Utility of the REM sleep behavior disorder screening questionnaire (RBDSQ) in Parkinson’s disease patients

• Published in: Sleep medicine Vol. 12; no. 7; pp. 711 - 713
• Main Authors: Nomura, Takashi, Inoue, Yuichi, Kagimura, Tatsuo, Uemura, Yusuke, Nakashima, Kenji
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.08.2011
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Cut-off value; Female; Humans; Male; Mass Screening - methods; Mass Screening - standards; Middle Aged; Neurology; Parkinson Disease - complications; Parkinson’s disease; RBD; RBDSQ-J; REM Sleep Behavior Disorder - diagnosis; REM Sleep Behavior Disorder - etiology; Reproducibility of Results; ROC; ROC Curve; Screening; Sleep Medicine; Surveys and Questionnaires - standards; Screening; Cut-off value; RBDSQ-J; RBD; Parkinson’s disease; ROC

We evaluated the usefulness of the REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) screening questionnaire (RBDSQ) among patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Forty-five patients with PD were evaluated (22 male and 23 female, 72.9 ± 9.1 years old). After patients completed the RBDSQ, we conducted interviews reg...