Effect of depression on patients with Parkinson's disease

Abstract

To investigate depressive symptoms and quality of life in 100 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) by using Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) and Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Healthy Survey (SF-36). Physiological role had no significant difference (P > 0.05), while physiological function (P = 0.001), emotions (P = 0.000), social function (P = 0.007), body pain (P = 0.000), energy (P = 0.000), mental health (P = 0.000), general health (P = 0.004) and total score (P = 0.000) had statistically significant difference in PD patients with different degrees of depressive symptoms. The study indicates that depressive symptoms may impact the quality of life in PD patients.

DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6731.2016.09.015