ArticleBrain sciences2020
Alexithymia Is Associated with Reduced Quality of Life and Increased Caregiver Burden in Parkinson's Disease.
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- The Quality in Quality of Life in Parkinson's Disease: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2024Pooled it
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- Discordance between Reports of Internalized Symptoms in Persons with Parkinson's Disease and Informants: Results from an Online Survey.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2024Article
- Caregiver Burden in Parkinson Disease: A Scoping Review of the Literature from 2017-2022.Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology · 2024Article
- Emotion Recognition in Multiple System Atrophy: An Exploratory Eye-Tracking Study.Journal of movement disorders · 2024Article
- Alexithymia impairs quality of life in irritable bowel syndrome.Future science OA · 2023Article
- The Relationship among Dyadic Adjustment and Disease Burden in Patients with Bipolar Disorder and Their Spouses.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Disease modification in Parkinsonism: obstacles and ways forward.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2022Review
- Alexithymia in Adolescents with Acne: Association with Quality of Life Impairment and Stigmatization.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease Patients Are Associated with Reduced Health-Related Quality of Life and Increased Caregiver Burden.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Analysis of Transition of Patients with Parkinson's Disease into Institutional Care: A Retrospective Pilot Study.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Relationship Satisfaction in People with Parkinson's Disease and Their Caregivers: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- One Year Trajectory of Caregiver Burden in Parkinson's Disease and Analysis of Gender-Specific Aspects.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Alexithymia.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2021Review
- Validation of the Parkinson's Disease Caregiver Burden Questionnaire in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.Parkinson's disease · 2021Article
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Abstract
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most frequent neurodegenerative disease of people who are beyond 50 years of age. People with PD (PwP) suffer from a large variety of motor and non-motor symptoms resulting in reduced health-related quality of life (HR-QoL). In the last two decades, alexithymia was identified as an additional non-motor symptom in PD. Alexithymia is defined as a cognitive affective disturbance resulting in difficulty to identify and distinguish feelings from bodily sensations of emotional arousal. In PD, the frequency of patients suffering of alexithymia is increased compared to healthy controls. The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship of alexithymia to HR-QoL of the PwP and caregiver burden of the corresponding caregiver. This cross-sectional questionnaire-based study used disease specific questionnaires for HR-QoL and caregiver burden. In total 119 PwP and their corresponding caregivers were included in the study. HR-QoL of the PwP correlated significantly with alexithymia (
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