Journal Article

DZNE-2022-00510

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patients with Parkinson’s Disease from the Perspective of Treating Physicians—A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study

Wolff, A. W. ; Haller, B. ; Demleitner, A. F. ; Westenberg, E. ; Lingor, P. (Last author)DZNE*

2022
MDPI AG Basel

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Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed challenges to maintaining medical care for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The Parkinson’s Disease during the COVID-19 Pandemic (ParCoPa) survey was conducted as an online, nationwide, cross-sectional survey from December 2020 to March 2021 and aimed to assess the impact of the pandemic on the medical care of PD patients from the physicians’ perspective. Invitations containing a randomly generated registration code were mailed to healthcare professionals from sixty-seven specialty centers in Germany. Confounders for the worsening of subjective treatment quality, perceived health risk due to the profession, and adequate protective measures against SARS-CoV-2 were assessed using logistic regression analysis. Of all forty physicians who responded, 87.5% reported a worsening of motor and nonmotor symptoms in their patients, 97.5% experienced cancellation of appointments, and difficulties in organizing advanced and supplementary therapies were reported by over 95%. Participants offered alternative consultation options, mostly in the form of telephone (77.5%) or online (64.1%) consultations, but telephone consultations were the most accepted by patients (“broadly accepted”, 40.0%). We identified pandemic-related deficits in providing care for patients with PD and areas of improvement to ensure continued care for this vulnerable patient population.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Translational Studies and Biomarkers (AG Zerr)

Research Program(s):

1. 353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353) (POF4-353)

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