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 3 **Correlations coefficients * between clinical variables and PRO-APD severity and expectation domain scores (N = 22)**

	UPDRS 3-total	NMSS total	HADS total	ACE-R total
Motor severity	0.40	0.49 ^a	0.31	0.15
Motor expectations	0.37	0.46 ^a	0.24	0.36
NMS severity	0.15	0.40	0.27	0.17
NMS expectations	0.02	0.36	0.18	0.35
Cognition/Psychological severity	0.15	0.62 ^b	0.57 ^b	0.16
Cognition/Psychological expectations	0.14	0.61 ^b	0.58 ^b	0.45 ^a
Social severity	0.26	0.59 ^b	0.32	0.20
Social expectations	0.00	0.23	0.25	0.30
Total severity	0.31	0.70 ^c	0.43	0.27
Total expectations	0.20	0.49 ^a	0.34	0.45 ^a

*Spearman rank correlation coefficient. UPDRS-3 = Revised Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (Part 3); NMSS = Non Motor Symptom Scale; HADS = Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; ACE-R = Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination (Revised).
^ap < 0.05; ^bp < 0.01; ^cp < 0.001. Unmarked ≥0.05. The values in bold are the ones with significant p values.

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