Parkinson's disease
Conditions
Interventions
The intervention has four key elements:
- Personal Activity Coach (the ParkFit-therapist) for counseling and motivating
the patient
- Health Contract between coach and patient which leads to a Person
Sponsors
Universitair Medisch Centrum Sint Radboud
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - Idiopathic Parkinson's disease - Hoehn and Yahr stage I-IV - Age between 40 and 75 years old - Physically inactive according to the Dutch Norm of Healthy Daily Exercise
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Wheel chair bounded - Severe respons fluctuations - Severe co-morbidity - Severe cognitive decline, defined as Mini Mental State Examination > 24
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Primary Outcome: Level of Physical Activity - Level of physical activity: LASA Physical Activity Questionnaire (LAPAQ) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secundary outcomes: - Functional Fitness: 6 minute walk test - Quality of Life (Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Questionnaire (PDQ39)) - walkingtime: Patient activity monitor Tertiary outcomes: - Functioning and mobility (Timed up and Go test (TUG) & Activities of Daily Living Scale (ALDS)) - Disease progression (Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS), motor part) - Depression and mood (Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) & Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)) - Constipation (Patient Assessment of Constipation Symptoms (PAC-SYM)) - Sleep disturbances (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) - Cognitive changes (Mizes Anorectic Cognition questionnaire (MAC)) - Number of falls (Computerized phonecall-system) - Fatigue: Checklist Individual Strength (CIS) | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed