Evaluating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a combined person-centred intervention of Advance Care Planning (ACP) and care coordination for people with Parkinson’s disease and their family caregiver(s)
- Conditions
- Parkinson’s disease and Parkinsonisms
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON26859
- Lead Sponsor
- Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 176
Inclusion Criteria
• Capable to participate;
• Able to provide informed consent;
• Meeting the MDS clinical diagnostic criteria for PD, including Parkinsonisms (Postuma et al., 2015);
• H&Y = 3;
• Progressive deterioration in physical and/or cognitive function despite optimal therapy, according to the primary physician; and
• Availability of a family caregiver or informal caregiver.
Exclusion Criteria
• Inability to communicate independently, with or without supportive communication tools.
• Presence of additional chronic medical illnesses which may require palliative services (e.g. metastatic cancer).
• Already receiving palliative care or hospice services.
• Already participating in a clinical study for palliative care.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method % patients with documented ACP arrangements
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - patient‘s symptom burden<br>- FC’s burden<br>- patients and their FC experienced quality of life<br>- care coordination<br>- quality of (palliative) care<br>- cost effectiveness of the intervention