1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
FOUNDATION IN NATURE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTS
MTH30104-MATHEMATICS
GROUP ASSIGNMENT 1
TITLE: UNDERSTANDING ABOUT PARKINSON’S DISEASE
NAME STUDENT ID NUMBER GROUPING
LOH PEY MUN 0318572 N/A
LEE ERN HUI 0319703 N/A
CHANG VUI LOONG 0319198 N/A
LIEW YU XIAN 0319173 N/A
3. INTRODUCTION
Statistics is the study of collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation and organization of
data. Statistical analysis helps to understanding the possibility and making prediction based on
people’s understanding.
For this assignment, we need to choose one of the chronic disease and study how much
people understand about it and the awareness of people against it. After few discussion goes
through, we decided to choose Parkinson’s disease as our discuss topic. We need to focus on
female in two different age group which is 21-25 years old and 26-30 years old and study the
understanding level of each female age group on the Parkinson’s disease, which similar to ALS
but not commonly known by people. Our group consist of 4 members which is Chang Vui
Loong (Michael) , Loh Pey Mun, Lee Ern Hui (Michelle) and Liew Yu Xian.
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease that belongs to the group
of conditions called motor system disorders. PD cannot yet be cured and sufferers get worse
over time as the normal bodily functions, including breathing, balance, movement, and heart
function worsen. Parkinson’s disease most often occurs after the age of 50 and is one of the
most common nervous system disorders of the elderly. The disease is caused by the slow
deterioration of the nerve cells in the brain, which create dopamine. Dopamine is a natural
substancefound in the brain that helps controlmuscle movementthroughoutthe body.
Through this survey, we are able to identify the awareness and understanding level of females
in Malaysia on Parkinson’s Disease within different age group. This also create awareness
among the people and take this issuemore seriously.
4. OBJECTIVE
This assignment allow us to understand more about using statistic to organize our data.
It’s also allow us to analyze data and also draw conclusion from the data. We used
mathematical principle such as frequency to make our data more accurate.
On the other hand, we also need to identify the understanding level of females in
Malaysia on Parkinson’s disease. We prepared different kind of questions to collect the data.
Besides that, we also need to understand more about Parkinson’s disease since it is not
familiar to most of the people but it’s similar to ALS disease. Last but not least, we also hope to
create awareness among peoples in Malaysia towards Parkinson’s diseasethrough our survey.
5. Parkinson’s Disease Survey Form
This is a survey done by Mathematics students of Foundation in Natural & Built
Environment (FNBE)April intake Semester Two to study more about Parkinson’s Disease.
GENDER : □ FEMALE □ MALE
1. Age
o 21-25
o 26-30
2. Have you ever heard about Parkinson’s Disease before?
o Yes
o No
3. Men are more likely to develop Parkinson’s Disease than women.
o Yes
o No
4. People usually develop the disease around age 50 or older.
o Yes
o No
5. Parkinson’s Disease can be cured.
o Yes
o No
6. Surgery can cure Parkinson’s Disease.
o Yes
o No
7. Parkinson’s Disease signs and symptoms may include:
o Tremor
o Slowed Movement
o Rigid Muscles
o Impaired posture and balance
o Loss of automatic movements
o Speech and writing changes
o Others : _______________
6. 8. Everyone with Parkinson’s Disease has different symptoms.
o Yes
o No
9. Medications can reduce the reduce the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.
o Yes
o No
10.Genetics is the main causes of Parkinson’s Disease.
o Yes
o No
11. Environmental factors are the major factor of Parkinson’s Disease.
o Yes
o No
12. Caffeine can reduce the risk of having Parkinson’s Disease.
o Yes
o No
13. Do you think good lifestyle can lower the risk of having Parkinson’s Disease?
o Yes
o No
14.There are many types of Parkinson’s Disease.
o Yes
o No
15.Do you think Parkinson’s Disease will caused death?
o Yes
o No
THANK YOU
7. STATISTIC ANALYSIS
1) Age
Age 21-25 26-30
Frequency 100 100
The gender involved in this survey is only female which is divided into two range which are 21
to 25 years old and 26 to 30 years old. The percentage of both rangeare 50%.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
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60%
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100%
Age
26-30
21-25
8. 2) Have you ever heard about Parkinson’s Disease before?
Age Respond Frequency
21-25 Yes 80
No 20
26-30 Yes 96
No 4
The percentage of female in the rangeof 26-30 years old is higher than the female in the range
of 21-25 years old. This shows thatfemale from26 to 30 years old are exposed more to
Parkinson’s Disease.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
no
yes
9. 3) Men are more likely to develop Parkinson’s Disease than women.
Age Respond Frequency
21-25 Yes 60
No 40
26-30 Yes 60
No 40
The percentage of both range of age that men havehigher risk of having Parkinson’s Disease
than women is the same which is 60%.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
no
yes
10. 4) People usually develop the disease around age 50 or older.
Age Respond Frequency
21-25 Yes 78
No 22
26-30 Yes 49
No 41
The percentage of 21-25 years old female for agreeing that elderly people are at risk of
developing the disease is more than the percentage of 26-30 years old female.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
no
yes
11. 5) Parkinson’s diseasecan be cured.
