Self-Reported Executive Functioning in Everyday Life in Parkinson’s Disease after Three Months of Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation

Table 4

Comparison of the SCL-90-R Global Severity Index (GSI) and the nine symptom dimensions between age- and gender-matched Norwegian normative population and patients’ scores preoperatively and after three months of STN-DBS. Data are presented as mean-scores and standard deviations (SD) along with mean differences between patients’ scores preoperatively and at three months follow-up and values.

	Age- and gender- matched normative sample; Mean (SD)	Preoperatively; Mean (SD)	3-month follow-up; Mean (SD)	Mean difference; (SD)	value
Global Severity Index (GSI)	0.3 (0.0)	0.5 (0.4)	0.4 (0.3)	0.1 (0.4)	0.119
Somatization (SOM) scale	0.4 (0.0)	0.8 (0.6)	0.7 (0.4)	0.2 (0.8)	0.203
Obsessive-Compulsive (O-C) scale	0.4 (0.0)	0.8 (0.6)	0.6 (0.5)	0.1 (0.7)	0.379
Interpersonal Sensitivity (I-S) scale	0.3 (0.0)	0.4 (0.5)	0.3 (0.3)	0.1 (0.5)	0.112
Depression (DEP) scale	0.3 (0.1)	0.7 (0.5)	0.5 (0.4)	0.1 (0.5)	0.224
Anxiety (ANX) scale	0.2 (0.0)	0.6 (0.5)	0.3 (0.3)	0.2 (0.6)	0.038
Hostility (HOS) scale	0.2 (0.0)	0.2 (0.3)	0.2 (0.2)	0.0 (0.3)	0.998
Phobic Anxiety (PHOB) scale	0.2 (0.0)	0.2 (0.5)	0.3 (0.4)	0.0 (0.6)	0.731
Paranoid Ideation (PAR) scale	0.2 (0.1)	0.2 (0.4)	0.2 (0.3)	0.0 (0.4)	0.539
Psychoticism (PSY) scale	0.2 (0.0)	0.2 (0.3)	0.1 (0.2)	0.1 (0.3)	0.209