Evaluation of quality of life and medication beliefs of Parkinson's patients

In this study, it was aimed to determine the quality of life and medication beliefs of Parkinson‟s paients, to identify individual characteristics that make a difference on quality of life and medications, and to reveal the relationship between medication beliefs and quality of life. 160 patients who diagnosed Parkinson Disease and receiving treatment at Hacettepe University Adult Hostpital were included to the study. Data were collected by applying the questionnaire form including Modified Hoehn Yahr Scoring scale, questions about sociodemographic characteristics, Parkinson's disease quality of life scale (PDQ-39) and Parkinson's disease Medication beliefs scale. In this study, it was evaluated whether there was a difference in Parkinson‟s disease quality of life and medication beliefs according to individual characteristics. Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were used to analyze the data. Spearman correlation analysis was used to determine the relationship between variables, and linear regression analysis was used to determine the effect of medication beliefs on quality of life. As a result of the research, there is a statistically significant difference in quality of life according to age, education, marital status, disease stage and living environment. According to the gender there is difference only emotional sub-dimention and social support and physical discomfort sub-dimentions differ according to smoking. In addition, it was determined that medication beliefs differ only according to the disease stage. When the relationship between medication beliefs and quality of life was examined, it was found that there was no relationship between quality of life and medication beliefs.