrants with cognitive impairment will be enrolled at CCDDs.

Neuropsychological tests

Intervention Type: DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Participants will be assessed with neuropsychological tests and will be collected information about their lifestyle, clinical history and sociodemographic status. Special attention will be paid to the presence of modifiable risk factors for dementia (i.e., low education, hearing impairment, traumatic brain injury, excessive alcohol consumption, obesity, smoking, hypertension, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes, and social isolation).

Natives

A group of 1,500 natives with cognitive impairment will be enrolled at CCDDs.

Neuropsychological tests

Intervention Type: DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Participants will be assessed with neuropsychological tests and will be collected information about their lifestyle, clinical history and sociodemographic status. Special attention will be paid to the presence of modifiable risk factors for dementia (i.e., low education, hearing impairment, traumatic brain injury, excessive alcohol consumption, obesity, smoking, hypertension, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes, and social isolation).

Interventions

Neuropsychological tests

Participants will be assessed with neuropsychological tests and will be collected information about their lifestyle, clinical history and sociodemographic status. Special attention will be paid to the presence of modifiable risk factors for dementia (i.e., low education, hearing impairment, traumatic brain injury, excessive alcohol consumption, obesity, smoking, hypertension, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes, and social isolation).

Intervention Type: DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Migrant (person who was not born in Italy) attending an Italian CCDD;
• Presence of a cognitive impairment.

Exclusion Criteria

• A person without any cognitive impairment.

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Istituto Superiore di Sanità

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Marco Canevelli

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Central Contacts

Marco Canevelli

Role: CONTACT

marco.canevelli@iss.it

+393393415890

Related Links

http://www.immidem.it/

The website created during the first part of this project.

Other Identifiers

GR-2021-12372081

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id