Evaluation of Motor Complications in Parkinson’s Disease: Understanding the Perception Gap between Patients and Physicians

Table 1

Patient demographics and baseline clinical characteristics from patient questionnaires.

Characteristics	N = 235
Age, mean (SD), years	74.0 (9.4)
<65, n (%)	31 (13.2)
≥65, n (%)	204 (86.8)
Age at PD diagnosis, mean (SD), years	65.3 (10.8)
Duration of PD, mean (SD), years	8.5 (6.2)
Female, n (%)	122 (51.9)
H&Y stage, n (%)
1	27 (11.5)
2	30 (12.8)
3	60 (25.5)
4	63 (26.8)
5	22 (9.4)
Current employment status, n (%)
Full-time	19 (8.1)
Part-time	10 (4.3)
Housekeeping	54 (23.0)
Not working	152 (64.7)
Consultation time, mean (SD), minutes	15.8 (10.8)

H&Y: Hoehn and Yahr; PD: Parkinson’s disease; SD: standard deviation. Unknown/missing data are not listed. When the age was the same as the age at diagnosis, the age at diagnosis was regarded as missing data.