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Parkinson DiseasePD-UDNCT03917732

Cognitive Therapy for Urinary Dysfunction in Parkinson´s Disease

A study testing cognitive training and pelvic floor training in people with Parkinson Disease and Urinary Disease Other, run by University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein at 1 site in Germany.

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Trial summary

Idiopathic Parkinson's syndrome (IPS) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases. The prevalence and significance of this disease is continuously increasing in the course of demographic change. For many decades, the focus of diagnostics and therapy was on the motor symptoms of IPS. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Any age, women only
Conditions the study is for
Parkinson Disease, Urinary Disease Other
What is being tested?
cognitive training and pelvic floor training
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
45 participants
Where
1 siteGermany
Study dates
Apr 2019to Dec 2020
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages Any age
  • Women only
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • consenting capacity (MOCA >17) and written consent
  • idiopathic parkinson syndrome according to UK Brain Bank criteria
  • female gender

Who cannot join

  • missing consenting capacity (MOCA <18)
  • current depressive episode (BDI > 18)
  • current intake of medication for the treatment of bladder dysfunction

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Inken Rothkirch, Dr. phil. contact

0431 500 23985

i.rothkirch@neurologie.uni-kiel.de

Germany1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein

    Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, 24105

    Inken Rothkirch, Dr. phil., 0431 500 23985, i.rothkirch@neurologie.uni-kiel.de

    Inken Rothkirch, Dr. phil.

    Recruiting

Other trials in Germany

About this study

Official title: Randomized Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy of a Cognitive Training Approach to Improve Urinary Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease

Idiopathic Parkinson's syndrome (IPS) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases. The prevalence and significance of this disease is continuously increasing in the course of demographic change. For many decades, the focus of diagnostics and therapy was on the motor symptoms of IPS. Only in recent years, it has been recognized that Parkinson's patients also suffer from a variety of non-motor symptoms. These have a decisive influence on the patient's quality of life. As one of the most common non-motor symptoms, 55 to 80% of IPS patients suffer from urinary dysfunction. This is associated with a very high impairment of quality of life due to a high degree of stigmatization and impairment of social participation. In clinical everyday life, Parkinson's patients regularly report the occurrence of a strong imperative urge to urinate, which occurs suddenly and is usually triggered by a certain external stimuli. Specific cognitive processing and reflection of these external stimuli seems to help overcome the imperative urge to urinate. From this clinical observation, it can be assumed that the imperative urge to urinate is subject to a certain cognitive control in the sense of targeted inhibition.

The pharmacological therapy of urinary dysfunction in IPS patients is severely restricted and characterized by insufficient proof of efficacy as well as a high potential for side effects. In clinical practice, alpha-blockers and anticholinergics are frequently used, but the evidence base for IPS is inadequate. In addition, there is a highly relevant risk for Parkinson's patients of specific side effects such as orthostatic dysregulation or deterioration of cognition up to psychoses and hallucinations. This greatly limits their use especially in older IPS patients. While the use of dopaminergic medication is essential for the treatment of motor symptoms in Parkinson's patients, a large number of studies have not confirmed sufficient evidence for the efficacy of dopaminergic medication in urinary dysfunction. In addition, non-pharmacological therapy options, in particular pelvic floor training, are used to treat bladder dysfunction. Due to the lack of risk of side effects, pelvic floor training is currently recommended as a first-line therapy option for IPS patients. Initial studies have shown positive effects, but due to the lack of randomized controlled trials, a sufficient evidence base for this has not yet been established.

The aim of the study is to examine whether a purely cognitive therapy approach is suitable to improve subjective and objective symptoms of urinary dysfunction in IPS patients. This therapeutic approach will be compared with the gold standard of pelvic floor training in terms of efficacy.

Being tested
cognitive training, pelvic floor training
Medical subject headings
Parkinson Disease

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • cognitive trainingBehavioural

    The cognitive training the investigators are planning consists of three modules which, in their entirety, are intended to help improve bladder dysfunction, which leads to psychological distress in patients: psychoeducation, training of cognitive functions and training in behavioural therapeutic techniques.

    The training will take place over six weeks, with two sessions per week in the first three weeks. In the following three weeks the frequency will be reduced to once a week so that there will be 9 sessions. The duration of each training session is 90 minutes.

  • pelvic floor trainingBehavioural

    At the beginning of the training, perception of the pelvic floor is the most important factor. The patients should learn the motor skills to consciously perceive and feel the pelvic floor muscles. This requires a lot of concentration and movement control. After this perception phase, the learned movements are internalized. The fine coordination of the pelvic floor muscles is more harmonious and the tensing and relaxing of the muscles becomes easier over time. In the last phase of the training, the movements and muscle activations should be internalised in such a way that they are anchored as automated movement patterns.

    The training will take place over six weeks, with two sessions per week in the first three weeks. In the following three weeks the frequency will be reduced to once a week so that there will be 9 sessions. The duration of each training session is 90 minutes.

