ArticleJournal of Parkinson's disease2020
Happiness: A Novel Outcome in Parkinson Studies?
Article in Journal of Parkinson's disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06036771 (Efficacy of the Voice-activated Intelligent Personal Assistant), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Efficacy of the Voice-activated Intelligent Personal Assistant (VIPA) Intervention on Psychosocial Well-being Among People With Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effectiveness of technological interventions on psychosocial well-being and perception of technological interventions among people with Parkinson's disease: A systematic review.Australasian journal on ageing · 2025Pooled it
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- Motivation Matters: Elucidating Factors Driving Exercise in People With Parkinson Disease.Physical therapy · 2025Article
- Operationalizing goal setting as an outcome measure in trials involving patients with frailty, multimorbidity or complexity.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2025Article
- The value of consciousness coaching in Parkinson's disease: Experiences and possible impact of holistic coaching.Clinical parkinsonism & related disorders · 2024Article
- Comparison of disability level between Early and Late Onset Parkinson's Disease using WHODAS 2.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- The silver linings of Parkinson's disease.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2022Article
- Evaluating the effects of dance on motor outcomes, non-motor outcomes, and quality of life in people living with Parkinson's: a feasibility study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Article
- Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Revision of the Pitt Wellness Scale for People in the University Environment.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Off Time Independently Affects Quality of Life in Advanced Parkinson's Disease (APD) Patients but Not in Non-APD Patients: Results from the Self-Reported Japanese Quality-of-Life Survey of Parkinson's Disease (JAQPAD) Study.Parkinson's disease · 2021Article
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Abstract
In this viewpoint, we draw attention to using happiness in clinical studies as an interesting outcome that is highly relevant to patients with Parkinson's disease. Quality of life (QoL) is thus far commonly used as main outcome in clinical trials. Happiness is a part of QoL, but also represents a construct on its own. While QoL mainly consists of quality perceptions of different extrinsic aspects of life, such as the environment or performance, happiness entails the intrinsic quality of the subjective enjoyment of life. Around 70% of people rate happiness as the most important thing in life. Happiness can be a difficult construct to measure, but we argue that self-compassion and well-being could serve as reliable indicators for happiness. We expect that happiness as outcome could probe the true value of an intervention for a patient, well beyond what is captured by more traditional outcomes such as motor scores or the general concept of QoL, which better reflect external factors. Because of the apparent importance of happiness to many people, we recommend that this concept is used more widely as outcome measure in future clinical trials.
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