Table 4.

Characteristics of patients with and without changes in medication.

Characteristic	No change in medication		Change by physician		Change by patient		p
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Gender
Female	36a	41.4	7a	26.9	6a	50.0	0.30
Male	51a	58.6	19a	73.1	6a	50.0
Marital status
Married	70a	81.4	20a	80.0	9a	75.0	0.83
Divorced/widowed	12a	14.0	4a	16.0	3a	25.0
Single	4a	4.7	1a	4.0	0	0.0
Educational level
Low	18a	20.9	7a	28.0	4a	33.3	0.13
Middle	38a	44.2	5a	20.0	6a	50.0
High	30a	34.9	13a	52.0	2a	16.7
Employment status
Pensioned	80a	92.0	23a	88.5	11a	91.7	0.88
Employed	6a	6.9	2a	7.7	1a	8.3
Unemployed	1a	1.1	1a	3.8	02	0.0
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age (yr)	70.4a	7.2	68.9a	10.4	69.5a	7.4	0.71
H&Y stage (median, IQR)	2.5 a	1	3.0 a	0.5	2.5 a	1.0
MDS-UPDRS III	22.7a	10.2	28.0a	13.6	27.3a	10.2	0.06
LEDD (mg)	575.0a	343.4	620.9a	302.1	763.3a	446.2	0.23
Disease duration (yr)	8.2a	5.2	7.9a	5.8	7.9a	4.1	0.94
NMSQ	10.6a	4.6	11.2a	5.8	9.3a	4.8	0.54
MoCA	23.5a	2.9	23.6a	3.0	22.5a	3.4	0.56
BDI-II	12.2a	8.7	12.7a	9.5	14.2a	8.4	0.77
SAMS total	5.1a	5.3	6.8a	5.1	14.5b	11.9	<0.001
SAMS subscore missing knowledge	0.4a	0.8	0.5a	0.7	0.7a	0.8	0.36
SAMS subscore modification	0.1a	0.2	0.1a	0.2	0.7b	1.2	<0.001
SAMS subscore forgetting	0.4a	0.5	0.5a	0.4	1.3b	1.1	<0.001

Values in the same row and subtable where the subscripts are not identical differ greatly at p < 0.05 in the two-sided test for equality for column portions. With the help of the Bonferroni correction, the tests are adapted to all pairwise comparisons within a line of the innermost subtable.