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Quality of sexual life in Parkinson's disease
O Moore1, T Gurevich, A D Korczyn
1The Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, 6 Weizmann Street, 64239 Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Abstract:
Ninety-one consecutive patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) were asked to grade their general satisfaction from life (GSL) and completed the PDQ-39 and the quality of sexual life questionnaire (QoSL-Q). The reliability of the QoSL-Q was 0.74. Satisfaction from sexual life as reflected by the QoSL-Q significantly decreased with aging (P<0.01) and advanced disease (P<0.05). No correlation was found between the PDQ-39 and the QoSL index. The correlation between the PDQ-39 and GSL (r=-0.334) improved by adding the QoSL-Q, as a 9th dimension to the PDQ-39 (r=-0.405). The QoSL-Q is a reliable tool assessed a unique and important dimension not evaluated by the PDQ-39.