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DBS Virtual Learning Experience

NCT06436313 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2025-09-22

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Summary

The success of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is more correlated to fulfillment of patients' expectations, than merely improvement of motor status1. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to inform the DBS candidates as good as possible to set realistic expectations. Currently, the patient - most of the time accompanied by a family member - is informed about the surgery and its benefits and risks during the outpatient consultation of the neurologist, and later on during the consultation of the neurosurgeon. Written information is provided in the form of a booklet that the patients take home.

Due to the large amount of information, not all of it can be captured by the patient. Therefore, we would like to investigate whether an additional online immersive educational session on DBS would better educate the patient. The online session is a 1-hour video call with a small group of DBS candidates and their caregivers, lead by DBS experts, where testimonials of other patients are shown, together with multiple infographics. Two weeks later their will be a second online session summarizing the information and providing the opportunity for Q\&A.

Conditions

  • Parkinson Disease

Interventions

OTHER

Educational Sessions

Two online educational sessions will be organized before DBS surgery. These will be scheduled between consultation with the neurologist and the consultation with the neurosurgeon. Each virtual session will last about 1 hour. Patients can login from home, together with their caregivers. The virtual sessions will be held on MS Teams virtual platform. One of the sessions will include a DBS patient where patients will have the opportunity to ask peer-to-peer questions. The session includes testimonials from patient before and after their surgery. The second session (about two weeks later) is a summary presentation, a quiz and time for Q\&A. During one of the sessions (first or second), a DBS patient (who has been implanted) can be invited to participate togive the attendees the opportunity to ask peer-to-peer questions. The quiz contains questions to assess the patients' knowledge of DBS.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Toronto

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-09-01
Primary Completion
2025-12-30
Completion
2026-02-01

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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