Clinical Study

Rotigotine Objectively Improves Sleep in Parkinson’s Disease: An Open-Label Pilot Study with Actigraphic Recording

Table 1

Scale results before (T0) and during (T1) rotigotine treatment.

ScaleT0T1

UPDRS-III26 (18–41)22 (11–39)0.018
H&Y2 (2-2)2 (2-2)0.083
MMSE28 (27–30)30 (27–30)0.121
PDSS-220 (16–30)9 (4–20)0.001
ESS5 (4–6)2 (3–7)0.937
PDQ-3934 (19–55)29 (18–42)0.016
BDI7 (3–12)6 (5–13)0.977

UPDRS-III = Unified Parkinson’s Disease (PD) Rating Scale-part III; H&Y = Hoehn and Yahr Score; MMSE = Mini Mental State Examination; PDSS-2 = PD Sleep Scale-2; ESS = Epworth Sleep Scale; PDQ-39 = PD Questionnaire-39; BDI = Beck Depression Inventory. Data are expressed as medians and 25th–75th percentiles. = statistical significance .