A Patient-Centered Perspective on Changes in Personal Characteristics After Deep Brain Stimulation.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) results in improvements in motor function and quality of life in patients with Parkinson disease (PD), which might impact a patient's perception of valued personal characteristics. Prior studies investigating whether DBS causes unwanted changes to oneself or one's personality have methodological limitations that should be addressed.

Objective

To determine whether DBS is associated with changes in characteristics that patients with PD identify as personally meaningful.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study assessed changes in visual analog scale (VAS) ratings reflecting the extent to which patients with PD manifested individually identified personal characteristics before and 6 and 12 months after DBS at a large aca

SUBMITTER: Merner AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11411387 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature