Translation of Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire -8 in Urdu Language

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parkinson Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05405153

RiphahIU Nayab Khurram

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cross cultural analytical study to translate Parkinson's disease questionnaire-8 in Urdu language. Along with the translated version by evaluating its validity and reliability among the patients of Parkinson's disease. No such study has been previously conducted in Pakistan which translate this questionnaire in

Urdu and follows the proper cross- culture adaptation. Condition or disease:

Parkinson's disease. Convenient sampling technique would be used

Full description

Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire-8 (PDQ-8) is the brief version of PDQ-39 formulated to reduce the respondent burden and for convenient use in clinical settings in patients of Parkinson's disease. (PDQ-8) is the patient reported outcome measure constructed by taking one question from each of the eight domains of PDQ-39 (mobility, activities of daily living, emotional well-being, stigma, social support, cognition, communication, and bodily discomfort. PDQ-8 will be translated into Urdu language by Beaton et al guidelines for cross cultural adaptation of tool. The validity and reliability of Urdu version of PDQ-8 will be evaluated by calculating Cronbach's alpha, intra-class correlation coefficient and Pearson/spearman rank correlation co-efficient.

Continuous variables will be shown by mean and standard deviation and the categories will be demonstrated in frequency and percentage. Factor structure of the PDQ-8 will be extracted using exploratory factor analysis (EFA), utilizing principal component analysis with varimax rotation.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 40-65 years
• Both genders
• Patients with diagnosed Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) by neurophysician
• Patient able to read Urdu Language. Patients who can participate in community, patients with cognitive issue, Patients with MMSE more than 24 will be included

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with any other neurological issue
• Patients who undergo brain surgery