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title: Improve selfmanagement for nonmotor symptoms
nct_id: NCT07038486
phase: NA
status: RECRUITING
sponsor: Newcastle University
study_type: INTERVENTIONAL
canonical_url: "https://parkinsonspathways.com/trial/NCT07038486"
clinicaltrials_gov: "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07038486"
last_fetched: "2026-05-10T14:04:41.916Z"
source: "Parkinson's Pathways (curated)"
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# Improve selfmanagement for nonmotor symptoms

**Goal (in five words):** Improve selfmanagement for nonmotor symptoms

**Official Title:** The Impact of a Digital System on the Monitoring and Self-management of Non-motor Symptoms in People With Parkinson's

**Trial ID:** [NCT07038486](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07038486)

## Key Facts

- **Phase:** NA
- **Status:** RECRUITING
- **Study Type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Sponsor:** Newcastle University
- **Target Enrollment:** 30 participants
- **Start Date:** 2025-08-06
- **Completion Date:** 2026-09
- **Conditions:** Parkinson Disease
- **Interventions:** NMS Assist
- **Intervention Types:** DEVICE

## Summary For Families

The goal is to help people with Parkinson's better monitor and manage non-motor symptoms, like mood, sleep, and autonomic problems, so these often-hidden issues cause less daily disruption. The approach uses a smartphone-based system called NMS Assist that lets users log symptoms, track patterns over time, and receive tailored prompts and summaries to support self-management and communication with caregivers or clinicians. The trial is looking for adults 18 and over with a clinical Parkinson's diagnosis who are ambulant, not living in residential care, fluent in English, and have access to a compatible smartphone. People with significant cognitive impairment or Parkinson's disease dementia, secondary parkinsonism, recent involvement in the system's development, or other serious health issues that would make participation unsafe are excluded, and caregivers of participating patients may also join.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 18 Years
- **Sex:** ALL

### Full Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria: Individuals will be eligible if they meet the following inclusion criteria:

All:

* Age 18 years or over
* Have compatible smartphone/data access (access to a digital device is a necessary prerequisite of system use, and the formative usability study had success in recruiting participants with varying levels of experience with smartphones)
* Be fluent in English
* Able and willing to provide informed consent
* Able and willing to comply with intervention requirements

For clinically diagnosed people with Parkinson's (PwP) (ICD-10-CM G20):

* Not resident in a care home or nursing home
* Ambulant
* Interested in monitoring and managing their NMS

For CPs:

\- Be caring for a clinically diagnosed PwP (ICD-10-CM G20) who is participating in the study

Exclusion Criteria: Participants will be ineligible for the study if they meet any of the following exclusion criteria:

All:

* Previous involvement in the development or testing of the digital system
* In a dependent/unequal relationship with the research or care teams or any PPI representatives

PwP:

* Secondary cause of Parkinsonism
* Significant cognitive impairment or a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease dementia
* Significant comorbidity, which, in the opinion of the chief investigator, would preclude safe participation in the study or protocol compliance
* A life expectancy of \<6 months
* Living in residential care facilities
```

## Locations (1)

- Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom _(54.9733, -1.6140)_
  - Edward Meinert, PhD — (CONTACT) — 01912083811 — depth.ai@newcastle.ac.uk
  - Cen — (CONTACT)

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