Deep Brain Stimulation Impact on Social and Occupational Functioning in Parkinson's Disease with Early Motor Complications.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) improves motor symptoms and quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and early motor complications, suggesting that DBS could be prescribed to the working-age PD population.

Objectives

To investigate the effect of DBS compared with best medical therapy (BMT) on social, psychosocial, and occupational functioning in patients with PD ≤60 years of age with early motor complications, its correlates, and possible underlying rationale.

Methods

Methods included analyses of the Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale, Scales for Outcomes for Parkinson's-Psychosocial, Professional Fitness, Starkstein Apathy Scale, and Schwab and England Activities of Daily Living Scale from the EARLYSTIM study.

Results

SUBMITTER: Stoker V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7396868 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature