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title: Improve walking reduce caregiver burden
nct_id: NCT06892717
status: RECRUITING
sponsor: Beylikduzu State Hospital
study_type: OBSERVATIONAL
canonical_url: "https://parkinsonspathways.com/trial/NCT06892717"
clinicaltrials_gov: "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06892717"
last_fetched: "2026-05-10T14:04:10.416Z"
source: "Parkinson's Pathways (curated)"
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# Improve walking reduce caregiver burden

**Goal (in five words):** Improve walking reduce caregiver burden

**Official Title:** Caregiver Burden and Associated Factors in Parkinson's Disease

**Trial ID:** [NCT06892717](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06892717)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** RECRUITING
- **Study Type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Sponsor:** Beylikduzu State Hospital
- **Target Enrollment:** 43 participants
- **Start Date:** 2025-02-10
- **Completion Date:** 2025-04-10
- **Conditions:** Parkinson Disease
- **Interventions:** 
- **Intervention Types:** OTHER

## Summary For Families

The goal is to measure caregiver burden and identify which patient and caregiver factors, like Parkinson's severity and daily care needs, are linked to higher stress, fatigue, or reduced quality of life for unpaid family caregivers. The study is observational, collecting information from patients and their informal caregivers using interviews, questionnaires, and routine clinical data to quantify burden and relate it to disease stage and care requirements. They are looking for people 40 to 80 years old with Parkinson's at Hoehn and Yahr stage 2 to 5 who need help with daily activities and who have an unpaid caregiver fluent in Turkish; people with other neurodegenerative diseases, active cancer, severe heart failure, COPD, stroke-related limitations, or immobility for reasons other than Parkinson's are excluded.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 40 Years
- **Maximum age:** 80 Years
- **Sex:** ALL

### Full Criteria

```
Inclusion Criteria:

* Age between 40-80 years
* Diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, Hoehn and Yahr stage 2-5
* Requires assistance in daily activities
* Informal caregiver providing care (unpaid, typically a family member such as a spouse or child)
* Caregiver has sufficient proficiency in Turkish to understand and respond to the study questions

Exclusion Criteria:

* Presence of any additional neurodegenerative disease other than Parkinson's disease
* Diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
* Advanced heart failure classified as New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class IV (symptoms at rest)
* Active cancer disease
* History of stroke causing limitations in daily life
* Immobility due to reasons other than Parkinson's disease
```

## Locations (1)

- Beylikdüzü State Hospital, Istanbul, Beylikdüzü, Turkey (Türkiye) _(41.0138, 28.9497)_
  - Büşra Şirin — (CONTACT) — 02124443322 — bsrn080@gmail.com
  - Büşra Şirin Ahısha, MD — (PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR)
  - Nurdan Paker, Prof — (SUB_INVESTIGATOR)

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