Yes / There has been an increasing interest in establishing dementia friendly communities leading to the development and delivery of various dementia awareness initiatives. These initiatives have generally been aimed at adults, however to sustain dementia friendly communities, the involvement of young people is imperative. Very few dementia awareness initiatives exist for young people and none have been independently evaluated to establish their impact. This research aimed to design and develop a scale to measure adolescents’ attitudes towards dementia to allow such initiatives to be evaluated. Methods: The Adolescent Attitudes toward Dementia Scale (A-ADS) was developed in two stages. Firstly, cognitive interviews were conducted with 15 young people and secondly, a new scale (based on items from two existing scales) was piloted with 262 young people, recruited through schools. Results: A scale consisting of 23 items was developed. Exploratory factor analysis demonstrated that this captured three factors; perceptions of dementia, personal sacrifice and empathy with people living with dementia. The three sub-scales showed adequate internal consistency (>.60), correlated with the original scales (r = .79-.91, p <.001) and correlated with an existing measure of attitudes towards older people at a similar level to the original scales (r = .47, p < .001). Discussion: The scale will allow the evaluation of educational initiatives for young people and provide a validated and standardised measure to establish adolescents’ attitudes towards dementia.

The theoretical part of the diploma thesis deals with specific nutritional needs and the concept of healthy nutrition during period of adolescence. Knowledge and attitudes are constantly evolving in period of adolescence and can also be negatively affected in many ways (most often through media), so emphasis is placed on the risks of excessive or inadequate intake of energy and nutrients. A special chapter deals with eating disorders. The paper analyses individual categories of the food pyramid in detail, focusing on needs and pitfalls related to adolescents. The practical part of the diploma thesis focuses on mapping of the knowledge and attitudes of adolescents towards healthy nutrition. Main aims of this work were to compare the knowledge of adolescents about healthy nutrition, depending on the currently studied school and age (in this work was compared the younger group aged 13−15 with the older group aged 17− 19). Another aim of the work was to investigate the relationship between the attitude towards healthy nutrition and the sex and also the difference in attitudes between the two adolescent age categories. The used methodology was a questionnaire survey. From mid-February to the end of March 2017, data was collected at schools in the Central Bohemia Region, specifically in the town of...