The Effect of Compensation Strategies on Gait Impairment in Parkinson's Disease

Официальное название

Unravelling the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Compensation Strategies for Gait Impairments in Parkinson's Disease: a Transnational, Multimodal Approach

Обзор

Gait disturbances are disabling and common in Parkinson's disease (PD). Patients use many different, and typically self-developed, strategies to compensate for their walking abnormalities. There is a wide variety of compensatory strategies, of which external and internal cueing are the most commonly known. External cueing refers to externally produced predictive stimuli such as a metronome, whereas internal cueing refers to a movement reference generated internally, such as counting while walking. The efficacy of external and internal cueing varies dramatically across patients, and some patients can even be identified as 'non-responders' to a particular cue. Consequently, a one-size-fits-all approach simply does not suffice, which increases the need for better understanding of the key mechanisms behind these compensation strategies. Furthermore, it is still unknown how the efficacy of compensation strategies changes longitudinally. The goal of the UNITE-PD project is to address these questions. The investigators aim to investigate whether the efficacy of internal and external cueing changes over time, and whether it is differentially affected in responders and non-responders. In order to work towards a more personalized treatment for patients with PD, the investigators also aim to identify potential patient characteristics that can mediate the actual use of compensation strategies in daily life. The multicenter UNITE-PD project is divided in a joint package and individual site-specific packages. All partners will investigate the neural working mechanisms of compensation strategies in PD from different angles in the site-specific packages. The joint package focusses on the long-term effect of the compensation strategies and the potential patient characteristics that can influence the efficacy of the compensation strategies. In this project, the investigators will define responders and non-responders to external and/or internal cueing. With the use of extensive clinimetrics, the aim is to identify patient characteristics that might influence the efficacy. With the use of a custom made cueing app (which will be applied during a follow up period of six months), the long-term effect of cueing in the responders can be investigated. Together, all centers aim to include a total of 384 participants (Netherlands N = 104, Belgium N =90, Israel N = 75, Italy N = 115). Importantly, this sample size is not based on the joint workpackage described here, but on the numbers needed for the individual site-specific work packages.

Вмешательства

• Устройство Cueing app
  All participants that are included come to the movement lab for the baseline measurement. The baseline measurement consists out of extensive clinimetrics (for example MDS-UPDRS) to identify patient characteristics. With the use of an objective gait assessment, the effectiveness of both internal and external cueing is determined. This will divide the participants in three groups; responders, non-responders and in between. Participants who clearly respond to either internal or external cueing (det

Первичные конечные точки

• Gait Variability [Срок оценки: Six months]

Вторичные конечные точки (1)

• Gait speed [Срок оценки: Six months]

Критерии участия

Критерии включения

• Men and women of age > 18 years with idiopathic Parkinson's disease;
• Written informed consent.

Критерии исключения

• Daily usage of compensation strategies for the past month;
• Presence of deep brain stimulation (DBS);
• Presence of severe co-morbidity limiting ambulation (e.g. stroke, orthopaedic problems);
• Inability to walk unaided (with the exception of a customary cane);
• Inability to walk for > 3 minutes consecutively;
• Severe auditory impairments, hampering perception of auditory cues;
• Severe cognitive impairment (MMSE < 21)

Критерии приведены из реестра в оригинале (на английском). Окончательную оценку соответствия проводит исследовательский центр.

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Дизайн исследования

Распределение

Нерандомизированное

Модель

Параллельные группы

Маскирование

Открытое

Основная цель

Фундаментальное исследование

Центры проведения

Нидерланды · 1 центр

• Radboudumc — Nijmegen

Идентификаторы

NCT: NCT06142448 · 113692

Первоисточники (государственные реестры)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH, США)

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