title: An education programme for individuals with Parkinson's disease.
abstract: An education programme for individuals with Parkinson's disease. People with Parkinson's disease (PD) have to face a lot of ongoing sickness - depending on limitations in daily life and society. Ability for optimal living demands knowledge about the sickness, medications, side-effects and knowledge about the best way to go on living with PD. In this study, 43 persons with PD participated in an outpatient programme based on the structure of connection model. The programme consisted of two weekly 2-h sessions for 5 weeks. Each session consisted of 1 h of dialogue and 1 h of physical performance. The two teachers in the programme were registered nurse and registered physiotherapist. The programme was evaluated with focus on participants' psychosocial situation, mobility and activity in daily living. Participating in the programme gave these individuals an improved psychosocial situation and improved mobility pattern. However, these improvements were not transferred to habitual daily life, which suggests that task-oriented training provides the best solution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Occupational Therapy, and Elderly Care Research, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. helena.sunvisson@neurotec.ki.se
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sunvisson
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Ekman
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hagberg
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lökk
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020380:Needs Assessment; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011788:Quality of Life; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D018434:Sickness Impact Profile