Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis, Perceptions, Awareness, and Care in Kenya, PACKs WP1 Prevalence of PD

KENYA, 2024
Health and Well-Being (HaW)

Dr Gershim Asikii, MD PhD, Dickens Samuel Aduda MPH, PhD

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2.8.2 Have you ever had tremors of your head, arm, or legs that lasted more than (q2p7p2)

Data file: Household survey data

Overview

vald 1274

invd 0

Interval discrete

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Range 1 - 3

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Have you ever had tremors of your head, arm, or legs that lasted more than 1 day?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	No	1182	92.8%
2	Yes	91	7.1%
3	Dont Know	1	0.1%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Question pretext

Parkinson's disease screening questions

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Interviewer instructions

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Description

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Experience of tremors ( extreme shaking) in their head, arm or legs that has lasted more than a day

Universe

Older people aged 60+ years

others

Notes

"2.8.2 Have you ever had tremors of your head, arm, or legs that lasted more than 1 day?"