Research Article

Validation of the Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver Burden Questionnaire in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Table 1

Patient (n = 22, 13 females) and caregiver (n = 22, 12 females) characteristics.

Mean ± SDMinMax

PSP patients
 Age (years)69.1 ± 6.35378
 Disease duration (years)5 ± 2.3211
 PSP rating scale38.3 ± 16.51569
 PSP-QoL23.3 ± 16.66.179.9
 MoCA21.6 ± 5.1929
 GDS-155.7 ± 4.1015

Caregivers
 Age (years)62.3 ± 10.84081
 Relationship to PSP patients81.8% spouse living together with the patient and 18.2% child/child-in-law
 Caregiving hours per day7.4 ± 6.5124
 CBI32.4 ± 14.51061
 PDCB (total)34.6 ± 15.6661
 SF-36 (total)66.5 ± 19.232.391.7
 GDS-153.3 ± 3.6013