Group comparison between patients with active and passive coping
| Variable | Coping strategy | ||||
| Active | Passive | P value | |||
| N | % | N | % | ||
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 56 | 53.8 | 48 | 46.2 | 0.031 |
| Female | 21 | 36.2 | 37 | 63.8 | |
| Marital status | |||||
| Single | 15 | 51.7 | 14 | 48.3 | 0.631 |
| Married | 41 | 46.6 | 47 | 53.4 | |
| Education | |||||
| High | 36 | 67.9 | 17 | 32.1 | 0.001 |
| Middle | 13 | 30.2 | 30 | 69.8 | |
| Low | 8 | 36.4 | 14 | 63.6 | |
| Motor subtype | |||||
| Tremor | 5 | 33.3 | 10 | 66.7 | 0.109 |
| PIGD | 42 | 56.0 | 33 | 44.0 | |
| Mean | SD | 95 % CI | Mean | SD | 95% CI | ||||
| Lower | Upper | Lower | Upper | ||||||
| Age | 70.1 | 9.9 | 67.8 | 72.3 | 71.2 | 9.5 | 69.1 | 73.3 | 0.303 |
| Disease duration | 6.3 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 7.7 | 10.9 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 13.5 | 0.017 |
| MDS-UPDRS I | 9.8 | 6.6 | 7.8 | 11.9 | 16.0 | 7.8 | 13.3 | 18.7 | <0.001 |
| MDS-UPDRS II | 14.0 | 8.6 | 11.3 | 16.7 | 18.8 | 10.4 | 15.4 | 22.3 | 0.040 |
| MDS-UPDRS III | 23.7 | 15.8 | 19.0 | 28.4 | 32.2 | 15.5 | 27.4 | 37.1 | 0.003 |
| MDS-UPDRS IV | 3.3 | 4.4 | 1.9 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 5.2 | 2.7 | 6.3 | 0.322 |
| NMS-Q | 9.2 | 5.0 | 7.6 | 10.9 | 11.5 | 4.9 | 9.9 | 13.1 | 0.048 |
| MoCA | 26.0 | 2.4 | 25.2 | 26.8 | 24.7 | 2.7 | 23.8 | 25.6 | 0.036 |
| BDI-II | 6.1 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 7.5 | 18.0 | 10.7 | 13.6 | 22.3 | <0.001 |
| SF-36 PCS | 33.1 | 4.5 | 31.9 | 34.4 | 32.2 | 4.1 | 31.1 | 33.3 | 0.273 |
| SF-36 MCS | 38.6 | 5.8 | 36.9 | 40.2 | 33.2 | 5.8 | 31.6 | 34.7 | <0.001 |
Bold values indicate significant results.
BDI, Beck depression inventory; MCS, mental component summary; MDS-UPDRS, Movement Disorder Society Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale; MoCA, Montreal cognitive assessment; NMS-Q, non-motors symptoms questionnaire; PCS, physical component summary; PIGD, postural instability/gait difficulty; SF-36, Short Form Health Survey 36.