Internet-CBT for Parkinsons Disease (Patrik)

Karolinska Institute

Status

Completed

Conditions

Parkinson Disease

Treatments

Other: SMT

Behavioral: Internet-based CBT

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02627885

2015/1938-31/4

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to investigate if an Internet-based psychological treatment based on principles from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can increase function and quality of life for patients with Parkinson disease.

Full description

The Internet-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (ICBT) will be given as an adjunct to the Standard Medical Treatment. ICBT will be compared to Standard Medical Treatment alone (SMT).

A secondary aim is make a preliminary evaluation of the ICBT-program with less and less active therapist support. It is hypothesized that both active treatments will be superior to SMT in improving quality of life and functioning and that ICBT with full therapist support will be superior to ICBT with lower level of therapist support.

Enrollment

77 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Diagnosed Parkinson disease
WSAS score of over 17
Access to a internet connected device and a mobile phone capable of receiving SMS

Exclusion criteria

Substance or alcohol abuse
Psychotic Disorder or Bipolar disorder
Other psychiatric disorder that requires immediate attention or hinders the offered ICBT treatment
Practical obstacles such as difficulties using the technology required to participate in the study, not having the time to actively wok with the treatment, or having symptoms from Parkinson to severe to be able to actively participate in the study
High suicide risk, defined as:
5 or 6 points on the question about Suicidal thoughts on the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Scale (MADRS)
A standardized clinical interview on suicidal thoughts if the score on the above question is 4