The Dysarthria Impact Profile: A Preliminary French Experience with Parkinson’s Disease

Table 1

Demographics and characteristics of people with PD and control participants.

People with PD^a	Gender	Age (years)	Disease duration (years)	UPDRS score on medication	Controls^b	Gender	Age (years)
P1	Male	55	1.5	11	C1	Female	70
P2	Female	76	6.6	8	C2	Female	70
P3	Male	75	2.0	15	C3	Female	72
P4	Male	56	6.8	25	C4	Male	72
P5	Female	78	9.0	20	C5	Female	72
P6	Female	72	8.0	4	C6	Male	74
P7	Female	84	9.3	Missing data	C7	Female	83
P8	Male	47	1.0	13	C8	Male	70
P9	Male	64	0.3	8	C9	Male	70
P10	Male	79	2.0	23	C10	Female	71
Mean ± SD		68.6 ± 12.3	4.7 ± 3.6	14.1 ± 7.2			72.4 ± 3.9

^aThe selection criteria included patients diagnosed with idiopathic PD, no cognitive impairment, no history of hearing impairment, and no previous speech therapy rehabilitation. The cognitive state of the patients was evaluated using either the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale [30] or the Mini-Mental State Examination [31]. None of the participants had any evidence of cognitive impairment. ^bNone of the control subjects had any history of hearing or cognitive impairment or other neurologic or psychiatric disease.