Peer Partners to Improve Physical Activity in Older Latino and Latina Adults With Parkinson's Disease.

UConn Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parkinson Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Socially supported physical activity

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06170866

P30AG067988 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

23-117S-2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this interventional study is to culturally adapt and determine feasibility of the peer partner training program and the peer-supported mobile health physical activity intervention in older Latin/Hispanic people with Parkinson's disease.

The main question[s] it aims to answer are:

• What is the feasibility of the peer partner training program?
• What is the feasibility of the peer-supported mobile health physical activity intervention?
• What are the effects of the peer-supported mobile health physical activity intervention on physical activity, motivation, depression, apathy and self-efficacy?

Participants will be asked to:

• Wear a research-grade activity monitor, Actigraph GT9X device for 10 days at the beginning and end of the study.
• Watch 11 educational videos about Parkinson´s disease and exercise and attend two virtual educational sessions.
• Connect with another person with Parkinson´s disease one time a week on a virtual meeting platform for 8 weeks.
• Use Fitbit activity monitors and connect with other participants through the Fitbit application for 8 weeks.
• Attend a weekly online exercise class for 8 weeks with other people with Parkinon´s disease.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Idiopathic Parkinson disease,

• Able to walk without the assistance of another person for 10 minutes

  -≥ 29 on Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS)

• To have a close friend/family member over the age of 18 that would support the participant during the intervention

  -≥ 50 years of age

• Hispanic

• To be willing to use an activity monitor and use a Fitbit and Fitbit application

• To be on a stable course of PD medications without any plans for change over the next 3 months

• To be able to speak, read and write in Spanish or English

Exclusion criteria

• Unstable cardiopulmonary, orthopedic, psychological or metabolic condition
• Atypical Parkinsonism Disorders
• A fall in the last 6 months (that was unrelated to an external force)
• Currently engaging in 150 minutes of mod-vigorous physical activity/week

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

Social support for physical activity

Experimental group

Description:

Socially supported (peer, family and group) physical activity group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Socially supported physical activity