Increasingly, immigration policies are understood as structural determinants, rooted in racism, nativism, and ethnocentrism, which raise serious public health concerns for Latinx adolescents' mental health. Our objective was to examine how immigration policy enforcement affects mental health of Latinx youth raised in a county with an aggressive interior immigration enforcement program. From 2009 to 2021, Gwinnett County, GA, led the nation in deportations under the 287(g) program as a "universal enforcement model," where local law enforcement were deputized to detain undocumented immigrants, primarily through traffic violations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To characterize the physical frailty phenotype and its associated physical and functional impairments in mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
Method: Participants with MCI ( = 119), normal low cognition (NLC, = 138), and normal high cognition (NHC, = 1,681) in the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies (SLAS-2) were compared on the prevalence of physical frailty, low lean body mass, weakness, slow gait, exhaustion and low physical activity, and POMA balance and gait impairment and fall risk.
Results: There were significantly higher prevalence of frailty in MCI (18.
Objectives/background: There is good documentation of the impact of insomnia on daytime cognitive function based on self-reports, but not on neuropsychological test performance. The study investigated the association of difficulty initiating sleep (DIS), difficulty maintaining sleep (DMS), and early morning awakening (EMA) complaints with daytime domain-specific neuropsychological performance in older adults.
Participants/methods: Participants were 859 older adults (mean 71.
Background: Few studies have comprehensively evaluated the relationship between vascular disease and cognition of older adults without cardiac disease.
Objective: We explored the associations of structural atherosclerosis, vascular stiffness, and reactivity with global, memory, attention, language, visuospatial ability, and executive function in community-dwelling, non-demented older Asians without cardiac diseases.
Methods: Cognition was assessed by Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) (n = 308) and detailed neuropsychological tests (n = 155).
Objective: There is no established minimum clinically important difference (MCID) for the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) index and total scale scores. This study aimed to estimate the MCID for the RBANS index scores and total scale score.
Method: Participants included 1,856 ethnic Chinese, older adults.
Objective: Chinese is the most commonly spoken language in the world. The availability of Chinese translations of assessment scales is useful for research in multi-ethnic and multinational studies. This study aimed to establish whether each of the Chinese translations (Mandarin, Hokkien, Teochew, and Cantonese) of the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) achieved measurement equivalence to the English version.
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