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Abstract
Aim
As various physiotherapeutic approaches are available to improve either motor or non-motor symptoms, the study was conducted for evaluating the effectiveness of Institution based Rehabilitation protocol to improve quality of life in patients with Parkinson’s Disease (IRQOL-PD) to focus on both types of symptoms simultaneously.
Method
The non-randomized controlled trial pilot study recruited 42 participants with Parkinson’s disease (age between 35-80 years) for 5 weeks of treatment sessions to evaluate the validity, reliability, and effectiveness of the designed protocol. The Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) and Hoehn and Yahr scale (H&Y scale) were used as outcome measures.
Result
The IRQOL-PD with content validity index (0.9), intra-rater reliability (Intra-class Co-relation Coefficient = 1 and Cronbach’s alpha = 1) and inter-reliability (Pearson correlation coefficient > 0.90 and <0.50 for UPDRS and H&Y respectively) established the statistical and clinical improvement in experimental group related to UPDRS grading (p-value = 0.008).
Conclusion
IRQoL – PD protocol was effective to delay the progression of disease without any requirement of special equipment.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
CRediT author statement
Data availability statement
The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in Mendeley Data set at DOI: 10.17632/55j958jhp9.1.
Additional information
Notes on contributors
Nidhi Sharma
Nidhi Sharma: Visualization, Conceptualization, Planning, Writing-Content, Review and Editing, Final approval of manuscript, Formal analysis; Anju Goyat: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing- original draft preparation, Data curation; Priyanka Sharma: Writing – Content, Data Analysis; Adarsh Kumar Srivastav: Writing – Content, Review and editing, Data Analysis; BK Agrawal: Investigation, Data Collection, Validation; Manpreet Kaur: Manuscript writing- Original draft preparation, validation, data compilation; All the authors approved the manuscript.