Publications by authors named "Radka Ghorbani Saeedian"
Purpose: To explore how social support is associated with anxiety and depression in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients controlling for gender, disease duration and disease severity.
Methods: The sample consisted of 124 patients (52.4% male; mean age 68.
Aims And Objectives: To explore whether self-rated health acts as a potential mediator in the association between functional status and health-related quality of life in Parkinson's disease.
Background: Older persons (as most patients with Parkinson's disease are) who reported poor self-rated health compared with those with excellent self-rated health were two-and-a-half times more likely to have experienced a decline in functional ability.
Design: Cross-sectional.
Objectives: To describe the prevalence and clinical determinants of apathy in elderly nondemented patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and their relationship to quality of life (QoL).
Methods: A total of 106 nondemented elderly patients with PD were examined using the Movement Disorder Society-Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS), Starkstein Apathy Scale, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Beck Depression Inventory-II, and 39-item Parkinson's disease quality of life questionnaire.
Results: Apathy was present in 54% of the studied population.
Clinical and psychosocial factors associated separately with primary and secondary fatigue in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients have not been thoroughly studied before. The aim of our study was to assess factors associated with different fatigue domains in groups with primary and secondary fatigue in PD separately. We divided 165 non-demented PD patients according to the absence/presence of depression, anxiety and excessive somnolence into groups with primary fatigue (N = 63) and with secondary fatigue (N = 102).
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