Validation of the Ukrainian and Russian versions of the KPPS

Background. The purpose of the study is to validate Ukrainian and Russian versions King’s Parkinson’s disease Pain Scale (KPPS). Materials methods. was conducted at Odesa Regional Clinical Hospital in 2018–2020. We examined 160 patients with verified by UK Brain Bank criteria (main group) 100 people same age without signs extrapyramidal pathology (controls). All were accordance requirements current clinical protocols. Additionally, all participants answered questions KPPS provided or version. Mann-Whitney method Benjamini-Hochberg correction used for multiple comparisons. Results. varying severity detected 121 (75.6 %) PD. There no cases pain control group. most common nocturnal (52.5 musculoskeletal pain, both isolated (23.1 various combinations (up 65.6 %). associated motor fluctuations occurred 27 (5.1 cases. Central chronic 22 (13.8 patients, visceral — 11 (6.9 Orofacial noted 19 (11.9%) edema inflammation found 24 (15.0 %), radicular 17 (10.6%) people. Cronbach’s alpha domains scale higher than 0.7. visual analogue correlated KPSS score (r = 0.53). Conclusions. data indicated acceptable validity KPSS. questionnaire can be recommended widespread use assessing phenotype its disease.