Last updated: September 30, 2022
Sponsor: Northwestern University
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting
Phase
N/A
Condition
Parkinson's Disease
Treatment
Digital Speech Application
Clinical Study ID
NCT05421832
Ages > 30 All Genders Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Study Summary
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
Inclusion Criteria:
PD
- Male or female age 30 years or older at Screening Visit.
- Diagnosis of PD as defined by MDS PD diagnostic criteria [1]
- PD severity at Screening Visit of either:
- PD Hoehn and Yahr Stage 1-2, inclusive (PD Cohort I)
- PD Hoehn and Yahr Stages 3-4, inclusive (PD Cohort II)
- Able and willing to complete all aspects of the study, including at home smartphone
app and Zoom telehealth assessments.
- Able to provide informed consent.
Prodromal PD:
- Confirmation that participant is eligible based on clinician determined predictive criteria of known risk of PD including
- Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD), possible, probable or definite, OR
- Hyposmia defined as less than 10th percentile on University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT), age and gender adjusted, OR
- Known genetic variants associated with PD risk, AND Confirmed eligible DAT scan.
- Male or female age 30 or older at Screening Visit.
- Able and willing to complete all aspects of the study, including at home smartphone app and Zoom telehealth assessments
- Able to provide informed consent.
Age & Sex Matched Healthy Control:
- Male or female age 30 years or older at Screening visit.
- Able and willing to complete all aspects of the study, including at home smartphone app and Zoom telehealth assessments
- Able to provide informed consent.
Exclusion
Exclusion Criteria:
PD
- Late-stage PD diagnosis (i.e., Hoehn & Yahr Stage 5) at Screening Visit
- Symptomatic or atypical PD syndromes due to either drugs (e.g., metoclopramide, flunarizine, neuroleptics) or metabolic disorders (e.g., Wilson's disease), encephalitis, or degenerative diseases (e.g., progressive supranuclear palsy).
- Current or active clinically significant neurological disorder other than PD (in the opinion of the Investigator).
- Significant cognitive impairment or clinical dementia at Screening that, in the opinion of the Investigator, would interfere with study evaluation.
- History of drug and/or alcohol abuse within the past year prior to Screening Visit.
- Inability or unwillingness to complete all aspects of the study - including use of a provisioned smartphone for study assessments; completion of telehealth assessments.
- Any other medical or psychiatric condition, which in the opinion of the investigator might preclude participation.
Prodromal PD:
- Clinical diagnosis of PD, other parkinsonism, or dementia.
- Any current or active clinically significant neurological disorder (in the opinion of the Investigator).
- Previously obtained MRI scan with evidence of clinically significant neurological disorder (in the opinion of the Investigator).
- Significant cognitive impairment or clinical dementia at Screening that, in the opinion of the Investigator, would interfere with study evaluation.
- History of drug and/or alcohol abuse within the past year prior to Screening Visit.
- Inability or unwillingness to complete all aspects of the study - including use of a provisioned smartphone for study assessments; completion of telehealth assessments.
- Any other medical or psychiatric condition, which in the opinion of the investigator might preclude participation.
Age & Sex Matched Healthy Control:
- First degree relative with PD (i.e., biologic parent, sibling, child).
- Any current or active clinically significant neurological disorder (in the opinion of the Investigator).
- Previously obtained MRI scan with evidence of clinically significant neurological disorder (in the opinion of the Investigator).
- Significant cognitive impairment or clinical dementia at Screening that, in the opinion of the Investigator, would interfere with study evaluation.
- History of drug and/or alcohol abuse within the past year prior to Screening Visit.
- Inability or unwillingness to complete all aspects of the study - including use of a provisioned smartphone for study assessments; completion of telehealth assessments.
- Any other medical or psychiatric condition, which in the opinion of the investigator might preclude participation
Study Design
Total Participants: 120
Treatment Group(s): 1
Primary Treatment: Digital Speech Application
Phase:
Study Start date:
September 27, 2022
Estimated Completion Date:
December 24, 2023
Study Description
Connect with a study center
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois 60611
United StatesActive - Recruiting
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