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Mister Parkinson: Educational Therapy in Parkinson's Disease (PD)

NCT04378127 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2024-04-10

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Summary

Parkinson's disease is multidimensional disorders characterized by motor and non-motor symptoms such as behavioral and psychological symptoms, autonomic disturbances and other non-motor symptoms. These can contribute to the burden of the disease on patients and their caregivers, and often remain unrecognized and untreated.

This was a single-blind,multicentric, prospective, randomized study comparing two arms: an intervention group undergoing a structured educational program associated to standard care and a control group who solely continued with traditional medical care.

Conditions

  • Parkinson Disease

Interventions

OTHER

Educational program

The educational program consisted of six thematic meetings of 3 hours each, which a 15-minute interval every hour. Each meeting had a key topic and was divided in a teaching session and in a practical session with individual training of both, subject and caregiver. Every lecture was held by a movement disorders specialist with particular expertise in each field of discussion and the content of each lessons (slides, flyers, questionnaires) was adapted to fit the audience.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • IRCCS San Raffaele Roma

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • fabrizio stocchi, md phd · IRCCS San Raffaele

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-05-10
Primary Completion
2018-12-10
Completion
2018-12-10

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