NCT04695353

Study of Feasibility and Efficacy of Telecommunication Platforms as an Adjunctive Clinical Tool for a Parkinson's Disease Clinic

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Universitario de Burgos · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Telecommunication Platforms are new technology founded to build better short messages service alternative. Their use have increasingly drawn a wider range of interest as a text communication and video chat system between health care professionals and patients and health care professionals themselves. However, high-quality and adequately evaluated research, especially in the field of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson´s disease, is needed to establish whether patients with these specific neurological problems can be effectively managed with these technological tools in low, middle, and high-income countries

Detailed description

Telecommunication Platforms are new technology founded to build a better short message service alternative. Their use have increasingly drawn a wider range of interest as a text communication and video chat system between health care professionals and patients and health care professionals themselves. However, high-quality and adequately evaluated research, especially in the field of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson´s disease, is needed to establish whether patients with these specific neurological problems can be effectively managed with these technological tools. In this study, patients with Parkinson´s disease from high, middle, and low-income countries covering urban and rural populations, with at least one neurologist with Movement Disorders practice (Spain, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Korea, United States, Egypt), will be included. Feasibility, clinical management, providers and patient´s satisfaction will be compared between in-office vs. telemedicine (virtual) visits. This study will show the effectiveness of telemedicine, when the access to specialized neurological care is limited, especially now with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Conditions

• Parkinson Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Telemedicine: Virtual visits (videoconferences, texts)	Patients will receive clinical care by using telemedicine (virtual visits)

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-28
• Primary completion: 2023-07-30
• Completion: 2023-07-30
• First posted: 2021-01-05
• Last updated: 2024-05-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain