Self-management interventions for patients with Parkinson's disease: Qualitative needs assessment of patients and relatives

• Conditions: G20; Parkinson disease

• Registration Number: DRKS00030686
• Lead Sponsor: Philipps Universität Marburg

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-02-16
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 72

Inclusion Criteria

1) Patients (m/f/d) with a clinical diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's syndrome (iPS) according to the currently valid international criteria (Postuma et al. 2015).
- Severity Hoehn & Yahr stage I-IV
- No cognitive impairment in the sense of dementia or similar.
- Age: 18 years and older
- Sufficient knowledge of German
- Ability and willingness to give consent
- Able to remember information, use it to make a decision and communicate decisions through speech

2) Relatives (m/f/d) of patients with IPS
- Interested persons whose relatives are suffering from iPS
- Carers as well as non-caring relatives
- Age: 18 years and older
- Good or sufficiently corrected vision and hearing ability
- Sufficient knowledge of German

Exclusion Criteria

1) Patients with IPS
- and with other neurological diseases affecting cognition (e.g., atypical courses of Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, brain tumors, etc.).
- dementia
- Refusal or inability to participate in the study
- Other comprehension and communication difficulties affecting point 6 of the inclusion criteria (e.g. language problems)

2) Relatives of patients with IPS.
- Restrictions of vision, hearing and speech that are not sufficiently corrected
- Insufficient knowledge of German

Study & Design

• Study Type: observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Qualitative research. The aim of the study is a needs assessment of (digital) self-management interventions for patients with Parkinson's disease.