Assessment of Nonmotor symptoms in patients with parkinson?s disease by using Nonmotor Symtoms Questionnaire

İdiopathic Parkinson?s Disease(PD) is a movement disorder with a high prevalance. Not only motor symptoms but also nonmotor symptoms (NMS) cause disability in patients with PD, NMS are reported 88% of IPD. NMS play an important role in decreasing the patient?s quality of life. Diagnosis and treatment of NMS are very important in patients for giving a modern healthcare. Because of this issue a questionnaire, NMSQuest , is made up by a group of specialists in order to detect nms in pd patients.This questionnaire has been validated by international studies. We have concluded for using nmsquest to detect nmses which are believed to be important in pd. By this way ,we aimed to underline the measurements which can be used in Turkey for this issue and to underline early diagnosis and treatment for NMS in IPD.A total of 75 cases diagnosed IPD , 29 female and 46 male, participated in this study. The severity and grade of pd are assessed by ?Hoehn-Yahr? scale and ?UPDRS?. Results are discussed according to current litterature. Association of NMS with the stage of the disease is investigated and its frequency between the cases are compared. İmportance of early diagnosis and treatment are underlined.Key words: parkinson disease, nmsquest questionnaire, nonmotor symptoms