NCT04115683

Dual Task Training in Parkinson's Disease

Effect of Dual Task Training on Balance, Gait, Cognition and Neurotrophic Factors in Parkinson's Disease

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Gazi University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of study is to analyze the effects of dual task training on balance, gait, cognition and neurotrophic factors in Parkinson's disease.

Detailed description

20 patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease will be randomly assigned to either intervention or control group. And 10 healty subjects will be included to study in order to determine the reference values.The intervention group will be recieved cognitive and motor dual task training consisting of balance and walking activities 3 days a week for 8 weeks. Control group will be recieved same balance and walking activities in single task condition 3 days a week for 8 weeks. In order to evaluate the effects of the training, evaluations will be performed before and after the training period.

Conditions

• Parkinson Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dual Task Training	45 minutes of dual task training consisting of motor activities (walking, balance... etc.) with combination of cognitive activities (spelling words, image description, nomination, word generation, counting... etc.) at sime time.
OTHER	Single Task Training	45 minutes of single task training consisting of same motor activities (walking, balance... etc.)

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-16
• Primary completion: 2021-03-30
• Completion: 2021-06-30
• First posted: 2019-10-04
• Last updated: 2019-11-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)