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Table 2 Outcome measures and demographics, including at which time point the data will be collected

From: Evaluating a frontostriatal working-memory updating-training paradigm in Parkinson’s disease: the iPARK trial, a double-blinded randomized controlled trial

 

Outcome measures

Baseline

During intervention

Post-test

16 week follow-up

Primary outcome measure

 Criterion task

Letter memory running span

X

X

X

X

Secondary outcome measures

 Near transfer

  Updating

n-back (1,2 and 3 back)

X

 

X

X

Digit memory running span

X

 

X

X

 Intermediate transfer

 Perceptual and Psychomotor speed

Digit symbol

X

 

X

X

Perdue Pegboard

X

 

X

X

  Working memory

Digit span forward (WAIS IV)

X

 

X

X

Digit span backward (WAIS IV)

X

 

X

X

Digit span sequencing(WAIS IV)

X

 

X

X

Spatial span

X

 

X

X

  Inhibition

Stroop test (DKEFS)

X

 

X

X

  Shifting

TMT A and B (DKEFS)

X

 

X

X

 Far transfer

  Episodic memory

Buschke SRP

X

 

X

X

  Fluid reasoning

Martices (WAIS IV)

X

 

X

X

Other Pre-specified outcome measures

 Subjective cognitive complaints

Prospective retrospective memory questionnaire

X

 

X

X

 Depression and anxiety

Hospital Anxiety Depression scale (HAD)

X

 

X

X

 Health status

Short form health survey (sf-36)

X

 

X

X

 Sleep

Short version Karolinska Sleep questionaire

X

 

X

X

 Function and well being

Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire PDQ-39

X

 

X

X

 Fatigue

Checklist Individual Strength questionnaire (CIS)

X

 

X

X

 Impulsivity and Risk taking

Urgency, Premediation, Perseverance and Sensationseeking (UPPS)

X

 

X

X

Balloon analog test

X

 

X

X

 Adherence (task engagement)

Self-assessed motivation and ability to stay focused during training

 

X

  

 Compliance

Number of participants finishing within time frame

 

X

  

 Expectation

 Expectation of improvement in certain tasks

  

X

X

Self-assessed improvement and adverse events

Evaluation of the training

  

X

X

Demographics

 Age

Age at baseline

X

   

 Gender

Gender

X

   

 Handedness

Lef/right

X

   

 Education level

Years of education

X

   

 Disease duration

Months

X

   

 Disease stage

Hoehn and Yahr stage

X

   

 Global cognition

Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE)

X

   

 Motor function

Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale part III (UPDRS III)

X

   

 Disease laterality

Left/right

X

   

 Starting symptom and side

Symptom, Left/right

X

   

 Medication dose

LEDD

X

 

X

X

 Vocabulary

Swedish four alternative multiple-choice synonym test (SRB 1)

X

   

 Cognitive status

MCI/NC

X