Mean NHP scores and percentage of patients reporting problems within each NHP dimension in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and elderly controls
| Emotional reactions | Energy | Pain | Physical mobility | Sleep | Social isolation | Total NHP | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mean (SD) | % With problems | Mean (SD) | % With problems | Mean (SD) | % With problems | Mean (SD) | % With problems | Mean (SD) | % With problems | Mean (SD) | % With problems | Mean (SD) | % With problems | ||||||||||||||
| Parkinson’s disease n=233 | 13.1 (17.0) | 53 | 26.3 (33.3) | 46 | 22.0 (24.6) | 67 | 41.2 (31.7) | 80 | 27.2 (28.4) | 73 | 20.4 (23.6) | 53 | 137.1 (97.3) | 93 | |||||||||||||
| Healthy elderly n=100 | 6.3 (13.5) | 27 | 10.0 (21.2) | 22 | 13.5 (22.5) | 9 | 11.1 (16.2) | 41 | 19.4 (28.4) | 49 | 10.8 (17.6) | 34 | 67.6 (83.7) | 76 | |||||||||||||
Scores range from 0 indicating no problems to 100 indicating all possible problems within an area. All of the differences between the values of the two groups are significant at the 1% level (p<0.01), Mann–Whitney test.