Telemedicine Program in Parkinson's Disease (TELEPARK)

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

30 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-06-30

Study Completion Date

2017-07-31

Brief Summary

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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease due to the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, leading to motor symptoms of tremor, rigidity, and bradykinesia, as well as an array of non-motor symptoms that affect cognition, sleep, behaviour, and the autonomic nervous system.

Lifelong rehabilitation measures, along with medication treatment, are the major components of patient management. Physical exercises positively affect patients' quality of life (QOL) and their functional capacities. Poor adherence to rehabilitation, limited patient education, and access to specialized care can be barriers to treatment. A number of papers in fact report that telemedicine is an acceptable means of care delivery reduces travel burdens and may improve patient outcomes. However, most of these studies were not randomized or controlled and did not include nursing home patients, who may benefit the most from specialty care.

Moreover, there is no evidence supporting the use of telerehabilitation for physical assessments of people with PD. For this reason investigators hypothesize that a home telerehabilitation system guiding patients in following their exercise program combined with a computerized decision-support tool monitoring patient performance, would be feasible for and acceptable to patients with PD and would improve functional status.

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Detailed Description

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Aim of the study:

1. Demonstrate the feasibility of at home telesurveillance and rehabilitation program
2. Demonstrate the effectiveness of the program in improving quality of life and functional aspects in patients affected by Parkinson's disease

30 patients affected by Parkinson's disease (PD), will be consecutively screened. The method of sequence generation relied on a computerized random number generator. The person who allocated patients to the two groups was not involved either in treatment or in evaluation of the patients.

The study was submitted for approval of the Central Ethics Review Board. Participants will be randomly assigned to two different groups of training using a random number table to receive either telemedicine care (PTE) or their usual care (PUC).

All the patients will receive in our Institute a comprehensive baseline evaluation conducted by both the neurologist and the physical therapist specialized in the treatment of PD.

During the baseline evaluation (T0), both PTE and PUC will perform two supervised familiarization sessions using the same training protocol to be used once at home.

Caregivers are an essential part in the PD patients' home management and rehabilitation and they therefore will be involved in all educational stages.

Each patient of both groups will receive two types of physical intervention:

1. A traditional custom-tailored rehabilitative exercise program; he will be trained by the therapist on how to perform the exercises. These exercises will include functional strengthening, stretching, postural changes and balance activities
2. An aerobic training All patients will be asked to perform these exercises for 60 minutes 3 days/week for three months.

The training phase will last 20 minutes during the first month and 30 minutes over the second and third month; Training intensity could be progressively increased over the three months of intervention, Aerobic training familiarization sessions will be performed on the same ergometer they will receive for home-based training.

Conditions

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Parkinson's Disease

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Participants Telemedicine Care (PTE)

A. Comprehensive evaluation at baseline (T0) and at the end of the study (T1).

B. Physical Intervention at home for 60 minutes 3 days/week for three months

C. Home-Based telemedicine program:

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Comprehensive evaluation

Intervention Type OTHER

At baseline (T0) and after 3-months (T1) all patients will be evaluated with Scales and questionnaire.

Physical Intervention at home

Intervention Type OTHER

A traditional custom-tailored rehabilitative exercise program. The exercises will include functional strengthening, stretching, postural changes and balance activities; - An aerobic training on a cycle ergometer 3 days /week for three months.

Home-Based telemedicine program

Intervention Type OTHER

1. A nurse-tutor will follow patients through structured telephone appointments, collecting information about disease status and symptoms, offering advice regarding diet, lifestyle and medications and suggesting changes in therapy, according with the neurologist. The patient's clinical data and any suggestions made will be filled in a personal health electronic record.
2. A physiotherapist-tutor will supervise the patient's home-based individualized rehabilitation program, through scheduled videoconferences.

Participants Usual Care (PUC)

A. Comprehensive evaluation at baseline (T0) and at the end of the study (T1).

B. Physical Intervention at home for 60 minutes 3 days/week for three months

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Comprehensive evaluation

Intervention Type OTHER

At baseline (T0) and after 3-months (T1) all patients will be evaluated with Scales and questionnaire.

Physical Intervention at home

Intervention Type OTHER

A traditional custom-tailored rehabilitative exercise program. The exercises will include functional strengthening, stretching, postural changes and balance activities; - An aerobic training on a cycle ergometer 3 days /week for three months.

Interventions

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Comprehensive evaluation

At baseline (T0) and after 3-months (T1) all patients will be evaluated with Scales and questionnaire.

Intervention Type OTHER

Physical Intervention at home

A traditional custom-tailored rehabilitative exercise program. The exercises will include functional strengthening, stretching, postural changes and balance activities; - An aerobic training on a cycle ergometer 3 days /week for three months.

Intervention Type OTHER

Home-Based telemedicine program

1. A nurse-tutor will follow patients through structured telephone appointments, collecting information about disease status and symptoms, offering advice regarding diet, lifestyle and medications and suggesting changes in therapy, according with the neurologist. The patient's clinical data and any suggestions made will be filled in a personal health electronic record.
2. A physiotherapist-tutor will supervise the patient's home-based individualized rehabilitation program, through scheduled videoconferences.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 30 patients affected by Parkinson's disease (PD), according to the United Kingdom Parkinson's Disease Society Brain Bank Criteria (Hughes et al.,1992), will be consecutively screened. Participants should have a Hoehn \& Yahr stage between 1,5 and 3. All subjects will be on stabilized treatment with L-dopa or dopamine agonists.

All participants will provide written informed consent to the study.

Exclusion Criteria

* inability to participate in the exercise programs, other neurological conditions in addition to PD, psychiatric complications or personality disorders, musculoskeletal or cardiopulmonary conditions affecting mobility, and non-consent to participate in the study A cognitive impairment scores measured with Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) ≤ 26/30.

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

80 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No