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Parkinson's disease, depression, and quality-of-life

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Menon, Bindu, Nayar, Rani, Kumar, Suresh, Cherkil, Sandhya, Venkatachalam, Anil, Surendran, K., Deepak, K. S.·2015·Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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BACKGROUND: Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) but is often under diagnosed and under treated leading to worsening of symptoms and deterioration of the quality-of-life of the people suffering from this disease. AIMS: The current study aims to determine the correlation between depression and health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) domains in patients with PD. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A sample of 65 consecutive patients attending the specialty Parkinson's clinic was assessed by a psychiatrist as part of the treatment protocol. Diagnosis of depression was done using the International Classification of Diseases-10 by a psychiatrist and depression was scored using the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). QOL-BREF Malayalam version was used to assess quality-of-life in the patients. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: One-way ANOVA was used to find the difference in the quality-of-life experienced by different age categories, duration of the disease, psychiatric co-morbidity. Independent sample t-test was used to find the difference in the quality-of-life experienced by genders, co morbid conditions and to find the difference in the scores on GDS and domains of WHO QOL BREF. Association of H and Y staging and duration of Parkinsonism with GDS Scores were computed using Pearson's Chi-square test. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: There was a significant association of female gender and depression with the physical and psychological domains of QOL while the duration and staging of PD did not have any association with QOL Domains. Depression thus emerges as one of the main predictors of poor quality-of-life in PD.

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  • Anxiety and depression are thought to be the strongest PD quality of life predictors.

    “are thought to be the strongest PD quality of life predictors (Rahman et al., 2008”

    From Remote delivery of psychological interventions for Parkinson's disease. (2018) · cites this paper as Menon et al., 2015

    The Discussion identifies depression as the most important predictor of poor quality of life in this study. It also states that psychiatric conditions other than depression were not considered, so the paper does not establish anxiety as one of the strongest predictors. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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Menon, B., Nayar, R., Kumar, S., Cherkil, S., Venkatachalam, A., Surendran, K., & Deepak, K. S.
Affiliations
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (IN)
Corresponding author
Menon, Bindu
Venue
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine
Published
2015-04
Volume
37
Issue
2
Pages
144-148
ISSN
  • 0253-7176 (ISSN-L)
  • 0975-1564
OpenAlex
W1973735980
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57
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2.59
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Language
en
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Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Health and Well-being Studies
Keywords
Parkinson's disease, depression, health-related quality of life, Geriatric Depression Scale, WHOQOL-BREF, psychiatric comorbidity, disease duration, disease staging, sex differences, Malayalam

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