Publications by authors named "Julia Lajtos"
Background: The Unified Dyskinesia Rating Scale (UDysRS) was published in 2008. It was designed to be simultaneous valid, reliable and sensitive to therapeutic changes. The Movement Disorder Society organizing team developed guidelines for the development of official non-English translations consisting of four steps: translation/back-translation, cognitive pretesting, large field testing, and clinimetric analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMovement Disorder Society-sponsored Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) has separate items for measuring sleep problems (item 1.7) and daytime sleepiness (1.8).
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- The MDS-UPDRS, a revised scale for assessing Parkinson's disease, was published in 2008, and official non-English translations follow a structured four-step validation process.
- The Hungarian version underwent translation by neurologists, cognitive pretesting with patients, and large field testing involving 357 participants, while checking the translation's consistency with the original English version.
- The results showed a high Comparative Fit Index (CFI) of ≥ 0.94 for all parts of the Hungarian version, confirming its validity and establishing it as the "OFFICIAL HUNGARIAN VERSION OF THE MDS-UPDRS."