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The impact of COVID-19 and social distancing on people with Parkinson’s disease: a survey study

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the international community, very little is known about its impact on the health and day-to-day activities of people with Parkinson’s disease (PwPD). To better understand the emotional and behavioral consequences of the public health policies implemented...

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Autores principales: Feeney, Megan P., Xu, Yaqian, Surface, Matthew, Shah, Hiral, Vanegas-Arroyave, Nora, Chan, Amanda K., Delaney, Elizabeth, Przedborski, Serge, Beck, James C., Alcalay, Roy N.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7820020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33479241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41531-020-00153-8
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author Feeney, Megan P.
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Vanegas-Arroyave, Nora
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Delaney, Elizabeth
Przedborski, Serge
Beck, James C.
Alcalay, Roy N.
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description As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the international community, very little is known about its impact on the health and day-to-day activities of people with Parkinson’s disease (PwPD). To better understand the emotional and behavioral consequences of the public health policies implemented to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in PwPD, and to explore the factors contributing to accessing alternative health care mechanisms, such as telehealth, we administered an anonymous knowledge, attitude, and practice survey to PwPD and care partners, via the mailing lists of the Parkinson’s Foundation and Columbia University Parkinson’s Disease Center of Excellence with an average response rate of 19.3%. Sufficient information was provided by 1,342 PwPD to be included in the final analysis. Approximately half of respondents reported a negative change in PD symptoms, with 45–66% reporting mood disturbances. Telehealth use increased from 9.7% prior to the pandemic to 63.5% during the pandemic. Higher income and higher education were associated with telehealth use. Services were more often used for doctor’s appointment than physical, occupational, speech, or mental health therapies. Almost half (46%) of PwPD preferred to continue using telehealth always or sometimes after the coronavirus outbreak had ended. Having received support/instruction for telehealth and having a care partner, friend, or family member to help them with the telehealth visit increased the likelihood of continuous use of telehealth after the pandemic ended. Taken together, PD symptoms and management practices were markedly affected by COVID-19. Given the observed demographic limitations of telehealth, expanding its implementation to include additional physical, occupational, psychological, and speech therapies, increasing support for telehealth, as well as reaching underserved (low income) populations is urgently required.
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spelling pubmed-78200202021-01-28 The impact of COVID-19 and social distancing on people with Parkinson’s disease: a survey study Feeney, Megan P. Xu, Yaqian Surface, Matthew Shah, Hiral Vanegas-Arroyave, Nora Chan, Amanda K. Delaney, Elizabeth Przedborski, Serge Beck, James C. Alcalay, Roy N. NPJ Parkinsons Dis Article As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the international community, very little is known about its impact on the health and day-to-day activities of people with Parkinson’s disease (PwPD). To better understand the emotional and behavioral consequences of the public health policies implemented to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in PwPD, and to explore the factors contributing to accessing alternative health care mechanisms, such as telehealth, we administered an anonymous knowledge, attitude, and practice survey to PwPD and care partners, via the mailing lists of the Parkinson’s Foundation and Columbia University Parkinson’s Disease Center of Excellence with an average response rate of 19.3%. Sufficient information was provided by 1,342 PwPD to be included in the final analysis. Approximately half of respondents reported a negative change in PD symptoms, with 45–66% reporting mood disturbances. Telehealth use increased from 9.7% prior to the pandemic to 63.5% during the pandemic. Higher income and higher education were associated with telehealth use. Services were more often used for doctor’s appointment than physical, occupational, speech, or mental health therapies. Almost half (46%) of PwPD preferred to continue using telehealth always or sometimes after the coronavirus outbreak had ended. Having received support/instruction for telehealth and having a care partner, friend, or family member to help them with the telehealth visit increased the likelihood of continuous use of telehealth after the pandemic ended. Taken together, PD symptoms and management practices were markedly affected by COVID-19. Given the observed demographic limitations of telehealth, expanding its implementation to include additional physical, occupational, psychological, and speech therapies, increasing support for telehealth, as well as reaching underserved (low income) populations is urgently required. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7820020/ /pubmed/33479241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41531-020-00153-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Przedborski, Serge
Beck, James C.
Alcalay, Roy N.
The impact of COVID-19 and social distancing on people with Parkinson’s disease: a survey study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7820020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33479241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41531-020-00153-8
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