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Anxiety in Parkinson's Disease and Its Measurement
Netík, Jan ; Lukavský, Jiří (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee)
This thesis introduces anxiety as one of the most common and important neuropsychiatric symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). It places anxiety in the context of other motor and non-motor symptoms and describes the circumstances of its onset and its potential role in early recognition of PD even before a clinical diagnosis is established and before the onset of characteristic motor symptoms. The thesis also touches on the difculties in measuring anxiety in PD and discusses selected models of anxiety and psychodiagnostic methods for its measurement, building in particular on Spielberger's concept of state and trait anxiety, which represents the basis for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), for which we construct the frst Czech norms in the empirical part of the work and verify some psychometric properties of the method on a population of healthy respondents. In the second study, the thesis examines the validity of measuring anxiety in a sample of previously untreated patients with idiopathic PD, who, according to the literature, have an early measurable increase in anxiety. We test whether the STAI can capture the diference between the normative sample and patients with newly diagnosed PD. The results show that the STAI can detect increased anxiety in these patients, although the...
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