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Parkinson Disease (PD)LIFECOG-PDNCT07813156

Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease: Interest of an Early Group-Based Cognitive Rehabilitation Program (LIFECOG-PD)

A study testing cognitive rehabilitation program in people with Parkinson Disease (PD), run by University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand at 1 site in France.

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Opening soon. The study is approved but enrolment has not started yet. Sites may already take enquiries.

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Trial summary

Current pharmacological treatments have not demonstrated significant improvement in cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD). Given the high prevalence and serious impact of cognitive impairment in PD, there is a pressing need for non-pharmacological interventions with demonstrated functional benefits. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Parkinson Disease (PD)
What is being tested?
cognitive rehabilitation program
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
24 participants
Where
1 siteFrance
Study dates
15 Sep 2026to 30 Sep 2027
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • • Men or women ≥18 years old, diagnosed with idiopathic Parkinson's disease according to the official diagnostic criteria defined by the Movement Disorder Society (MDS) ;
  • Without cognitive impairment based on neuropsychological evaluation or meeting level 2 Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) criteria defined by the MDS, and presenting an early subjective cognitive complaint defined by a score between 1 and 8 on the Subjective Cognitive Complaints Questionnaire for Parkinson's Disease (SCCQ-PD)
  • Non-demented according to MDS criteria
  • Ability to understand the protocol;
  • Ability to provide free and informed consent;
  • Patients covered by a social insurance system.

Who cannot join

  • • Any associated neurological disorder or active psychiatric pathology, including severe depressive episode or active psychotic episode. Participants with a Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) score above 21 will be excluded from the study and referred to an appropriate healthcare professional for further evaluation and follow-up as needed.
  • Patients meeting the criteria for Parkinson's disease dementia
  • Any clinical sign suggesting atypical parkinsonian syndrome (ocular motor disorder, cognitive impairment, apraxia, early falls).
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding women
  • Participants under legal protection measures such as judicial protection, deprivation of liberty, curatorship, or guardianship.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

France1 site
  • CHU de Clermont-Fd

    Clermont-Ferrand, 63000

    Lise LACLAUTRE, +33473754963, promo_interne_drci@chu-clermontferrand.fr

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About this study

Official title: Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease: Interest of an Early Group-Based Cognitive Rehabilitation Program

Current pharmacological treatments have not demonstrated significant improvement in cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD). Given the high prevalence and serious impact of cognitive impairment in PD, there is a pressing need for non-pharmacological interventions with demonstrated functional benefits. Cognitive rehabilitation is a structured program designed to help improve or compensate for patients' cognitive abilities by providing an approach tailored to each patient's individual needs and goals. Neuropsychologists from French Parkinson's Disease expert centers have developed a new cognitive rehabilitation program called LifeCOG-PD, for PD patients with a subjective cognitive complaint or a mild cognitive impairment (MCI), delivered at the hospital in seven 90-minute sessions conducted in groups of 3-4 participants. This program, combining psychoeducation, practical strategies, and personalized goal setting, aims to maintain patients' daily autonomy, enhance quality of life, and delay the cognitive impact of the disease.

By evaluating feasibility, acceptability and functional outcomes, this study will contribute critical data to inform future PD management guidelines to help support autonomy and cognitive resilience in PD.

Read the detailed description

This pilot interventional therapeutic study will aim at evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a new cognitive rehabilitation program designed to preserve autonomy and social roles among early PD MCI patients or isolated subjective cognitive complaint.

24 patients will be enrolled in this study in 5 french centers : Clermont-Ferrand, Bordeaux, Créteil, Nancy and Strasbourg.

The inclusion period is 12 months, and each patient's participation duration is a maximum of 13 months. This study will include 10 visits at the hospital :

  • inclusion visit (during the month preceding the start of the program)
  • 7 sessions of the program (W0, W2, W4, W6, W8, W10, W112)
  • a visit at 24 weeks (3 months after the end of the program)
  • a visit at 48 weeks (9 months after the end of the program)

Patients will receive 7 sessions of 1.5 hours each at their expert centre, spaced 15 days apart, in groups of 3-4 patients. The sessions will address theoretical and practical topics such as working memory and executive functions, attention, and prospective memory in relation to their personal goals. The neuropsychologist will be blinded from the neuropsychological assessment and the functional goals.

If the patient has a caregiver (spouse or other relative), the investigator may propose them to participate in the study. Their participation will consist of completing a satisfaction questionnaire assessing the perceived benefits of the program for the patient at 3 and 9 months post-program. If they agree, the investigator will obtain their agreement to the collection and use of their data within the framework of this research.

Being tested
cognitive rehabilitation program
Keywords
parkinson' s disease, cognitive rehabilitation program, subjective cognitive complaint or a mild cognitive impairment, functional autonomy
Medical subject headings
Parkinson Disease

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • cognitive rehabilitation programOther

    Patients will receive the program in 7 sessions of 1.5 hours each at their expert centre, spaced 15 days apart, in groups of 3-4 patients. The sessions will address theoretical and practical topics such as working memory and executive functions, attention, and prospective memory in relation to their personal goals.

Study groups in NCT07813156
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
cognitive rehabilitation programExperimentalPatients will receive the new cognitive rehabilitation program.
Receives: Other: cognitive rehabilitation program

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Proportion of patients completing the 7 sessions of the program

    Measured: at the end of the program at 12 weeks

Secondary outcomes (52)
  1. Proportion of ineligible participants after screening and inclusion

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  2. Number of participants who withdrew until the end of the program (Dropout rates).

