Expanded and Independent Spanish Validation of the MDS-Non Motor Rating Scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Movement Disorder Society-sponsored Non-motor Rating Scale (MDS-NMS) assess the severity and disability caused by non-motor symptoms (NMS) in Parkinson's disease (PD).

Objective

This article encapsulates the formal process for completing this program and the data on the first officially approved non-English version of the MDS-NMS (Spanish).

Methods

The MDS-NMS translation program involves four steps: translation and back-translation; cognitive pre-testing to ensure that raters and patients understand the scale and are comfortable with its content; field testing of the finalized version; analysis of the factor structure of the tested version against the original English language version for the nine domains that could be analyzed in a confirmatory factor

SUBMITTER: Cubo E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10105117 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature