Objective: Purpose of investigation was to study the effect of motor disorders to quality of life of patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Background: In recent years, developed various methodsfor study of quality of patient’s life. However, the factors that influence its formation are associated with both the disease itself, and with the personality characteristics of the patient, remain poorly understood.

Methods: Examined 24 patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) at the age from 43 to 70 years (mean age 63,1±7,2 years) and 15 patients with essential tremor (ET) at the age from 45 to 72 years (mean age 64,2±10,9 years). Quality of life have conducted using scales of merit rating of life in PD (Boer et al., 1996).

Results: The main symptoms of the disease in patients with PD were hypokinesia and rigidity, which occurred in all patients, as well as resting tremor (observed in 87,5% of patients) and postural instability (8,3%). The results of merit rating of life correlated with data of evidence of hypokinesia (p<0,05), but not correlated with age, duration of disease and evidence of the tremor. In 33,3% of patients with ET celebrated isolated tremor of the hands, in 40% of patients involved tremor hands and head, at 26,7% the process spread to the vocal cords, lips and jaw. Unlike, in patients with ET quality of life correlated with the age of patients, duration of the disease and evidence of tremor (p<0,005).

Conclusions: The quality of life of patients with PD depends primarily on the evidence of postural instability, rigidity and hypokinesia, but does not correlate with disease duration and age.

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