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Dear Folks, we have a new Hungarian friend, Milena Dorotovics from Szegred, Hungary who is doing resesarch for an advanced degree in Psychology. Her father has PD. I filled out her questionnaire and she sent me some great photos and a history of the university town of Szegred in southern Hungary. If you woulld be willing to help her email her at Milena Dorotovics [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Europe, Hungary, Szeged, 6722, Jókai street 7. 3./20. Tel. 00 36 30 3 98 99 25 Thanks, Ray Dear Ray! I signed in Parkinson's forum in the internet. After that I get emails about the chat, so in this way I could find you. If you can help me to find more people I will be very grateful. Below I write a short summary of my thesis. Thanks again and have a good day. Lots of love Milena The aim of this study is to determine whether there are cultural differences in the way in which Anglo-Saxon and Hungarian people with Parkinson's disease conceptualise their illness and treatment. The relationships between patients' illness perceptions and their anxiety and coping mechanism are also assessed. Patients who view their illness as a serious condition with both frequent and serious symptoms and consequences, patients who believe their illness is chronic, and patients who consider their illness uncontrollable were found to engage more in passive coping strategies and to report higher levels of anxiety than those who believed the opposite. Participants complete questionnaires, which include standardised measures of personal beliefs about illness and medication; and state anxiety, generalized anxiety; and coping mechanism. Patients are invited to participate in the study via internet (Parkinson Forum, email). Questionnares: 1, Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) (Weinman,J., 1996) 2, Ways of Coping (Folkman,S., Lazarus,R.S., 1980) 3, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S and STAI-T, Spielberger, 1970) The results of the questionnares are confidential and will only be used for research purposes: excepting email address the test is anonymous. We take care about the indication. Patients will get back indication about their anxiety,coping and illness representations. Patients have the right to refuse and back out of the participating. Patients also have the power to claim feedback, interpretation. People with Parkinson's Disease is to be enrolled, we do not deny anybody for participating in the survey. If it is necessary we can ask patients for informed consent document. The research design minimizes risks to subjects, for example anonymity, indication. ----- Original Message ----- From: rayilynlee To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 5:14 AM Subject: my parkinson's list Milena, Do you want me to put your contact info on my Parkinson's list? Don't know how you found me. If you need more subjects (world wide) I think there would be people happy to help you. Best wishes, Ray _____________ NOD32 1.1454 (20060321) Információ _____________ Az üzenetet a NOD32 antivirus system megvizsgálta. http://www.nod32.hu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn