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Validity of a mailed epidemiological questionnaire and physical self-assessment in Parkinson's disease

✍ Scribed by Dr. Lawrence I. Golbe; Jeen Pae

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Weight
461 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-3185

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✦ Synopsis

The large-scale mail questionnaire is a useful tool in epidemiological investigation and will probably come into wider use in the search for an environmental cause of Parkinson's disease (PD). To determine the validity of mail questionnaires in patients with PD, we administered a 17-item questionnaire by in-person interview, as a standard, to 68 patients (and/or a relative when necessary) and compared the results with the same questionnaire mailed at least 1 month before or after the interview. Questions in three formats requested recall of the clinical course and past environmental factors. Each patient also completed a multiple-choice physical self-assessment (a modification of four items on the Columbia Scale

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