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 2

Data distribution, description, and Spearman correlation for internal consistency of the SCOPA-PS scores in Iranian Parkinson’s disease patients .

ItemAnswer distribution number (%)Descriptive indexesSpearman Rho*
Not at all (0)A little (1)Quite a bit (2)Very much (3)MeanSD

Item 1 68%12%12%8% 0.600.990.656
Work
Item 2 65%11%18%6%0.660.990.623
Hobbies
Item 3 73%9%14%4%0.470.860.601
Interacting with others
Item 4 78%7%13%2%0.380.780.596
Significant others
Item 5 64%12%16%8%0.691.020.553
Sexuality
Item 6 56%10%19%15%0.951.170.703
Staying at home
Item 7 52%10%22%16%1.031.180.765
Help
Item 8 58%16%19%7%0.751.010.740
Lonely
Item 9 67%13%17%3%0.550.870.588
Conversation
Item 1057%15%17%11%0.821.080.578
Embarrassment
Item 11 29%19%33%19%1.421.100.565
Future
Total score (crude)8.337.33
Total score (relative %)25.2322.20

All correlation coefficients are statistically significant with .