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Psychopathological features in patients with Parkinson's disease and related caregivers' burden by Florindo Stella; Claudio E. M. Banzato; Elizabeth M. A. Barasnevicius Quagliato; Maura Aparecida Viana; Gustavo Christofoletti is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract ## Background Along with classical motor disorders in Parkinson's disease (PD), psychopathological features frequently co‐occur, which may increase the caregiver's burden. ## Aims To identify the profile of psychopathological symptoms in patients with PD and the impact imposed by this condition on the caregiver's burden. ## Subjects Fifty patients with idiopathic PD seen consecutively at the Movement Disorder Outpatient Clinic at the Hospital of State University of Campinas, Brazil, and their 50 respective caregivers were studied. ## Methods The 50 patients with PD were divided into three groups according to the respective psychiatric diagnosis received (depression: __N__ = 17, dementia: __N__ = 13 and non‐depressed and non‐demented: __N__ = 20). We divided the caregivers into three groups according to the mental condition of their patients. To assess the mental condition of patients and the caregiver's burden, and to correlate those psychopathological features found with clinical features of PD, we applied the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). ## Results Patients with dementia presented the highest NPI scores of psychopathological symptoms (26.4), followed by patients
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- Author
- Florindo Stella; Claudio E. M. Banzato; Elizabeth M. A. Barasnevicius Quagliato; Maura Aparecida Viana; Gustavo Christofoletti
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square (ISSN 0885-6230)
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)