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... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060628_153416-30251 |
| Date | 28 June 2006 |
| Creators | Krikščionaitienė, Virginija |
| Contributors | Petrulytė, Ala, Kalpokas, Žygimantas, Pileckaitė - Markovienė, Margarita, Vaitkevičius, Petras Henrikas, Navaitienė, Julita, Daugirdienė, Aušra, Vilnius Pedagogical University |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Vilnius Pedagogical University |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060628_153416-30251 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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