title: [Non-motor Symptoms Questionnaire and Scale for Parkinson's disease. Cross-cultural adaptation into the German language].
abstract: Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) is a multisytem degenerative disorder. In addition to motor symptoms such as akinesia, rigidity and tremor, various non-motor symptoms occur, which are still insufficiently diagnosed. Moreover, the frequently used scales and scores do not adequately detect these non-motor symptoms. The Non-motor Symptoms Questionnaire (NMSQuest) is an established self-completed patient questionnaire with 30 qualitative questions covering all important non-motor symptoms of PD. The Non-motor Symptoms Scale (NMSScale) is a grade rating scale for estimating the frequency and severity of non-motor symptoms in PD. Since there are only original English versions of both questionnaires available, self-translated versions were frequently used or the questionnaires were not used at all in native German patients. We used international guidelines for cross-cultural adaptation of questionnaires to provide standard versions of both non-motor symptoms questionnaires in the German language.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie, Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307, Dresden, Deutschland. Alexander.Storch@neuro.med.tu-dresden.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Storch
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Odin
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Trender-Gerhard
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fuchs
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Reifschneider
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ray Chaudhuri
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Jost
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ebersbach
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009460:Neurologic Examination / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating