Data on pain coping strategies and their association with quality of life in people with Parkinson’s disease: A cross-sectional study

This article presents data about coping with pain and health-related quality of life from 52 patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) (without PD dementia). Coping was assessed using Coping Strategy Questionnaire (CSQ), including active/passive and cognitive/behavioral coping strategies and the felt efficacy of the coping strategies used. In addition, common PD specific assessments were recorded. For pain rating the corresponding items from the Short-Form-36 were used. The dataset allows determining factors related pain and coping in PD. The dataset can be utilized by clinicians, academics and pharmacists for further research and reference purposes. The data presented herein is associated with the research article “Pain coping strategies and their association with quality of life in people with Parkinson's Disease: a Cross-Sectional study” [1] and available on Dryad, Dataset 10.5061/dryad.2280gb5s7.