The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Care Partners of People with Parkinson's Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the caregiving routine for care partners of people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) changed substantially.

Objectives

To understand the nature and severity of burden in care partners of PwPD during the ongoing pandemic. We also sought to describe care partners' perceived change in burden and factors associated with increased burden.

Methods

Cross-sectional online questionnaire-based study among care partners of PwPD, registered in the Fox Insight study. The questionnaire consisted of the Modified Caregiver Strain Index, whether an aspect of strain had changed over the course of the pandemic and additional pandemic-specific infection and lifestyle-related items.

Results

Two hundred seventy-three

SUBMITTER: Speelberg DHB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10105120 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature