An observational study in Parkinson Disease (PD) and Self-Care Ability, sponsored by Giovanni Muttillo. Not yet recruiting. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-05-01.
Sponsored by Giovanni Muttillo · Observational
This descriptive observational study will involve dyads of Parkinson Disease patients and their caregivers. Participants will be recruited from the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Centre of ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO. Validated questionnaires, such as the WHOQOL-Bref, the Self-care of Chronic Illness Inventory version 2, and the Caregiver Self-efficacy in Contributing to Self-care Scale, will be administered. The study will also include semi-structured interviews to gather qualitative data on the patients' and caregivers' perceptions of self-care. A non-probabilistic convenience sampling method will be used, with the inclusion of both patients at any disease stage and their primary caregivers. The sample size will range 311 dyads with 5% margin of error.
The primary objective of this study is to describe the proportion of self-care maintenance in the population with Parkinson's Disease and their respective caregivers. Gaining an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon in its experiential and perceptual components, as well as the meanings attributed to it, is essential for developing and validating a new tool capable of assessing and measuring self-care in Parkinson's Disease. The secondary objectives are (a) to describe the proportions of self-care monitoring and management in the population with Parkinson's Disease and their respective caregivers; (b) to explore the meaning attributed by patients with Parkinson's Disease to self-care in its three dimensions: self-care maintenance, monitoring, and management; (c) to describe the attitudes and self-care behaviours adopted by patients with Parkinson's Disease across different disease stages; (d) to explore the meaning attributed by caregivers of patients with Parkinson's Disease to self-care in its three dimensions: self-care maintenance, monitoring, and management; (e) to describe the attitudes and self-care behaviours adopted by caregivers of patients with Parkinson's Disease across different disease stages; (f) to identify the dimensions of self-care and the constructs that should be represented within the items of the new instrument, the Parkinson's Disease Self-care Questionnaire (PDSC-Q).
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This study's planned enrollment of 311 is above the median of 97 across 1,081 observational studies indexed under Parkinson Disease.
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Caregivers and patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease
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Exclusion Criteria:
Patient
Caregiver
Self-care
Self Care of Chronic Illness Inventory versione 2
Time frame: Baseline
Self-care caregiver
Caregiver Self-efficacy in Contributing to self-care scale (CSE-CSC)
Time frame: Baseline
Perception of quality of life
WHOQOL-BREF
Time frame: Baseline
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Plan to share: No — SHARING WITH OTHER RESEARCHERS IS NOT NECESSARY
Start is estimated for May 2025; primary completion for May 2026, 12 months later.
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