Psychosis Assessment in Early-Stage Parkinson’s Disease: Comparing Parkinson’s Psychosis Questionnaire with the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale in a Portuguese Sample
Psychotic symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD) are frequent, disabling, and an important prognostic factor. Thus, screening instruments for detecting psychosis in PD are needed. For this purpose, we applied the Parkinson’s Psychosis Questionnaire (PPQ), a short structured questionnaire, which requir...
Main Authors: | , , , , , |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Hindawi Limited
2012-01-01
|
Series: | Parkinson's Disease |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/469126 |