Observational Study for Non-motor Symptoms and Treatment in Parkinson's Disease Patients (J-FIRST)

Kyowa Kirin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parkinson Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT02073981

J-FIRST

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is implemented to identify factors having an impact on improvement or exacerbation of non-motor symptoms, to provide information contributing to development of medical care in this field and improvement of patients' QOL, and to clarify the association between the use of istradefylline and non-motor symptoms or QOL.

Enrollment: 1,021 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who have wearing off under treatment with levodopa-containing drugs administered at least three times daily
• Patients who have at least one non-motor symptom as a complication
• Patients at least 20 years of age at the time of consent
• Patients who have given written consent
• Patients who are receiving outpatient care

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with dementia or a score of 23 or less on the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
• Patients, in the opinion of the investigator or subinvestigator, having conditions impairing the proper assessment of the MDS-UPDRS or PDQ-8 (e.g., patients who are receiving treatment for malignant tumor)

Trial design

1,021 participants in 1 patient group

Parkinson Disease