Age Respond Frequency
21-25 Yes 34
No 66
26-30 Yes 53
No 47
The percentage of female from26 to 30 years old is morethan 21-25 years old which is 53%
and 34% shows thatfemale of 26-30 years old feels that Parkinson’s Diseasecan be cured.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
no
yes
12. 6) Surgery can cure Parkinson’s Disease.
Age Respond Frequency
21-25 Yes 26
No 74
26-30 Yes 41
No 59
Female of 21-25 years old disagreethat Parkinson’s Diseasecan be cured by surgery. This can
be shown by the percentage of the respond for yes is more than 26-30 years old.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
no
yes
13. 7) Parkinson’s Diseasesigns and symptoms may include:
Age Signs and symptoms Frequency
21-25 Tremor 50
Slowed movement 48
Rigid muscles 54
Impaired posture and balance 55
Loss of automatic movements 63
Speech and writing changes 5
26-30 Tremor 54
Slowed movement 72
Rigid muscles 54
Impaired posture and balance 57
Loss of automatic movements 59
Speech and writing changes 54
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
speech and writing changes
loss of automatic movements
impaired posture and balance
rigid muscles
slowed movement
tremor
14. 8) Everyonewith Parkinson’s Diseasehavedifferentsymptoms.
Age Respond Frequency
21-25 Yes 51
No 49
26-30 Yes 81
No 19
Female of age from26-30 years old understands moreaboutParkinson’s Disease. So, the
percentage of 26-30 years old female feels that Parkinson’s Diseasehas differentsymptoms is
more than 21-25 years old female.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
no
yes
15. 9) Medications can reduce the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.
Age Respond Frequency
21-25 Yes 82
No 18
26-30 Yes 78
No 22
Majority of the percentage of both range thinks that medication can reduce the symptoms of
Parkinson’s Diseaseshows thatfemale understand aboutthis disease.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
no
yes
16. 10) Genetics is the main causeof Parkinson’s Disease.
Age Respond Frequency
21-25 Yes 55
No 44
26-30 Yes 67
No 33
The percentage of disagreeing genetics is the main cause of the disease in the rangeof 21-25
years old is more than 26-30 years old represents that21-25 years old female understand
more about the factor of Parkinson’s Disease.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
no
yes
17. 11) Environmental factors arethe major factor of Parkinson’s Disease.
Age Respond Frequency
21-25 Yes 44
No 56
26-30 Yes 79
No 21
Percentage of female in the range of 21-25 years old is 44% is lower than the
percentage of female in the range of 26-30 years old which is 79%. Femaleof 26-30
years old feels that environmental factors brings big effect to the disease.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
no
yes
18. 12) Caffeine can reduce the risk of having Parkinson’s Disease.
Age Respond Frequency
21-25 Yes 30
No 70
26-30 Yes 78
No 22
Female of 26-30 years old have higher percentage of responding yes than female of 21-
25 years old. This shows that the exposure of 26-30 years old female to Parkinson’s
diseaseis higher.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
no
yes
19. 13) Do you think good lifestyle can lower the risk of having Parkinson’sDisease?
Age Respond Frequency
21-25 Yes 70
No 30
26-30 Yes 87
No 13
Percentage of 21-25 years old female is 70% while percentage of 26-30 years old female
is 87%.Both rangeof age also have higher percentage of agreeing healthy lifestyle can
lower down the disease.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
no
yes
20. 14) There are many types of Parkinson’s Disease.
Age Respond Frequency
21-25 Yes 50
No 50
26-30 Yes 77
No 23
26-30 years old female’s respond for yes have more percentage compared to 21-25 years old
female. This proves that female from26 to 30 years old understand more about this disease.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
no
yes
21. 15) Do you think Parkinson’s Diseasewillcause death?
Age Respond Frequency
21-25 Yes 52
No 48
26-30 Yes 58
No 42
Both range of age have almostthe same percentage for agreeing that this disease will cause
death shows that female thinks that Parkinson’s Disease
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
21-25 26-30
no
yes
22. CONCLUSION
As in conclusion, the major purpose is to find out the understanding
level of females in Malaysia on Parkinson’s disease and create awareness
toward it. Through this survey we know that much of the young
teenagers haveno knowledge on Parkinson’s disease.
When we first choose Parkinson’s disease as our discuss topic, we
have no understanding on it. After many research when we creating our
questionnaire, we started to gain knowledge on Parkinson’s disease. We
found out that it’s similar to ALS but less awareness to people.
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disorder of the nervous system that
affects your movement of all your body part. Parkinson’s disease cannot
be cure but can be reduce or slow down the symptoms if found early.
Throughout this survey we learned a lot of things such as teamwork,
data collecting and analysis, tabulating data and convert data into chart
and tables, apply mathematical principles in organizing data and also
transform datainto infographic.
Besides that, we also hope that more people will be more aware of
Parkinson’s disease and practice healthy life style to reduce the risk of
getting Parkinson’s disease.
