Prevalence of Anxiety among Hungarian Subjects with Parkinson’s Disease
| Autor: | Márton Kovács, Attila Makkos, Rita Weintraut, Kázmér Karádi, József Janszky, Norbert Kovács |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Behavioural Neurology, Vol 2017 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0953-4180 1875-8584 |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2017/1470149 |
| Popis: | Although anxiety is one of the most frequent symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD), only a few clinical tools can efficiently and reliably detect its presence. The aim of the present study was to validate the Hungarian patient-rated version of Parkinson Anxiety Scale (PAS). A total of 190 PD patients were enrolled into the clinimetric validation phase of the study and another 590 participated in the cross-sectional screening phase. The presence of anxiety disorder was diagnosed based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders criteria. The cutoff value for PAS which best discriminated the presence of anxiety from the absence was 12.5 points (sensitivity of 88.6%, specificity of 79.9). The area under the curve was 0.847 whereas the ROC analysis yielded the statistical significance level (p |
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