Study groups in NCT03917732
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
cognitive trainingExperimentalThe cognitive training the investigators are planning consists of three modules which, in their entirety, are intended to help improve bladder dysfunction, which leads to psychological distress in patients: psychoeducation, training of cognitive functions and training in behavioural therapeutic techniques. The training will take place over six weeks, with two sessions per week in the first three weeks. In the following three weeks the frequency will be reduced to once a week so that there will be 9 sessions. The duration of each training session is 90 minutes.
Receives: Behavioral: cognitive training
pelvic floor trainingActive comparatorAt the beginning of the training, perception of the pelvic floor is the most important factor. The patients should learn the motor skills to consciously perceive and feel the pelvic floor muscles. This requires a lot of concentration and movement control. After this perception phase, the learned movements are internalized. The fine coordination of the pelvic floor muscles is more harmonious and the tensing and relaxing of the muscles becomes easier over time. In the last phase of the training, the movements and muscle activations should be internalised in such a way that they are anchored as automated movement patterns. The training will take place over six weeks, with two sessions per week in the first three weeks. In the following three weeks the frequency will be reduced to once a week so that there will be 9 sessions. The duration of each training session is 90 minutes.
Receives: Behavioral: pelvic floor training

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Change in the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Overactive Bladder Module (ICIQ-OAB)

    The ICIQ-OAB is a questionnaire for evaluating overactive bladder and related impact on quality of life (QoL) and outcome of treatment in men and women in research and clinical practice across the world. The ICIQ-OAB is derived from the fully validated ICSmale and BFLUTS questionnaires and provides a measure to assess the impact of urinary frequency, urgency, urge incontinence and nocturia symptoms.

    Measured: 4 weeks before beginning and 4 weeks after completion of the training

  2. Change in the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Quality of Life Module (ICIQ-LUTSqol)

    The ICIQ-LUTSqol is a psychometrically robust patient-completed questionnaire evaluating quality of life (QoL) in urinary incontinent patients for use in research and clinical practice across the world. The ICIQ-LUTSqol is the King's Health Questionnaire (KHQ) adapted for use within the ICIQ structure and provides a measure to assess the impact of urinary incontinence on quality of life with particular reference to social effects. It is an ideal research tool as it explores in detail the impact on patients' lives of urinary incontinence and can be used as an outcome measure to assess impact of different treatment modalities.

    Measured: 4 weeks before beginning and 4 weeks after completion of the training

  3. Change in the Patient Perception of Bladder Condition (PPBC)

    The PPBC is a single-item, global outcome measure for urinary incontinence.

    Measured: 4 weeks before beginning and 4 weeks after completion of the training

  4. Change in the International Prostate Symptom Score (I-PSS)

    The International Prostate Symptom Score (I-PSS) is based on the answers to seven questions concerning urinary symptoms and one question concerning quality of life. Each question concerning urinary symptoms allows the patient to choose one out of six answers indicating increasing severity of the particular symptom. The answers are assigned points from 0 to 5. The total score can therefore range from 0 to 35 (asymptomatic to very symptomatic).

    Measured: 4 weeks before beginning and 4 weeks after completion of the training

  5. Change in the Uroflowmetric

    Uroflowmetry measures the flow of urine. It tracks how fast urine flows, how much flows out, and how long it takes. It's a diagnostic test to assess how well the urinary tract functions.

    Measured: 4 weeks before beginning and 4 weeks after completion of the training

Secondary outcomes (6)
  1. Change in the Verbal memory function through the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT)

    Participants are given a list of 15 unrelated words repeated over five different trials and are asked to repeat. Another list of 15 unrelated words are given and the client must again repeat the original list of 15 words and then again after 30 minutes.

    Measured: 4 weeks before beginning and 4 weeks after completion of the training

  2. Change in the Visuomotor abilities and nonverbal memory Rey-Osterrieth complex figure test (ROCF)

    The Rey-Osterrieth complex figure test (ROCF) is a neuropsychological assessment in which patients are asked to reproduce a complicated line drawing, first by copying it freehand (recognition; measures visuomotor abilities), and then drawing from memory (recall; measures nonverbal memory).

    Measured: 4 weeks before beginning and 4 weeks after completion of the training

  3. Change in the Verbal short term memory functions through the Digit Span test

    Verbal short term memory span measures the number of discrete units over which the patient can successively distribute his attention and still organize them into a working unit. To generalize, it refers to the ability of the patient to reproduce immediately, after one presentation, a series of discrete stimuli in their original order.

    Measured: 4 weeks before beginning and 4 weeks after completion of the training

  4. Change in the Response inhibition through the Stroop test

    The Stroop test is a widely used measure of selective attention that requires interference resolution, response inhibition, and response selection.

    Measured: 4 weeks before beginning and 4 weeks after completion of the training

  5. Change in the Visual attention and task switching though the Trial Making Test

    The Trail Making Test is a neuropsychological test of visual attention and task switching. It consists of two parts in which the subject is instructed to connect a set of 25 dots as quickly as possible while still maintaining accuracy.

    Measured: 4 weeks before beginning and 4 weeks after completion of the training

  6. Change in the Word fluency through the Regensburger Word Fluency Test

    In the Regensburger Word Fluency Test patients have to produce as many words as possible from a given category or beginning with a specific letter within 2 minutes.

    Measured: 4 weeks before beginning and 4 weeks after completion of the training

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted17 Apr 2019
  2. Study startApr 2019 (estimated)
  3. Primary completionSep 2019 (estimated)
  4. Study completionDec 2020 (estimated)

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
Single blind
Who is masked
Investigator
Enrolment
45 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03917732
Sponsor's protocol ID
D418/19
Acronym
PD-UD
Status last verified
Apr 2019
First submitted
1 Apr 2019
Last updated
17 Apr 2019
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing cognitive training and pelvic floor training in people with Parkinson Disease and Urinary Disease Other, run by University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein at 1 site in Germany.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 17 Apr 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Germany. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Inken Rothkirch, Dr. phil. (0431 500 23985, i.rothkirch@neurologie.uni-kiel.de), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Change in the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Overactive Bladder Module (ICIQ-OAB) (time frame: 4 weeks before beginning and 4 weeks after completion of the training). The study lists 5 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 17 Apr 2019.

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