Reliability and Validity of DIDA-Q in Parkinson's Disease

Validity and Reliability of the Dual Task Impact on Daily Living Questionnaire in Patients with Parkinson's Disease

The aim of our study is to investigate the validity and reliability of the Dual Task Impact on Daily-living Activities (DIDA-Q) to assess the degree of difficulty felt when performing dual tasks during activities of daily living in patients with Parkinson's disease. In our study, the validity and reliability of a questionnaire to assess the degree of difficulty felt while performing dual tasks during activities of daily living in Parkinson's Disease will be examined for the first time. The study will include 95 participants with Hoehn-Yahr Stage 1-3, diagnosed with Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease and able to walk 10 metres without an assistive device.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Parkinson Disease
• Intervention / Treatment: Diagnostic test: Dual Task Impact on Daily-living Activities Questionnaire

Detailed Description

Dual task ability is defined as the ability to perform two activities simultaneously . It is known that the ability to perform a motor or cognitive secondary activity at the same time during walking (talking to a person next to you while walking or carrying objects while walking) leads to gait and balance problems of different severity depending on the type of secondary task in Parkinson's Disease (PD). When patients with Parkinson's Disease (pwPD) are exposed to dual-task walking, their walking speed and length of stride decrease, and the frequency of freezing phenomena during walking increases. Consequently the risk of falling increase during activities of daily living. Individuals often perform dual tasks while performing activities of daily living because of the nature of the tasks' requirements. Therefore, it has become important to evaluate dual task performance in order to create the right treatment plan in the field of neurological physiotherapy and rehabilitation. Although dual task performance is evaluated with different formulae in the literature, the number of scales evaluating the level of difficulty perceived by the patient during the performance of activities of daily living under dual task is limited. The validity of the existing scales for PD has not been studied. The Dual-task Impact on Daily-living Activities Questionnaire (DIDA-Q) is a patient-reported questionnaire developed to assess the degree of difficulty perceived when performing dual tasks during activities of daily living.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 95

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Çapa
    • Istanbul, Çapa, Turkey
      • Istanbul University, Faculty of Medicine

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients who diagnosed with Parkinson's disease were included.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Diagnosed with Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease according to UK Brain Bank criteria
• Walking at least 10 metres without an assistive device
• To have the cognitive capability to understand and answer the questions asked in the scale

Exclusion Criteria:

• Having any neurological disease other than idiopathic Parkinson's Disease
• The person has an orthopaedic or cardiopulmonary disease that affects walking
• Severe hearing-visual impairment

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
DIDA-Q	Dual Task Impact on Daily-living Activities Questionnaire, higher scores means bad dual task performance	1 week

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Six Spot Step Test cognitive	Designed to assess motor-cognitive dual task performance.	1 week
Dual Task Interference	It is calculating with a formula which contain single and dual task performance.	1 week
Dual Task Questionnaire	patient-reported questionnaire used to measure dual-task performance	1 week
Parkinson Activity Scale	a scale to assess patients' mobility and transfers	1 week
Mini-Mental State Examination	a short questionnaire giving information about the cognitive status of the patients	1 week
Freezing of Gait Questionnaire	a scale questioning the frequency of freezing and freezing qualities in walking	1 week

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Marmara University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 13, 2024
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 1, 2025
• Study Completion (Actual): January 10, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 13, 2025
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 11, 2025
• First Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 11, 2025
• Last Verified: January 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Parkinson's Disease; Dual-task Assessment; Neurological Physiotherapy
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Synucleinopathies; Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Movement Disorders; Parkinsonian Disorders; Basal Ganglia Diseases; Parkinson Disease
• Other Study ID Numbers: MarmaraU-SANLI-ERSOZ-001

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
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No