1997 Volume 57 Issue 6 Pages 541-550
We generated questionnaire tables for quality of life (QOL) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and cerebrovascular disease (CVD) to investigate in what aspects their QOL is low, especially in elderly patients with these two neurologic diseases. The questionnaire tables comprised background factors, physical health, functional health, psychologic health, and social health. The background factors included past history, number of family members (including patient), presence of PD or CVD, degree of disability, ability to walk and communicate, cognitive function, knowledge about social care system, will, satisfaction with rehabilitation and others.
Fifteen items were generated in each category of physical, functional, psychologic and social health for a total of 60 items. Although we included several disease-specific questions in the area of physical health, we tried to include as many common questions between PD and CVD as possible. Each of the 15 items in these four categories were classified into three ranks.
By using these tables, we would like to study in what aspects the QOL is low in elderly patients with PD and CVD and to investigate the effect of rehabilitation on QOL in these elderly patients.
