Validation of the Slovak version of the Movement Disorder Society –  Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (MDS‑ UPDRS)


Authors: M. Škorvánek 1,2;  Z. Košutzká 3;  P. Valkovič 3,4;  R. Ghorbani Saeedian 2;  Z. Gdovinová 1;  N. Lapelle 5;  J. Huang 6;  B. C. Tilley 6;  G. T. Stebbins 7;  C. G. Goetz 7
Authors‘ workplace: Neurologická klinika LF UPJŠ a UN L. Pasteura Košice 1;  Kosice Institute of Society and Health, LF UPJŠ v Košiciach 2;  II. neurologická klinika LF UK a UNBratislava, Nemocnica akad. L. Dérera 3;  Laboratórium regulácie motoriky, Ústav normálnej a patologickej fyziológie SAV, Bratislava 4;  University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA 5;  University of Texas, School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA 6;  Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA 7
Published in: Cesk Slov Neurol N 2013; 76/109(4): 463-468
Category: Original Paper

Overview

Following its critique, recommendations for revision of the original version of the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) were published. Subsequently, the Movement Disorder Society (MDS) – sponsored revision entitled Movement Disorder Society – Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) was presented. After its successful clinimetric testing, a programme for translation and validation of non-English versions of the MDS-UPDRS was initiated. The aim of this study was to validate and confirm the factor structure of the Slovak translation of the MDS-UPDRS. We examined 354 patients with Parkinson’s disease in all Hoehn and Yahr stages with the Slovak version of the MDS-UPDRS. The mean age of our sample was 68 ± 9.5 years and the mean disease duration was 6.7 ± 5.1 years. Slovak data were compared using confirmatory factor analysis with the original English language data. The pre-specified criterion for approving the Slovak translation as an official version of the MDS-UPDRS was the comparative fit index (CFI) ≥ 0.90 for all four parts of the Slovak MDS-UPDRS. An exploratory factor analysis was performed to explore the underlying factor structure without the constraints of a pre-specified factor structure. When compared to the English-language factor structure, the CFI for all four parts of the Slovak MDS-UPDRS was 0.91 or greater. Isolated differences in factor structure of the Slovak MDS-UPDRS compared to the English version were identified by exploratory factor analysis. The Slovak version of the MDS-UPDRS was accredited as the sixth official non-English translation of the MDS-UPDRS and can be downloaded from the Movement Disorder Society’s website (http://www.movementdisorders.org/publications/rating_scales/), along with training materials using the Slovak translation. In this paper, we also present the major changes and advantages of the Slovak MDS-UPDRS compared with the original UPDRS.

Key words:
rating scales – validation – factor analysis


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