Advance Directives of German People with Parkinson’s Disease Are Unspecific in regard to Typical Complications

Table 2

Disease-related data on study sample (N = 82).

Item	Answer option	N = 82
Disease-related data
Time since diagnosis	0–5 years	26 (31.7%)
	5–10 years	31 (37.8%)
	>10 years	23 (28.1%)
	Missing data	2 (2.4%)
Duration of PD course since diagnosis (years)	Mean ± SD	8.8 ± 5.7
	Range	1–26
	Missing data	2 (2.4%)
Time since symptom onset (years)	Mean ± SD	10.6 ± 6.4
	Range	2–30
	Missing data	5 (6.1%)
Current H&Y stage of disease	1	7 (8.5%)
	2	1 (1.2%)
	3	45 (54.9%)
	4	22 (26.8%)
	5	4 (4.9%)
	Missing data	3 (3.7%)

SD, standard deviation; PD, Parkinson’s disease; H&Y, Hoehn and Yahr stage.