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Recognition and Treatment of Depressive Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease: The NPF Dataset

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Bega, Danny | Wu, Sam S. | Pei, Qinglin | Schmidt, Peter N. | Simuni, Tanya

Affiliations: Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA | Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA | Research and Professional Programs, National Parkinson Foundation, Miami, FL, USA

Note: [] Correspondence to: Danny Bega, MD., Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 710N Lake Shore Drive, Abbott Hall, 1409 Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Tel.: +1 312 503 2919; E-mail: [email protected]

Keywords: Parkinson's disease, depression, NPF

DOI: 10.3233/JPD-140382

Journal: Journal of Parkinson's Disease, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 639-643, 2014

Published: 2014
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Abstract

Depression is a major determinant of Health Related Quality of Life in PD, but there is limited data on physician recognition of depression and treatment efficacy. We used data obtained from the QII dataset of the National Parkinson's Foundation database to determine whether there was an association between depressive symptoms and utilization of antidepressants and/or mental health services (MHS) in a large cohort of PD patients. We found that prevalence of depressive symptoms remained high in the PD population despite improved physician recognition and treatment initiation.

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