title: Quality of sexual life in Parkinson's disease.
abstract: Ninety-one consecutive patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) were asked to grade their general satisfaction from life (GSL) and completed the PDQ-39 and the quality of sexual life questionnaire (QoSL-Q). The reliability of the QoSL-Q was 0.74. Satisfaction from sexual life as reflected by the QoSL-Q significantly decreased with aging (P<0.01) and advanced disease (P<0.05). No correlation was found between the PDQ-39 and the QoSL index. The correlation between the PDQ-39 and GSL (r=-0.334) improved by adding the QoSL-Q, as a 9th dimension to the PDQ-39 (r=-0.405). The QoSL-Q is a reliable tool assessed a unique and important dimension not evaluated by the PDQ-39.
authors.affiliation: The Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, 6 Weizmann Street, 64239 Tel-Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gurevich
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Korczyn
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Anca
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shabtai
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Giladi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires