Visual Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale: A Universal Iconic Questionnaire for Epidemiological Studies in India

• Main Author: Arno Klein
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2016-05-01
• Series: Research Ideas and Outcomes
• Subjects: Parkinson disease; UPDRS; visual rating scale
• Online Access: https://riojournal.com/article/8834/

There is a great need to gather data from vast populations to better understand the distribution of Parkinson’s disease and the variation in its symptoms, ultimately to aid in its diagnosis, determination of symptom severity, and prediction of disease progression in individuals. Toward these ends, we propose to take the most commonly administered Parkinson’s questionnaire and make it universally intelligible across languages, cultures, and education levels, as well as intuitive and engaging, by creating and evaluating a “Visual Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale” (VPDRS). To administer a consistent and widely accessible implementation of the VPDRS to Parkinson’s patients in the U.S. and in India, we will deploy it on a mobile phone application, and store the data on server technology that we have developed and will establish in India for managing large-scale data collection from mobile devices in future studies.