Therapeutic Education in Parkinson's Disease: What Impact on Drug Representations of Patients? (ETPARK-REMED) (ETPARK-REMED)

April 29, 2026 updated by: University Hospital, Toulouse

Therapeutic Education in Parkinson's Disease: What Impact on Drug Representations of Patients?

Dopaminergic drug can have adverse effects leading to potential serious consequences. Therapeutic patient education must promote the understanding of drugs to improve its management. This study tries to evaluate the effect of therapeutic education workshop on Parkinson disease's drug (drug workshop) on the evolution of drug's representations in patients with Parkinson's disease compared to a control group.

Study Overview

Status

Status

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Completed

Conditions

Conditions

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Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

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Detailed Description

Dopaminergic drug can have adverse effects leading to potential serious consequences. Therapeutic patient education must promote the understanding of drugs to improve its management.

The therapeutic educational program ETPARK includes individual's consults or workshop. The team frequently offer to patients to participate in workshop on Parkinson disease's drug.

This study tries to evaluate the effect of therapeutic education workshop on Parkinson disease's drug (drug workshop) on the evolution of drug's representations in patients with Parkinson's disease compared to a control group (speaking group) at 1 and 3 months.

Study Type

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Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

Enrollment

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24

Phase

Phase

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  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

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Study Locations

  • France
    • Occitanie
      • Toulouse, Occitanie, France, 31059
        • Toulouse University Hospital

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 75 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with Parkinson's disease according to the United Kingdom Parkinson Disease Society Brain Bank (UKPDSBB) criteria,
  • Patients who are already in therapeutic education program ETPARK,
  • Patients who need and want to participate in therapeutic education workshop on Parkinson disease drug,
  • Patients with health insurance,
  • Patients who have signed a written informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients suffering from another parkinsonian syndrome (multiple system atrophy, progressive supranuclear palsy etc.),
  • Patients who has already done workshop on Parkinson disease drug (program ETPARK)
  • Patients already included in clinical trial during the study,
  • Patients who have severe psychiatric disorders or dopaminergic psychosis,
  • Patients with cognitive impairment,
  • Patients unable to complete the various scales used in the study,
  • Patients under juridical protection,
  • Women pregnant or breastfeeding.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Other
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Participant Group / Arm

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Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

A process or action that is the focus of a clinical study. Interventions include drugs, medical devices, procedures, vaccines, and other products that are either investigational or already available. Interventions can also include noninvasive approaches, such as education or modifying diet and exercise.
Experimental: Therapeutic education workshop
Two group receive therapeutic education workshop already existing in Toulouse University Hospital
Other: Therapeutic education workshop

Workshop on Parkinson disease drug has several educative sequences (lasting 4hours).

  • A first round table is organized to know the needs and issues related to drug management of patients.
  • The 1st educative sequence consists in knowing the different class of dopaminergic drugs and their action.
  • The 2nd educative sequence leads patients to understand their prescription and be aware of the needs to take pills regularly.
  • The 3rd educative sequence consists in learning and identifying potentials adverse effects and finds effective strategies to prevent them.

At the end, one patient explains its tips and tricks about its drug management
Other: Speaking Therapy
One group receive speaking therapy already existing in Toulouse University Hospital
Other: Speaking Therapy
Speaking group is leaded by a psychologist from Centre Expert Parkinson (lasting 2 hours). This specific time is an exchange between patients with Parkinson disease who feel free to come. It is about sharing its own experience. It is a very special moment, confidential and kindly where patients don't judge themselves and speak only if they want to.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, the planned outcome measure that is the most important for evaluating the effect of an intervention/treatment. Most clinical studies have one primary outcome measure, but some have more than one.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Evolution of Drug representation in Patients : BMQ
Time Frame: Three months

Evolution of Drug representation through the Believe about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ) compared to the control group. Evolution will be compared between the Baseline and the end of the study

BMQ with eighteen items coded from 1 " "strongly agree" to 5 "strongly disagree".
Three months
Evolution of Drug representation in Patients : Verbal association
Time Frame: Three months
Evolution of Drug representation through verbal association tasks compared to the control group. Evolution will be compared between the Baseline and the end of the study
Three months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Secondary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, a planned outcome measure that is not as important as the primary outcome measure for evaluating the effect of an intervention but is still of interest. Most clinical studies have more than one secondary outcome measure.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Drug representation in caregivers : Verbal association
Time Frame: Day 1
Drug representation through verbal association tasks.
Day 1
Drug representation in caregivers : BMQ
Time Frame: Day 1
Drug representation through the Believe about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ). BMQ with eighteen items coded from 1 " "strongly agree" to 5 "strongly disagree".
Day 1
Knowledge about the disease
Time Frame: three months
Evolution between Baseline and three months with a test created for the study. The test have 8 questions with two answers possible : True or False
three months
Evolution in life quality : VAS
Time Frame: three months

Evolution in life quality evaluate with Visual Analog Scale (VAS), 0 being the worst quality of life and 10 the best quality of life he can have.

Evolution between Baseline and three months
three months
Evolution in life quality : PDQ-(39)
Time Frame: three months

Evolution in life quality evaluate with Parkinson Disease Quotation (PDQ)-39 with thirty-nine items coded from 1 " "always" to 5 "never". The Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39) assesses how often people affected by Parkinson's experience difficulties across 8 dimensions of daily living including relationships, social situations and communication.

Evolution between Baseline and three months
three months

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Sponsor

The organization or person who initiates the study and who has authority and control over the study.
University Hospital, Toulouse

Collaborators

Collaborators

An organization other than the sponsor that provides support for a clinical study. This support may include activities related to funding, design, implementation, data analysis, or reporting.
France Parkinson Association

Investigators

Investigators

A researcher involved in a clinical study. Related terms include site principal investigator, site sub-investigator, study chair, study director, and study principal investigator.
  • Principal Investigator: Christine Brefel-Courbon, MD, Univeristy Hospital Toulouse

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

Study Start

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February 24, 2020

Primary Completion (Actual)

Primary Completion

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January 1, 2021

Study Completion (Actual)

Study Completion

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January 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

First Submitted

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January 9, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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January 13, 2020

First Posted (Actual)

First Posted

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January 14, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

Last Update Posted

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May 6, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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April 29, 2026

Last Verified

Last Verified

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April 1, 2026

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Terms related to this study

Keywords

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Other Study ID Numbers

Other Study ID Numbers

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  • RC31/19/0183
  • 2019-A02754-53 (Other Identifier: ID-RCB)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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