Virtual Action Planning in Parkinson's Disease: AControl Study
| Autor: | Rose-Marie Marié, Isabelle Chemin, Sophie Lebreton, Evelyne Klinger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Planning medicine.medical_specialty Activities of daily living Neuropsychological Tests Virtual reality Affect (psychology) Severity of Illness Index Session (web analytics) Task (project management) User-Computer Interface Physical medicine and rehabilitation medicine Humans Dementia Applied Psychology Aged Communication Parkinson Disease General Medicine medicine.disease Test (assessment) Human-Computer Interaction Visual Perception Physical therapy Female Cognition Disorders Psychology |
| Zdroj: | CyberPsychology & Behavior. 9:342-347 |
| ISSN: | 1557-8364 1094-9313 |
| DOI: | 10.1089/cpb.2006.9.342 |
| Popis: | Cognitive planning deficits affect patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and traditional psychometric tests meet difficulties to evaluate their impact on daily life activities. Virtual reality (VR) may provide a new means of assessment. The objective of this study was firstly to develop a virtual environment (VE) useful to explore planning and secondly to examine the effectiveness of using VR in the assessment of cognitive planning for patients with PD. A virtual supermarket (VS) was designed in which participants carried out a task close to daily activities: a test of shopping list. There were two preliminary sessions to familiarize the participants with the software and the supermarket's layout. Then, during the assessment session, participants completed the task, without any time limitation. Global intellectual efficiency was assessed in order to exclude patients with dementia. Data related to the performance in the VS were recorded. Five patients with PD and five age-matched healthy volunteers, meeting inclusion criteria, constituted our convenience sample. The patients did not perform as well as the control group. In particular, the session's duration and the distance covered were longer. The patients' path is specific with numerous stops, turning around, and hesitancies. Finally, their motivation for further training sessions is aroused. The results underline the potential of using VR in the assessment of cognitive planning in PD. A larger analysis is currently being carried out to confirm and to explore all the outcome measures. |
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