Gait & Posture
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 459-463 , November 2009

Reliability of the new freezing of gait questionnaire: Agreement between patients with Parkinson's disease and their carers

  • Alice Nieuwboer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Tervuursevest 101, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium. Tel.: +32 16 32 9119; fax: +32 16 32 9197.
    • ,
  • Lynn Rochester

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Ageing and Health, Clinical Ageing Research Unit, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Talia Herman

      Affiliations

    • Movement Disorders Unit, Parkinson Center, Sourasky Medical Centre Tel-Aviv, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Wim Vandenberghe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosciences, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
    • ,
  • George Ehab Emil

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
    • ,
  • Tom Thomaes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
    • ,
  • Nir Giladi

      Affiliations

    • Movement Disorders Unit, Parkinson Center, Sourasky Medical Centre Tel-Aviv, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Received 4 February 2009 ,Revised 19 June 2009 ,Accepted 2 July 2009.

References 

  1. Giladi N, Nieuwboer A. Understanding and treating freezing of gait in Parkinsonism. Proposed working definition and setting the stage. Mov Disord. 2008;23(Suppl. 2):S423–S425
  2. Lamberti P, Armenise S, Castaldo V, de Mari M, Iliceto G, Tronci P, et al. Freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease. Eur Neurol. 1997;38(4):297–301
  3. Giladi N, Treves TA, Simon ES, Shabtai H, Orlov Y, Kandinov B, et al. Freezing of gait in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease. J Neural Transm. 2001;108(1):53–61
  4. Macht M, Kaussner Y, Möller JC, Stiasny-Kolster K, Eggert KM, Krüger HP, et al. Predictors of freezing in Parkinson's disease: a survey of 6,620 patients. Mov Disord. 2007;22(7):953–956
  5. Lim I, van Wegen E, Jones D, Rochester L, Nieuwboer A, Willems AM, et al. Identifying fallers with Parkinson's disease using home-based tests: who is at risk?. Mov Disord. 2008;23(16):2411–2415
  6. Moore O, Peretz C, Giladi N. Freezing of gait affects quality of life of people with Parkinson's disease beyond its relationship with mobility and gait. Mov Disord. 2007;22(15):2192–2195
  7. Snijders AH, Nijkrake MJ, Bakker M, Munneke M, Wind C, Bloem B. Clinimetrics of freezing of gait. Mov Disord. 2008;23(Suppl. 2):S468–S474
  8. Moore ST, MacDougall HG, Ondo WG. Ambulatory monitoring of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease. J Neurosci Methods. 2008;167(2):340–348
  9. Giladi N, Shabtai H, Simon E, Biran S, Tal J, Korczyn AD. Construction of freezing of gait questionnaire for patients with Parkinsonism. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2000;6(3):165–170
  10. Giladi N, Tal J, Azulay T, Rascol O, Brooks DJ, Melamed E, et al. Validation of the freezing of gait questionnaire in patients with Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord. 2009;24(5):655–661
  11. Goetz CG, Tilley BC, Shaftman SR, Stebbins GT, Fahn S, Martinez-Martin P, et al. Movement disorder society UPDRS revision task force. Movement disorder society-sponsored revision of the unified Parkinson's disease rating scale (MDS-UPDRS): scale presentation and clinimetric testing results. Mov Disord. 2008;23(15):2129–2170
  12. Schaafsma JD, Balash Y, Gurevich T, Bartels AL, Hausdorff JM, Giladi N. Characterization of freezing of gait subtypes and the response of each to levodopa in Parkinson's disease. Eur J Neurol. 2003;10(4):391–398
  13. Stack EL, Ashburn AM, Jupp KE. Strategies used by people with Parkinson's disease who report difficulty turning. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2006;12(2):87–92
  14. Williams-Gray CH, Foltynie T, Brayne CE, Robbins TW, Barker RA. Evolution of cognitive dysfunction in an incident Parkinson's disease cohort. Brain. 2007;130(7):1787–1798
  15. Janvin C, Aarsland D, Larsen JP, Hugdahl K. Neuropsychological profile of patients with Parkinson's disease without dementia. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2003;15(3):126–131
  16. Hughes AJ, Daniel SE, Kilford L, Lees AJ. Accuracy of clinical diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease: a clinico-pathological study of 100 cases. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1992;55(3):181–184
  17. Fahn S, Elton E. The unified Parkinson's disease rating scale. In:  Calne D editors. Recent developments in Parkinson's disease. New Jersey: Macmillan Healthcare Information; 1987;p. 153–163
  18. Landis JR, Koch GG. The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data. Biometrics. 1977;33(1):159–174
  19. Shrout PE, Fleiss JL. Intraclass correlations: uses in assessing rater reliability. Psychol Bull. 1979;86:420–428
  20. Bland JM, Altman DG. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet. 1986;1(8486):307–310
  21. Shulman LM, Pretzer-Aboff I, Anderson KE, Stevenson R, Vaughan CG, Gruber-Baldini AL, et al. Subjective report versus objective measurement of activities of daily living in Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord. 2006;21(6):794–799
  22. Martínez-Martín P, Benito-León J, Alonso F, Catalán MJ, Pondal M, Tobías A, et al. Patients’, doctors’, and caregivers’ assessment of disability using the UPDRS-ADL section: are these ratings interchangeable?. Mov Disord. 2003;18(9):985–992
  23. Lord S, Rochester L, Baker K, Nieuwboer A. Concurrent validity of accelerometry to measure gait in Parkinsons Disease. Gait Posture. 2008;27(2):357–359
  24. Bartels AL, Balash Y, Gurevich T, Schaafsma JD, Hausdorff JM, Giladi N. Relationship between freezing of gait (FOG) and other features of Parkinson's: FOG is not correlated with bradykinesia. J Clin Neurosci. 2003;10(5):584–588
  25. Okuma Y. Freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease. J Neurol. 2006;253(Suppl. 7):vii27–vii32
  26. Giladi N, Hausdorff JM. The role of mental function in the pathogenesis of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Sci. 2006;248(1–2):173–176

PII: S0966-6362(09)00200-8

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.07.108

Gait & Posture
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 459-463 , November 2009

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution