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Italian validation of the Belastungsfragebogen Parkinson kurzversion (BELA-P-k): a disease-specific questionnaire for evaluation of the subjective perception of quality of life in parkinson’s disease

BACKGROUND: Quality of life (QoL) is the sense of well-being perceived by people. The improvement of parkinsonian patient’s QoL is a crucial goal for clinicians involved in rehabilitative care. In order to provide an appropriate endpoint for the assessment of the effectiveness of rehabilitation trea...

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Autores principales: Ortelli, Paola, Maestri, Roberto, Zarucchi, Marianna, Cian, Veronica, Urso, Elisa, Giacomello, Francesca, Ferrazzoli, Davide, Frazzitta, Giuseppe
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5525312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28770096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40734-017-0059-x
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author Ortelli, Paola
Maestri, Roberto
Zarucchi, Marianna
Cian, Veronica
Urso, Elisa
Giacomello, Francesca
Ferrazzoli, Davide
Frazzitta, Giuseppe
author_facet Ortelli, Paola
Maestri, Roberto
Zarucchi, Marianna
Cian, Veronica
Urso, Elisa
Giacomello, Francesca
Ferrazzoli, Davide
Frazzitta, Giuseppe
author_sort Ortelli, Paola
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description BACKGROUND: Quality of life (QoL) is the sense of well-being perceived by people. The improvement of parkinsonian patient’s QoL is a crucial goal for clinicians involved in rehabilitative care. In order to provide an appropriate endpoint for the assessment of the effectiveness of rehabilitation treatments on QoL of patients with Parkinson’s Disease (PD), in this study we have first translated and then validated the Belastungsfragebogen Parkinson kurzversion (BELA-P-k). This tool allows evaluating separately two crucial aspects: i) the loss of personal autonomy in activities of daily life and ii) the psychological and psychosocial impact of the disease. METHODS: The BELA-P-k was translated from Dutch into Italian. Subsequently 202 PD patients filled out the questionnaire. Patients were also evaluated by using the Parkinson Disease Questionnaire −39 (PDQ39), the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS), the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB). RESULTS: The internal consistency for total of two different scores Bothered by (Bb) and Need for Help (NfH) was excellent (p = 0.91) for both categories. The correlation between Bb and NfH categories was significant and strong, very-strong, ranging from 0.78 to 0.88 (all p < 0.0001). Finally, the value of Spearman r for the relationship between Bb and NfH items and PDQ 39 values were significant (p ≤ 0.003). CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, we validated the BELA-P-k and demonstrated that it is an appropriate and potentially useful tool for assessing QoL in the management of PD. TRIALS REGISTRATION: This trial was retrospectively registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03073044.
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spelling pubmed-55253122017-08-02 Italian validation of the Belastungsfragebogen Parkinson kurzversion (BELA-P-k): a disease-specific questionnaire for evaluation of the subjective perception of quality of life in parkinson’s disease Ortelli, Paola Maestri, Roberto Zarucchi, Marianna Cian, Veronica Urso, Elisa Giacomello, Francesca Ferrazzoli, Davide Frazzitta, Giuseppe J Clin Mov Disord Research Article BACKGROUND: Quality of life (QoL) is the sense of well-being perceived by people. The improvement of parkinsonian patient’s QoL is a crucial goal for clinicians involved in rehabilitative care. In order to provide an appropriate endpoint for the assessment of the effectiveness of rehabilitation treatments on QoL of patients with Parkinson’s Disease (PD), in this study we have first translated and then validated the Belastungsfragebogen Parkinson kurzversion (BELA-P-k). This tool allows evaluating separately two crucial aspects: i) the loss of personal autonomy in activities of daily life and ii) the psychological and psychosocial impact of the disease. METHODS: The BELA-P-k was translated from Dutch into Italian. Subsequently 202 PD patients filled out the questionnaire. Patients were also evaluated by using the Parkinson Disease Questionnaire −39 (PDQ39), the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS), the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB). RESULTS: The internal consistency for total of two different scores Bothered by (Bb) and Need for Help (NfH) was excellent (p = 0.91) for both categories. The correlation between Bb and NfH categories was significant and strong, very-strong, ranging from 0.78 to 0.88 (all p < 0.0001). Finally, the value of Spearman r for the relationship between Bb and NfH items and PDQ 39 values were significant (p ≤ 0.003). CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, we validated the BELA-P-k and demonstrated that it is an appropriate and potentially useful tool for assessing QoL in the management of PD. TRIALS REGISTRATION: This trial was retrospectively registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03073044. BioMed Central 2017-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5525312/ /pubmed/28770096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40734-017-0059-x Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Ortelli, Paola
Maestri, Roberto
Zarucchi, Marianna
Cian, Veronica
Urso, Elisa
Giacomello, Francesca
Ferrazzoli, Davide
Frazzitta, Giuseppe
Italian validation of the Belastungsfragebogen Parkinson kurzversion (BELA-P-k): a disease-specific questionnaire for evaluation of the subjective perception of quality of life in parkinson’s disease
title Italian validation of the Belastungsfragebogen Parkinson kurzversion (BELA-P-k): a disease-specific questionnaire for evaluation of the subjective perception of quality of life in parkinson’s disease
title_full Italian validation of the Belastungsfragebogen Parkinson kurzversion (BELA-P-k): a disease-specific questionnaire for evaluation of the subjective perception of quality of life in parkinson’s disease
title_fullStr Italian validation of the Belastungsfragebogen Parkinson kurzversion (BELA-P-k): a disease-specific questionnaire for evaluation of the subjective perception of quality of life in parkinson’s disease
title_full_unstemmed Italian validation of the Belastungsfragebogen Parkinson kurzversion (BELA-P-k): a disease-specific questionnaire for evaluation of the subjective perception of quality of life in parkinson’s disease
title_short Italian validation of the Belastungsfragebogen Parkinson kurzversion (BELA-P-k): a disease-specific questionnaire for evaluation of the subjective perception of quality of life in parkinson’s disease
title_sort italian validation of the belastungsfragebogen parkinson kurzversion (bela-p-k): a disease-specific questionnaire for evaluation of the subjective perception of quality of life in parkinson’s disease
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5525312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28770096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40734-017-0059-x
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