Publications by authors named "Lugi Trojano"
Article Synopsis
- Psychological factors, specifically maladaptive metacognitive beliefs, may contribute to fatigue in Parkinson's disease, which had not been previously studied.
- A study involving 98 PD patients found that 21% experienced fatigue, with more significant fatigue linked to higher scores in metacognitive beliefs and poorer cognitive confidence.
- The research suggests that these maladaptive beliefs could trigger and sustain fatigue, indicating a need for future studies to explore potential interventions that could reduce fatigue by addressing these beliefs.
Background: Subjective complaints of cognitive deficits are not necessarily consistent with objective evidence of cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD). Here we examined the factors associated with the objective-subjective cognitive discrepancy.
Methods: We consecutively enrolled 90 non-demented patients with PD who completed the Parkinson's Disease Cognitive Functional Rating Scale (subjective cognitive measure) and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA; objective cognitive measure).