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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 23.
Published in final edited form as: Mov Disord. 2015 Aug 7;31(1):126–134. doi: 10.1002/mds.26339

TABLE 1.

Characteristics of participants in development, reliability, and validity cohorts

Scale Development Cohort, n = 388 Mean (SD) Reliability Cohort, n = 50 Mean (SD) Validity Cohort, n = 68 Mean (SD)
Age 71.70 (9.90)a 73.88 (8.11) 74.19 (8.67)
Gender, % male 50.6 76.0 78.0
Disease duration, years 3.17 (3.67) 9.57 (5.64) 7.90 (5.40)
Education, years n/a 14.80 (3.07) 15.38 (2.82)
MDRS-2 total raw score n/a 127.58 (16.21) 120.91 (19.67)
UPDRS, part III n/a 34.68 (15.07) 34.40 (16.06)
KI Relationship, n = 357 (%)
Spouse 202 (56.6)
Child 105 (29.4)
Other 50 (14.0)
KI rating of patient motor severity, n = 375 (%)
I 55 (14.7)
II 43 (11.5)
III 174 (46.4)
IV 68 (18.1)
V 35 (9.3)
KI rating of patient cognitive severity, n = 369 (%)
None 69 (18.7)
Mild 139 (37.7)
Moderate 124 (33.6)
Severe 37 (10.0)
KI rating of patient depression, n = 388 (%)
None 121 (32.2)
Mild 102 (26.3)
Moderate 123 (31.7)
Severe 42 (10.8)
KI self-reported depression, n = 383 (%)
None 160 (41.8)
Mild 109 (28.5)
Moderate 95 (24.8)
Severe 19 (5.0)
a

Overall, 149 patients in the scale development cohort who participated by Web survey did not have data available regarding date of birth/age. Age is reported for remaining 239 subjects.

n/a, not applicable.