Survey on Illness Perception in 128 Parkinson's Disease Patients in China

128 patients with Parkinson's disease from a tertiary hospital in Anhui Province, China, were surveyed between February and November 2023. The cross-sectional study used the Chinese version of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (CIPQ-R) and a general information questionnaire. Author Wen Ma published the results under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Predicting negative illness perception based on demographic and clinical factors like gender and disease duration.
• Identifying high-risk patient groups for negative perception based on marital status and education level.
• Analyzing the relationship between H-Y stage and scores on emotional representation and consequence subscales.
• Training models to stratify patients for targeted support interventions based on regression analysis results.

Strengths

• Data includes 128 patient records from a defined clinical setting.
• Analysis includes specific statistical results, such as emotional representation scores of 21.14 ± 3.44.
• The study design and data collection period (Feb-Nov 2023) are clearly stated.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single hospital in Anhui Province, China.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey using convenience sampling and standardized questionnaires.

Time Range

Data collected between February and November 2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 04:29:16; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Patients enrolled from the Neurology Department of a tertiary hospital in Anhui Province, China.