NCT05551338

Serious Games for Parkinson's Disease

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

IMPORTANCE: Rehabilitation games have been shown to improve cognitive function among people with various disorders but they have not been explored in home settings for patients with Parkinson's disease. OBJECTIVE: To collect pilot data regarding the therapeutic benefits of self-administered rehabilitation games among patients with Parkinson's disease. METHODS: The investigators will recruit 20 patients with Parkinson's disease into a pilot randomized controlled trial. Patients will be asked to perform two 30-minute sessions per week of training using serious games over a 3-month period in addition to conventional care or undergo only usual care. Patients will be evaluated at baseline, after 12 weeks of treatment, and at 24 weeks. Improvements in cognitive function, depression, quality of life, and mobility will be assessed. RELEVANCE: Identifying whether self-administered rehabilitation games can lead to clinical improvements could have significant implications for the management of the disease.

Conditions

• Parkinson Disease
• Parkinson

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Serious games	The training protocol will entail using a tablet-based program that includes 6 serious games. Patients will be asked to use the program twice a week for 3 months. The serious games that will be used in this study were developed to challenge short-term memory and selective attention in six different games. Each of the six games comprise 20 different stages of varying difficulty, where stage 1 is the easiest and stage 20 is the most difficult.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-15
• Primary completion: 2023-12-31
• Completion: 2023-12-31
• First posted: 2022-09-22
• Last updated: 2022-09-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States