    Measured: at the end of the program at 12 weeks

  3. Perceived level of interest with a satisfaction questionnaire (The Satisfaction with Therapy and Therapist Scale-Revised (STTS-R)

    Measured: At the end the program at 12 weeks

  4. Participants' experience of the program (practical organization of the sessions, understanding and expectations, overall acceptability and recommendations) using qualitative questionnaire

    Measured: et the end of the program at 12 weeks

  5. Perceived benefits of the program as reported by the participant at 3 months post treatment using qualitative questionnaire

    Measured: at 24 weeks

  6. Perceived benefits of the program as reported by the participant at 9 months post treatment using qualitative questionnaire

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  7. Perceived benefits of the program as reported by one of the patient's relatives at 3 months post treatment using qualitative questionnaire

    Measured: at 24 weeks

  8. Perceived benefits of the program as reported by one of the patient's relatives at 9 months post treatment using qualitative questionnaire

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  9. Level of achievement of individualized functional goals, assessed using GAS (treated as continuous data transformed by the zscore approach)

    Measured: at 24 weeks

  10. Level of achievement of individualized functional goals, assessed using GAS (treated as continuous data transformed by the zscore approach)

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  11. Functional autonomy with the Penn's Parkinson Autonomy Questionnaire-15 items (PDAQ-15)

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  12. Functional autonomy with the Penn's Parkinson Autonomy Questionnaire-15 items (PDAQ-15)

    Measured: at 24 weeks

  13. Functional autonomy with the Penn's Parkinson Autonomy Questionnaire-15 items (PDAQ-15)

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  14. Global subjective cognitive complaints : Subjective Cognitive Complaints Questionnaire for Parkinson's disease (SCCQ-PD)

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  15. Global subjective cognitive complaints : Subjective Cognitive Complaints Questionnaire for Parkinson's disease (SCCQ-PD)

    Measured: at 24 weeks

  16. Global subjective cognitive complaints : Subjective Cognitive Complaints Questionnaire for Parkinson's disease (SCCQ-PD)

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  17. Quality of life using the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39)

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  18. Quality of life using the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39)

    Measured: at 24 weeks

  19. Quality of life using the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39)

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  20. Self-Esteem using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  21. Self-Esteem using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale

    Measured: at 24 weeks

  22. Self-Esteem using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  23. Depressive symptoms using the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II)

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  24. Depressive symptoms using the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II)

    Measured: at 24 weeks

  25. Depressive symptoms using the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II)

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  26. Global cognitive assessment using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  27. Global cognitive assessment using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  28. Episodic memory using the 16-items Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  29. Episodic memory using the 16-items Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  30. Episodic memory using the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-R

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  31. Episodic memory using brief Visuospatial Memory Test-R

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  32. Attention using Digit Symbol Modalities test

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  33. Attention using Digit Symbol Modalities test

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  34. Attention using the Digit Span (Forward and Backward)

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  35. Attention using digit Span (Forward and Backward)

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  36. Executive functions using oral Letter-Number Sequencing task

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  37. Executive functions using oral Letter-Number Sequencing task

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  38. Executive functions using stroop Color and Word Test D-KEFS

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  39. Executive functions using stroop Color and Word Test D-KEFS

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  40. Visuo spatial treatment using the Benton Judgment of Line Orientation Test

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  41. Visuo spatial treatment using the Benton Judgment of Line Orientation Test

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  42. Visuo spatial treatment using the clock drawing test

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  43. Visuo spatial treatment using the clock drawing test

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  44. Language using the Boston Naming Test (French short form)

    Measured: at inclusion visit

  45. Language using the Boston Naming Test (French short form)

    Measured: at 48 weeks

  46. Participants' experience of the program (practical organization of the sessions, understanding and expectations, overall acceptability and recommendations) using a qualitative questionnaire

    at the end of the first session of the program

    Measured: at week 0

  47. Participants' experience of the program (practical organization of the sessions, understanding and expectations, overall acceptability and recommendations) using a qualitative questionnaire

    at the end of the session 2 of the program

    Measured: at 2 weeks

  48. Participants' experience of the program (practical organization of the sessions, understanding and expectations, overall acceptability and recommendations) using a qualitative questionnaire

    at the end of the session 3 of the program

    Measured: at 4 weeks

  49. Participants' experience of the program (practical organization of the sessions, understanding and expectations, overall acceptability and recommendations) using a qualitative questionnaire

    at the end of the session 4 of the program

    Measured: at 6 weeks

  50. Participants' experience of the program (practical organization of the sessions, understanding and expectations, overall acceptability and recommendations) using a qualitative questionnaire

    at the end of the session 5 of the program

    Measured: at 8 weeks

  51. Participants' experience of the program (practical organization of the sessions, understanding and expectations, overall acceptability and recommendations) using a qualitative questionnaire

    at the end of the session 6 of the program

    Measured: at 10 weeks

  52. Participants' experience of the program (practical organization of the sessions, understanding and expectations, overall acceptability and recommendations) using a qualitative questionnaire

    at the end of the session 7 of the program

    Measured: at 12 weeks

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted10 Sep 2026
  2. Study start15 Sep 2026 (estimated)
  3. Primary completion30 Sep 2027 (estimated)
  4. Study completion30 Sep 2027 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
24 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT07813156
Sponsor's protocol ID
RBHP 2026 VIDAL
Other IDs
2026-A01122-49
Acronym
LIFECOG-PD
Status last verified
Jul 2026
First submitted
1 Sep 2026
Last updated
10 Sep 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing cognitive rehabilitation program in people with Parkinson Disease (PD), run by University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand at 1 site in France.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 6 inclusion and 5 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: opening soon, as of the sponsor's last update on 10 Sep 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in France. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Lise LACLAUTRE (+334.73.754.963, promo_interne_drci@chu-clermontferrand.fr), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Proportion of patients completing the 7 sessions of the program (time frame: at the end of the program at 12 weeks). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 10 Sep 2026.

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