Article type: Review Article
Article
title: Parkinson's
disease rating scales: a literature review
Journal: Annals
of Movement Disorders
Year: 2020
Authors: Jamir Pitton Rissardo, Ana Letícia Fornari
Caprara
E-mail: jamirrissardo@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
A
scale is critical for an objective and standardized process in which the
purpose involves measuring differences between various individuals and
determining priorities such as primary treatment goals. The aim of this study
was to describe and analyze the most common Parkinson’s disease (PD) scales
already used for research and clinical practice. We searched three databases in
an attempt to locate existing scales about PD published until 2017 in
electronic form, only the articles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese were
reviewed. In sum, 114 scales were evaluated and divided into 6 types
representing a general evaluation, such as staging, health-related quality of
life, evaluation of the impact on activities of daily living, loss of
functionality aimed at evaluation of the signs and symptoms of the disease,
evaluation of functioning and disability loss, and other specific evaluations.
Other specific evaluations include the following: fear of falling, depression,
psychosis, sleep, apathy and anhedonia, anxiety, dysautonomia, dyskinesia,
fatigue, motor fluctuations, psychosocial problems, secondary levodopa effects,
Scales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s disease (SCOPA) studies, and cognitive
impairment screening. When required, more specific characteristics of each
scale were included: time to apply, the number of items, advantage, and
disadvantage. In the literature, there are a large number of scales, but the
majority of them were created for other diseases and only later studied for PD.
Also, more than half have only a small number of studies with psychometric
evaluation and others can be used for only a specific portion of the general
population due to their specific feature assessment or language availability.
Keywords: Parkinson's disease, rating, review, scale
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DOI
10.4103/AOMD.AOMD_33_19
Citation
Pitton
Rissardo J, Fornari Caprara AL. Parkinson's
disease rating scales: a literature review. Ann Mov Disord 2020;3:3-22
