Table 3.
External responsiveness of HRQoL in PD patients (N = 74)
| Changed HRQoL scores | AUCa (95% CI) | Correlation Coefficientb | Regression Model | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improved vs. stable | Worsening vs. stable | Improved vs. worsening | MDS-UPDRS Part II | GDS | MDS-UPDRS Part II | GDS | |||
| β | R2 | β | R2 | ||||||
| SF-36 | 0.656 (0.48 − 0.83) | 0.543 (0.39 − 0.70) | 0.695 (0.54 − 0.85) | −0.40** | −0.53** | −0.15 | 0.21*** | −0.18 | 0.23*** |
| PDQ-39 | 0.680 (0.51 − 0.85) | 0.625 (0.48 − 0.77) | 0.754 (0.61 − 0.90) | 0.45** | 0.29* | 0.25 | 0.26*** | 0.17 | 0.09* |
SF-36 36-item Short Form Health Survey, PDQ-39 39-item Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire, MDS-UPDRS Movement Disorder Society Revision of the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale, GDS Geriatric Depression Scale, AUC area under the curve, CI confidence interval
aExternal criterion is the MDS-UPDRS Part III; bUsed Spearman’s rank-correlation coefficients
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001