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- Patients with Parkinson's disease (PwP) struggle with recognizing faces, especially when they are masked due to the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to younger healthy individuals.
- A study involving 64 PwP, 58 older healthy controls, and 61 younger healthy controls used a face recognition test and a questionnaire to assess recognition difficulties among the groups.
- Results showed PwP performed similarly to older controls in recognizing faces but had more difficulties than younger controls, indicating a specific challenge for older adults that could affect their social interactions during the pandemic.
Article Abstract
Unlabelled: Patients with Parkinson's disease (PwP) have face recognition difficulties.
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the difficulties of PwP in recognizing masked faces during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: A total of 64 PwP, 58 age-matched older healthy controls (OHCs), and 61 younger healthy controls (YHCs) were included in the study. The Benton Face Recognition Test - short form (BFRT-sf) and the 13-item questionnaire on face recognition difficulties due to masks during the pandemic developed by the authors were applied to all three study groups.
Results: Both the PwP and OHC groups scored worse in BFRT-sf when compared with the YHC group (p<0.001 and p<0.001, respectively). The number of those who had difficulty in recognizing people seen every day and the number of those who asked people to remove their masks because they did not recognize them were higher in the PWP group (p=0.026 and p=0.002, respectively). The number of individuals who looked at the posture and gait of people when they did not recognize their masked faces and those who stated that this difficulty affected their daily lives were higher in the OHC group (p=0.002 and p=0.009, respectively). The number of participants whose difficulty in recognizing masked faces decreased over time was higher in the YHC group (p=0.003).
Conclusions: The PwP group demonstrated similar performance to their peers but differed from the YHC group in recognizing masked faces. Knowing difficulties experienced by elderly people in recognizing people who are masked can increase awareness on this issue and enhance their social interaction in pandemic conditions through measures to be taken.
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