NCT03275649

Help-seeking for Health Problems in People With Parkinson's

Development of an Intervention to Increase Help-seeking for Non-motor Symptoms in People With Parkinson's

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 35 (actual)
• Sponsor: City, University of London · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Non-motor symptoms (NMS) are common in Parkinson's disease (PD) and cause significant distress and decreased quality of life. A high rate of non-declaration of NMS by patients means that many NMS remain unrecognized and untreated, even in specialist clinical services. In phase one of this research qualitative interviews (phase 1) were guided by the Theoretical Domains Framework and used to identify the barriers for help-seeking. A quantitative questionnaire survey (phase 2) examined the significance of these barriers to help seeking. The present study aims to develop (phase 3) and test the feasibility (phase 4) of a targeted behavioural intervention of barriers which were identified in phases 1 and 2 which prevent help-seeking for NMS in patients with PD. As with phases 1 and 2, the feasibility trial will include people with unreported burdensome NMS, who have not reported them to their PD consultant or nurse. The intervention has been co-designed by people affected by Parkinson's and targets the barriers identified in the previous phases of the research. In phase three of the research, 'think-aloud' interviews will be used to further develop the intervention so that it is acceptable and easy to use. In the final phase, a feasibility trial will be conducted to examine efficacy of the intervention for increasing help-seeking for undeclared NMS. The study has implications for using a theoretically driven behavioural intervention to promote help-seeking for NMS and ultimately increase receipt of clinical care for NMS among patients with PD.

Conditions

• Parkinson Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Help-seeking for non-motor symptoms	Brief, self-paced, online individually tailored intervention using LifeGuide software. Includes information, videos and exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-07-21
• Primary completion: 2018-01-01
• Completion: 2018-01-01
• First posted: 2017-09-07
• Last updated: 2018-01-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom