Research Article

The Influence of Parkinson’s Disease Motor Symptom Asymmetry on Hand Performance: An Examination of the Grooved Pegboard Task

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of participants with PD.

Right-side affectedLeft-side affected

Number7986
Male : female49 : 3054 : 32
AgeM = 70.21, SD = 10.36M = 71.78, SD = 8.32
UPDRSM = 27.46, SD = 10.30M = 29.68, SD = 10.71
Right UPDRSM = 11.67, SD = 3.86M = 7.92, SD = 3.83
Left UPDRSM = 7.14, SD = 4.06M = 11.99, SD = 4.11
|Right–left|M = 5.13, SD = 3.25M = 4.28, SD = 3.02
0.54.5n = 41n = 53
5n = 28n = 29
10+n =10n = 4