Mild Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson's Disease
Conditions
Brief summary
Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) will be trained using a cognitive behavioral group-training-program to reduce stress and augment quality of life. An unspecific group with the same amount and frequency of meetings is used as a control group. For the evaluation of the training effects, scales to assess quality of life, analyses of psychopathological variations as well as neurocognitive tests will be used. Protocol amendment in 1-2017: addition of FU year 3 and year 5.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALPsycho-social CBT based training
Number of Sessions: 9x Content: cognitive behavioral group-training-program to reduce stress and augment quality of life.
BEHAVIORALUnspecific group training
Number of sessions: 9x Content: Music or Art Therapy Nutrition Education around Food Functional Movement Physical Activity Group discussion
Sponsors
Parkinson Schweiz
Bangerter-Rhyner Foundation
AbbVie
University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
45 Years to 95 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease according to United Kingdom Parkinson's Disease Brain Bank Criteria, being either cognitively normal, suffering from Mild Cognitive Impairment or having mild dementia. Patients must be able to give their written informed consent.
Exclusion criteria
* Moderate or severe dementia (DMS-IV, Mini Mental Status (MMS) \<24), other neurological or psychiatric diseases of the brain not related to PD, secondary parkinsonism, physical impairment hindering the adequate execution of the training, insufficient knowledge of German or pregnancy are
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life-Direct Weighting (SeiQol-DW) | Before and after 9 weeks of training, After 6-month |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Scale for the assessment of management of daily living (Alltagsbewältigungsskala: A-B-S) | Before and after 9 weeks training, after 6 month |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Burden questionnaire for Patients with Parkinson's Disease (Belastungsfragebogen) | Before and after 9 weeks of training, after 6 month | Questionnaire for measuring psychosocial problems, no official english translation available. |
Countries
Switzerland
Outcome results
None listed