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. 2023 Feb 27;24:147. doi: 10.1186/s13063-023-07084-8

Table 3.

Outcome measures for caregivers which will be measured at baseline, 12 and 24 months

Domain Outcome Measurement tool/method, where one is available
Caregiver measures Care-related quality of life Carer Experience Scale (primary outcome) [20]
Caregiver quality of life (PD-specific) Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire for carers (PDQ-carer) [50]
Caregiver burden Zarit Burden Interview [51]
Caregiver activation level Patient Activation Measure 13 UK (CG-PAM) [41]
Caregiver coping strategy BriefCOPE [38]
Care (including relationship to recipient, living with recipient, intensity of caring, duration of care duties, tasks of caring) N/A
Health Frailty Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE-FI) 75+ [25]
Sarcopenia SARC-F and SARC-CalF [28]
Malnutrition risk Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)
Nutritional risk Seniors in the community: risk Evaluation for Eating and Nutrition (SCREEN II)-14 item version [29, 30]
Performance Physical performance

Short physical performance battery (SPPB)

Time up and go test (TUG)

Physical activity Incidental and Planned Exercise Questionnaire for the Usual week (IPEQ-WA) [32]
Grip strength Hand-held dynamometer
Social Loneliness/social isolation 3-item Revised-UCLA Loneliness Scale plus a single item direct measure of loneliness [35]
Economic measures Caregiver costs The Caregiver Indirect and Informal Case Cost Assessment Questionnaire [52]
Process measures Frequency and type of engagement with PRIME Parkinson care (intervention arm) N/A

The following parameters will be assessed at baseline and/or at 12/24 months but are not outcome measures per se: fracture risk using FRAX* [45] and/or QFracture* [46]; habitual dietary intake using the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer Food frequency questionnaire* [47]