Use of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment Short Version in Mild to Moderate Parkinson Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the distribution, internal consistency reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF) in persons with mild to moderate Parkinson disease (PD).

Design

Cross-sectional.

Setting

Movement disorders center.

Participants

Convenience sample of people with PD (n=96) recruited from a movement disorders center and controls (n=60) recruited from the community (N=156).

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main outcome measure

WHOQOL-BREF.

Results

The WHOQOL-BREF domain data were relatively normally distributed, and internal consistency reliability was acceptable (α=.65-.85). Participants with PD reported lower quality of life (QOL) than controls

SUBMITTER: Hendred SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5124385 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature