TY - JOUR PY - 2024// TI - In their own words: fears expressed by people with Parkinson's disease in an online symptom database JO - Journal of Parkinson's disease A1 - Mantri, Sneha A1 - Purks, Jennifer L. A1 - Kinel, Daniel A1 - Arbatti, Lakshmi A1 - Hosamath, Abhishek A1 - Allen, Allison A1 - Amara, Amy A1 - Anderson, Karen A1 - Chahine, Lana M. A1 - Eberly, Shirley A1 - Mathur, Soania A1 - Standaert, David A1 - Oakes, David A1 - Weintraub, Daniel A1 - Shoulson, Ira A1 - Marras, Connie SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - Parkinson's disease (PD) carries substantial psychosocial burden. Using a database of responses by people with PD reporting up to five "most bothersome problems," we identified 225 fear-based verbatims, which were organized using the framework method into 26 categories. Commonly-reported fears included uncertainty of progression (n = 60, 26.7%), fear of future cognitive impairment (n = 24, 10.7%) and fear of becoming a burden on others (n = 23, 10.2%). Fears in PD are wide-ranging and can constitute the most bothersome aspect of the condition. These data can be used to design interventions to lessen the psychosocial burden of PD.

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LA - en SN - 1877-7171 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JPD-230305 ID - ref1 ER -