Development and Initial Validation of the Chinese Version of the Florida Surgical Questionnaire for Parkinson’s Disease

Table 1

Patient demographic information.

Disease	PD	Parkinsonism	MSA	Total
N	115	25	6	146
Sex	64M, 51F	8M, 17F	4M, 2F	76M, 70F
Age	65.2 ± 8.9	61.5 ± 10.0	63.8 ± 6.5	64.5 ± 9.0
Disease duration (y)	9.3 ± 5.5	3.1 ± 2.2	2.5 ± 1.0	7.9 ± 5.6

Mean ± standard deviation; N = the number of patients with the disease; M = male; F = female; PD = Parkinson’s disease; MSA = multiple system atrophy. Parkinsonism meant the patients were not idiopathic PD but presented with parkinsonian symptoms, and who were not yet diagnosed by neurologists as having MSA, progressive supranuclear palsy, Parkinson’s disease, or dementia.