Table 2.
Demographic and clinical characteristics.
| n | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Female | 131 | 58.0 |
| Male | 95 | 42.0 | |
| Marital status | Married | 161 | 71.2 |
| Single, divorced, widowed, separated | 61 | 27.0 | |
| Missing data | 4 | 1.8 | |
| Education level | High | 90 | 39.8 |
| Middle | 84 | 37.2 | |
| Low | 46 | 20.4 | |
| Missing data | 6 | 2.6 | |
| Mean | SD | ||
| Age (years) | 70.9 | 7.9 | |
| SAMS total | 7.4 | 7.7 | |
| Number of drugs per day | 5.9 | 3.3 | |
| Disease duration (years) | 9.4 | 6.9 | |
| Levodopa equivalent daily dose (mg) | 681 | 542 | |
| MDS-UPDRS II | 18.2 | 9.03 | |
| MDS-UPDRS III | 26.9 | 15.3 | |
| MDS-UPDRS IV | 4.2 | 4.1 | |
| Non-motor symptoms questionnaire total | 11.3 | 5.4 | |
| Becks Depression Inventory II total | 12.7 | 8.6 | |
| Montreal Cognitive Assessment total | 24.7 | 2.9 | |
| Median | IQR | ||
| Hoehn & Yahr stage | 3 | 1 | |
MDS-UPDRS, Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale; SAMS, German Stendal Adherence with Medication Score; Education levels: low (no school, German Hauptschule), middle (General Certificate of Secondary Education, German Realschule), high (German Abitur or University). IQR, interquartile range.