Therapeutic education for empowerment and engagement in patients with Parkinson's disease: A non-pharmacological, interventional, multicentric, randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 1997 the European Parkinson's Disease Associations launched the Charter for People with Parkinson's disease that stated the right of patients to be informed and trained on the disease, its course, and treatments available. To date, few data analyzed the effectiveness of education program on motor and non-motor symptoms of PD.

Objective

The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of an education program as it was a pharmacological treatment, thus choosing as the primary endpoint the change in daily OFF hours, the most widely used outcome in pharmaceutical clinical trials on PD patients with motor fluctuations. Secondary outcomes were change in motor and non-motor symptoms, quality of life and social functioning. The long-term efficacy of the education the

SUBMITTER: De Pandis MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10151770 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature