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Peer Partners to Improve Physical Activity in Older Latino and Latina Adults With Parkinson's Disease.

NCT06170866 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2025-11-26

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Summary

The goal of this interventional study is to culturally adapt and determine feasibility of the peer partner training program and the peer-supported mobile health physical activity intervention in older Latin/Hispanic people with Parkinson's disease.

The main question\[s\] it aims to answer are:

* What is the feasibility of the peer partner training program?
* What is the feasibility of the peer-supported mobile health physical activity intervention?
* What are the effects of the peer-supported mobile health physical activity intervention on physical activity, motivation, depression, apathy and self-efficacy?

Participants will be asked to:

* Wear a research-grade activity monitor, Actigraph GT9X device for 10 days at the beginning and end of the study.
* Watch 11 educational videos about Parkinson´s disease and exercise and attend two virtual educational sessions.
* Connect with another person with Parkinson´s disease one time a week on a virtual meeting platform for 8 weeks.
* Use Fitbit activity monitors and connect with other participants through the Fitbit application for 8 weeks.
* Attend a weekly online exercise class for 8 weeks with other people with Parkinon´s disease.

Conditions

  • Parkinson Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Socially supported physical activity

Use of a culturally and linguistically tailored intervention that uses mobile health technology plus social support to increase engagement in physical activity in the management of Parkinson´s disease.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • UConn Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Cristina Colón-Semenza, PhD · University of Connecticut

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-06-01
Primary Completion
2024-07-01
Completion
2024-08-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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