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An education programme for individuals with Parkinson’s disease
Author(s) -
Sunvisson Helena,
Ekman SirkkaLiisa,
Hagberg Hjördis,
Lökk Johan
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.678
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1471-6712
pISSN - 0283-9318
DOI - 10.1046/j.1471-6712.2001.00048.x
Subject(s) - psychosocial , activities of daily living , medicine , gerontology , disease , session (web analytics) , psychology , physical therapy , psychiatry , pathology , world wide web , computer science
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.