Research Article

Cross-Cultural Validity, Reliability, and Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the Scales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease-Psychosocial Questionnaire

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of Parkinson’s disease patients .

CharacteristicsValue

Age (yr)
 Mean (SD)
61.6 (11.0)
Gender number (%)
 Female34 (31)
 Male76 (69)
Level of education number (%)
 Illiterate8 (7)
 Primary and/or secondary28 (26)
 High school/diploma30 (28)
 College and/or university43 (39)
Duration of disease (yr)
 Mean (SD)
6.3 (4.7)
Comorbidities number (%)
 Depression25 (23)
 Hypertension18 (16)
 Cardiovascular disease17 (16)
 Osteoarthritis12 (11)
 Diabetes11 (10)
Hoehn and Yahr stage
 Mean (SD)
1.9 (0.9)
Schwab and England activities of daily living scale (%)
 Mean (SD)
82.0 (16.5)