What is it about?
This paper sought to investigate if there exists any significant relationship between marital status, pain and depression in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD).
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Why is it important?
Until this paper came, no other work had looked at the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) such as pain and depression in relation to whether the patient was single or married. This paper found that PD patients that are single are more likely to suffer from depression than PD patients that are married. Single PD patients were also more likely to report pain interfering with daily activities of their life compared to married PD patients.
Perspectives
A lot of people my age think about marriage. This thinking eventually led myself and my supervisor with the idea of incorporating this lovely concept with our research into non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. We nicknamed this paper ("her") the Marital Study. Within about 4 months of hard work and effort on this said project, we finally gave her hand to Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. :)
Abdul Rehman Qureshi
Parkinson's Clinic of Eastern Toronto
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This page is a summary of: Associations of pain and depression with marital status in patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, July 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ane.12454.
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