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Forty to 50% of the PwPD are reported to experience anxiety (Kwok et al., 2019). Anxiety is psychological distress characterized by excessive worry, and apprehension about future events (Khatri et al., 2020). Psychological distress with this population is secondary to care dependency, poor work and social function, increased physical and cognitive decline, increased dementia risk, and high mortality rate (Kwok et al., 2019).Exercise and meditation have been found to be useful coping strategies to manage one’s physical condition as well as psychosocial factors such as anxiety, with PD (Mantri et al., 2021).Although these coping strategies have the potential to reduce anxiety, there is a lack of understanding on which coping strategies PwPD utilize or should utilize to address symptoms of anxiety. Therefore, an exploratory study examining the lived experiences of PwPD, and their coping strategies is the basis of this investigation. This study used a mixed methods design with Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to better understand individuals with PD lived experiences with anxiety. The findings from this study suggest that the BAI scale had a limited potential to detect anxiety, possibly due to outcome measure administered post exercise.

Publication Date

12-2024

Publisher

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Medical Subject Headings

Coping skills, Meditation, Anxiety, Parkinsons, Outcome assessment, Health care, Psychological distress, Cognitive dysfunction, Dementia

Disciplines

Geriatrics | Movement and Mind-Body Therapies | Occupational Therapy | Physical Therapy

Comments

This poster was presented at the OTD Capstone Symposium held at the University of St. Augustine in December 2024.

Examining Anxiety and Coping Strategies with Persons with Parkinson's Disease (PwPD) Who Routinely Exercise

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