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- Title
Quality of life and Parkinson's disease: translation and validation of the US Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39).
- Authors
Bushnell, Donald M.; Martin, Mona L.; Bushnell, D M; Martin, M L
- Abstract
Parkinson's disease is a common progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting an estimated 4 million people worldwide. A number of general health status measures exist but few fully capture the subjective evaluation of life quality associated with Parkinson's disease. We report here the results of: (1) translating the British PDQ-39 into a US version, (2) validity and reliability of the new US PDQ-39 questionnaire, and (3) parallel validation analyses following the method published in the development of the British version of the PDQ-39. Data were collected by postal survey on 150 patients recruited from neurology clinics in the Seattle area. A short, generic health status measure (SF-36) was used to test convergent validity, and a three-day test-retest assessed the reliability of the PDQ-39. The US version of the PDQ-39 demonstrated acceptable internal consistency (alpha = 0.51 to 0.96) and proved to be reproducible (0.86 to 0.96). Subscales of the PDQ-39 showed convergence with like scales of the SF-36 and was able to discriminate between levels of symptom severity.
- Subjects
PARKINSON'S disease; QUALITY of life; HEALTH status indicators; QUESTIONNAIRES; HEALTH
- Publication
Quality of Life Research, 1999, Vol 8, Issue 4, p345
- ISSN
0962-9343
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1008979705027