Effect of Remote Cognitive Intervention in Patients With Parkinson's Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic (TELEPARK)

Scientific Institute for Research Hospitalization and Healthcare (IRCCS)

Status: Completed

Conditions: COVID-19; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Parkinson Disease

Treatments: Other: Cognitive digital treatment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05476302

INRCA_004_2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

Retrospective study to evaluate the effect of a remote cognitive-rehabilitative intervention during the Covid outbreak in subjects with Parkinson's disease.

Full description

Mild cognitive impairment is frequent among people with Parkinson's disease. Cognitive training seems effective on cognitive status and for mitigating anxiety and depression. With COVID-19 outbreak, such therapeutic interventions were delivered online. This retrospective study was aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of an online cognitive treatment, carried out in COVID times and based on the Parkinson's-Adapted Cognitive Stimulation Therapy, on cognitive domains and mood in 18 older people with Parkinson's disease.

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parkinson disease: Hoehn & Yahr's scale: 1-3 based on the UK PD Society Brain Bank
• mild cognitive impairment
• no cognitive training between March and October 2020
• presence of a family caregiver to access and use the online platform

Exclusion criteria

• other neurological diseases
• deep brain stimulation
• schizophrenia
• depression
• sensory deprivations that could interfere with the treatment

Trial design

18 participants in 1 patient group

Cognitive digital treatment

Description:

Cognitive digital treatment in patients with Parkinson's disease

Treatment:

Other: Cognitive digital treatment