Pain and Parkinson disease in the elderly
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Pain is a frequent complaint in Parkinson disease (PD), but also in general elderly population. Its impact on daily life is considered to be high. The McGill Questionnaire (Br-MPQ) is an instrument developed to measure the magnitude of pain impact on life quality. Objective. Measure the pain impact on life of old patients with and without PD. Method. Br-MPQ was applied in a group of PD patients (GI=15) and in age-matched controlled subjects (GII=15). Results. Pain was reported in 53% of GI (n=8) and in 47% of GII (n=7). A small increase of Br-MPQ negative answers about social and daily life activities in GI was observed, but without significant statistical differences in none of Br-MPQ items (p>0.05). Conclusion. In face of recent literature, these data are dissonant, but it is important to note that the sample is small and no generalizations are permitted. It is possible, however, to speculate that other PD major dysfunctions might overcome the pain impact measured by Br-MPQ or, perhaps, this instrument could not be suitable. A possible bias resulted from differences of educational level of the studied subjects and the great difference sex-related between GI and GII should be also considered.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".