Received 6 October 1995 and in revised form 12 March 1996 Accepted 12 March 1996 Abstract Objectives-To develop and test a questionnaire for measuring quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease. Methods-An item pool was developed based on the experience of patients with Parkinson's disease and of neurologists; medical literature on the problems of patients with Parkinson's disease; an...

OBJECTIVES To develop and test a questionnaire for measuring quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease. METHODS An item pool was developed based on the experience of patients with Parkinson's disease and of neurologists; medical literature on the problems of patients with Parkinson's disease; and other quality of life questionnaires. To reduce the item pool, 13 patients identified ...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to evaluate Turkish transcultural adaptation, reliability, and validity of "Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Questionnaire" (PDQL), which has been developed to assess the quality of life of patients with Parkinson's disease. METHODS Eighty-nine patients who were included in the study were diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. They were presented to the outpatien...

OBJECTIVES To assess the validity of the Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life (PDQL) questionnaire, a patient-specific multi-dimensional quality of life measure, in a community-based sample of patients with Parkinson's disease (PI)) using standardized measures of disease severity, depressive symptomatology and cognitive function. DESIGN A group of 194 patients with probable PD were randomly se...

Translate, culturally adapt, and validate the "Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life" (PDQL) BR, into Brazilian Portuguese. Fifty-two patients answered the PDQL-BR. Twenty-one patients answered the PDQL-BR again 14 days later. The UPDRS and HY scale was applied. Validation was evaluated using psychometric properties, checking the quality of the data, reliability, and validity. Quality of the data...

OBJECTIVE To compare and contrast disease-specific quality of life instruments in Parkinson's disease and assess their clinimetric properties. METHODS Two reviewers independently evaluated both thoroughness and results of studies regarding clinimetric characteristics of identified scales. RESULTS Twenty studies were found reporting on the clinimetric properties of four scales. The content v...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness and safety of combined treatment using acupuncture and bee venom acupuncture (BVA) as an adjunctive treatment for idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS Eleven patients (7 men and 4 women) with idiopathic PD who had been receiving a stable dose of anti-parkinsonian medication for at least 4 weeks. Participants receive...

Background & Aims: This study aimed to translate Parkinson Disease Quality of Life (PDQL) Questionnaire into Persian and test its reliability and validity in Iranian patients with Parkinson disease. Method: In order to standardize the questionnaire, a standard "Forward-Backward" translation, cognitive debriefing and cultural adaptation procedure were applied and the English version of PDQL was ...