tailieunhanh - Báo cáo hóa học: " Validation of an Estonian version of the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39)"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành hóa học dành cho các bạn yêu hóa học tham khảo đề tài: Validation of an Estonian version of the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39) | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Open Access Validation of an Estonian version of the Parkinson s Disease Questionnaire PDQ-39 ulle Krikmann 1 Pille Taba1 Taavi Lai2 and Toomas Asser1 Address Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery University of Tartu Tartu 51014 Estonia and 2Department of Public Health University of Tartu Estonia Email ulle Krikmann - Pille Taba - Taavi Lai - Toomas Asser - Corresponding author Published 25 March 2008 Received 18 July 2007 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008 6 23 doi 1477-7525-6-23 Accepted 25 March 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 23 2008 Krikmann et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Diagnosis and management of Parkinson s disease PD rely heavily on evaluation of clinical symptoms and patients subjective perception of their condition. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity acceptability and reliability of the Estonian version of the 39-question Parkinson s disease Questionnaire PDQ-39 . Methods Study subjects were approached during their regular clinic follow-up visits. 104 patients consented to the study and 81 completed questionnaires were used for subsequent testing of psychometric characteristics validity and reliability. Results The content validity was assessed through qualitative content analysis during the pilot study. The patients indicated that the questions were relevant to measure the quality of life of people with PD. The analysis of means showed that the ceiling and floor effects of domain results were within the limits of 15 of Summary Index and of all .