Session Information
Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Session Title: Phenomenology and Clinical Assessment Of Movement Disorders
Session Time: 1:15pm-2:45pm
Location: Exhibit Hall C
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the level of knowledge of LIDs in PD patients and their proxies in a tertiary hospital.
Background: Levodopa-induced dyskinesias (LIDs) are the most common side effects of long-term dopaminergic treatment in Parkinson’s disease1 (PD). Indeed, patients who experience this symptom hardly ever complain about dyskinesias and simply tend to report using non-specific terms2. The patients’ and proxies’ level of knowledge about LIDs is not known.
Methods: Thirty patients and twenty-seven proxies were enrolled. The data of this cross-sectional research was collected via survey and instructional videos.
Results: Only 22.8% (n=13) participants assert that they know the meaning of LIDs. Even after reading the definition of LIDs, 5.3 % (n=3) of them were still not able to identify the problem and 3.5% (n=2) missed the instructional video.
Conclusions: Knowledge of LIDs in PD patients and their proxies is low in tertiary hospitals and not even the instructional video was able to fully correct the problem. Improvement in comprehension of LIDs would bear a positive effect on treatment. It can be assumed that values in primary care could be even lower.
To cite this abstract in AMA style:
R. Doyle Maia, F. Cardoso, P. Caramelli. Knowledge of Levododopa-induced Dyskinesias among PD patients [abstract]. Mov Disord. 2017; 32 (suppl 2). https://www.mdsabstracts.org/abstract/knowledge-of-levododopa-induced-dyskinesias-among-pd-patients/. Accessed June 14, 2025.« Back to 2017 International Congress
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