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| Are there links between stress and the early onset of Parkinson's Disease? | | Author(s) | Guy Page |
| Journal title | PSIGE Newsletter, no 67, December 1998 |
| Publisher | Psychologists' Special Interest Group in Elderly People - PSIGE, British Psychological Society, December 1998 |
| Pages | pp 43-48 |
| Keywords | Parkinson's disease ; Anxiety ; Stress ; Correlation ; Leicestershire ; West Sussex ; East Sussex. |
| Annotation | The author, a Human Psychology undergraduate at De Montfort University, conducted this study to see if there is any correlation between major operations and/or stressful events and the early onset of Parkinson's Disease (PD). A questionnaire completed by 35 sufferers of PD at annual general meetings of Parkinson's Society branches in Leicestershire and Sussex revealed that as many as 77.14% of the respondents had experienced a major operation or a stressful situation or both in the ten years prior to the diagnosis of PD. Although correlational, this study may indicate that there is indeed a link between stress and the early onset of PD. The author has drawn up a more detailed questionnaire, to continue his research, and to obtain a larger number of respondents than for the first study. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990224007 A |
| Classmark | CR6: ENP: QNH: 49: 8LE: 8WE: 8E |
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