Parkinsono liga sergančių psichologiniai ypatumai
2006
Psychological peculiarities of the patiens
with Parkinson‘s disease Objektives: the aim of this research was
to assess and to compare characteristics of quality of life,
depression and social support of the patients with Parkinson‘s
disease and healthy ones. Methods: using Ferrans and Powers (1985)
Quality of Life Index (QLI), wich measures general quality of life
(QOL) and four domains – health and funktioning, social and
economic, psychological/spiritual and family), Centre for
Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale (CES – D), ( Radloff, 1977)
and O‘Brien, Wortman, Kessler, Joseph (1993) social support scale
was used to interview 60 patients with Parkinson‘s disease (mean
age 67,2 years) and 73 healthy people (mean age 67,0 years). The
Cronbach alpha coefficient for the QOL Lithuanian version was 0,94,
for CES – D scale – 0,87. Results:the research showed that people
with Parkinson‘s disease had lower QOL than healthy people
(respektively 16,42 and 19,96, t = - 6,393, p = 0,001).Analysis
between patients with Parkinson‘s disease and healthy respondents
showed that patients with Parkinson‘s disease had in all domains
lower QOL than healthy respondents and there were statistically
significant differences in all domains (p < 0,05). The most
difference in QOL average was found in scale of physical health
(14,33 and 19,03 respectively, p < 0,05) proving that people
with Parkinson‘s disease experience more serious problems.Research
showed that the difference of the level of... [to full
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