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- Title
Minimal Clinically Important Difference on Parkinson’s Disease Sleep Scale 2nd Version.
- Authors
Horváth, Krisztina; Aschermann, Zsuzsanna; Ács, Péter; Deli, Gabriella; Janszky, József; Komoly, Sámuel; Karádi, Kázmér; Kovács, Márton; Makkos, Attila; Faludi, Béla; Kovács, Norbert
- Abstract
Background and Aims. The aim of the present study was to determine the estimates of minimal clinically important difference for Parkinson’s Disease Sleep Scale 2nd version (PDSS-2) total score and dimensions. Methods. The subject population consisted of 413 PD patients. At baseline, MDS-UPDRS, Hoehn-Yahr Scale, Mattis Dementia Rating Scale, and PDSS-2 were assessed. Nine months later the PDSS-2 was reevaluated with the Patient-Reported Global Impression Improvement Scale. Both anchor-based techniques (within patients’ score change method and sensitivity- and specificity-based method by receiver operating characteristic analysis) and distribution-based approaches (effect size calculations) were utilized to determine the magnitude of minimal clinically important difference. Results. According to our results, any improvements larger than −3.44 points or worsening larger than 2.07 points can represent clinically important changes for the patients. These thresholds have the effect size of 0.21 and −0.21, respectively. Conclusions. Minimal clinically important differences are the smallest change of scores that are subjectively meaningful to patients. Studies using the PDSS-2 as outcome measure should utilize the threshold of −3.44 points for detecting improvement or the threshold of 2.07 points for observing worsening.
- Subjects
HUNGARY; SLEEP; ACADEMIC medical centers; PARKINSON'S disease; RESEARCH evaluation; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); DATA analysis; RECEIVER operating characteristic curves; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Parkinson's Disease (20420080), 2015, Vol 2015, p1
- ISSN
2090-8083
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2015/970534