Perceptions of symptoms and expectations of advanced therapy for Parkinson’s disease: preliminary report of a Patient-Reported Outcome tool for Advanced Parkinson’s disease (PRO-APD)

Table 2 Domain and total PRO-APD scores of problem severity and expectation of change (N = 22)

Variable	Mean (SD)	Range	Mean (% maximum) (SD)	Correlation of severity with expectation	P
Motor severity (max 56)	23.5 (7.5)	5 – 36	43.4% (13.9)	0.79	<0.001
Motor expectation of improvement (max 24)	14.0 (5.6)	1 – 21	58.3% (22.9)	0.79	<0.001
NMS severity (max 49)	15.5 (5.6)	6 – 31	31.5% (11.2)	0.72	<0.001
NMS expectation of improvement (max 21)	8.5 (4.1)	2 – 16	40.3% (19.1)	0.72	<0.001
Cognitive/psychological severity (max49).	12.4 (5.8)	0 – 24	25.2% (11.1)	0.68	<0.001
Cognitive/psychological expectation of improvement (max 21)	7.4 (4.4)	0 – 16	35.3% (20.8)	0.68	<0.001
Social severity (max 28)	9.3 (4.1)	3 – 16	33.1% (14.6)	0.62	0.002
Social expectation of improvement (max 12)	5.5 (2.8)	0 – 9	45.8% (23.1)	0.62	0.002
Total severity (max 182)	60.5 (16.7)	31 – 105	33.3% (9.4)	0.70	<0.001
Total expectation of improvement (max 78)	35.5 (14.1)	12 – 59	45.3% (17.6)	0.70	<0.001

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