Theatre Is a Valid Add-On Therapeutic Intervention for Emotional Rehabilitation of Parkinson’s Disease Patients

Table 3

values obtained from the Shapiro-Wilk test of normality for the two groups of PD patients (theatre group and control group) in all clinical scales and subscales at the beginning () and the end () of the rehabilitation treatments. values less than 0.05 indicate that the data are not from a normally distributed population and are indicated in bold. UPDRS:Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale; GFQ: Gait and Falls Questionnaire; PDQ39: Parkinson’s Disease Quality of Life Scale; PDSS: Parkinson’s Disease Sleep Scale.

	Theatre		Controls
	UPDRS I	0.147	0.563	0.109	0.370
UPDRS II	0.18	0.38	0.579	0.047
UPDRS III	0.666	0.638	0.596	0.375
UPDRS IV	0.303	0.091	0.175	0.762
Schwab and England Scale	0.020	0.012	0.051	0.004
GFQ	0.148	0.302	0.599	0.684
PDQ39 (total score)	0.240	0.542	0.062	0.784
PDQ39 (mobility)	0.834	0.526	0.247	0.667
PDQ39 (activities of daily living)	0.559	0.703	0.733	0.088
PDQ39 (Emotional well-being)	0.303	0.956	0.137	0.825
PDQ39 (stigma)	0.133	0.008	0.071	0.412
PDQ39 (social support)	0.144	0.083	0.333	0.598
PDQ39 (cognition)	0.201	0.109	0.143	0.135
PDQ39 (communication)	0.071	0.095	0.135	0.174
PDQ39 (bodily discomfort)	0.745	0.360	0.916	0.813
Beck Depression Inventory	0.126	0.324	0.103	0.013
Apathy Evaluation Scale	0.252	0.291	0.071	0.144
Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale	0.338	0.286	0.440	0.366
PDSS	0.702	0.341	0.343	0.479
Raven test	0.099	0.051	0.623	0.256
Stroop (word reading time)	0.448	0.659	0.393	0.189
Stroop (color reading time)	0.080	0.262	0.542	0.025
Stroop (interference reading time)	0.321	0.080	0.278	0.365
Rey immediate recall	0.778	0.757	0.128	0.088
Rey delayed recall	0.551	0.923	0.086	0.062
Forward digit span	0.197	0.543	0.432	0.354
Backward digit span	0.069	0.123	0.433	0.187
Phonological fluency test	0.382	0.216	0.450	0.416