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Background: The burden of non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD) can be measured with the Non-Motor Symptoms Scale (NMSS) and the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society Non-Motor Rating Scale (MDS-NMS), for which scoring systems, structure and clinical coverage differ.
Objectives: The goal was to develop conversion formulas between the NMSS and the MDS-NMS scores.
Methods: Data from 402 patients with PD participating in the primary MDS-NMS validation study were used. The association between domain and total scores of both scales was assessed by the Spearman rank correlation coefficient and Kendall's W concordance coefficient. Equations for between-scale transformation of total score were constructed from weighted linear regression models.
Results: Spearman rank correlations showed that MDS-NMS domains correlated 0.39 to 0.88 with the corresponding NMSS domains. The equation for transforming the NMSS total score to MDS-NMS total score is: MDS-NMS = 11.629 + 1.624 × NMSS (P < 0.001, R = 0.748). For converting the MDS-NMS total score to NMSS total score, the formula is NMSS = 2.475 + 0.495 × MDS-NMS (P < 0.001, R = 0.771).
Conclusions: Our conversion equations enable direct comparison of the NMSS and MDS-NMS instruments, facilitating data comparability across studies. © 2025 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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Eur J Oncol Nurs
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J Med Internet Res
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Joondalup Health Campus, Joondalup, Australia.
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