Benefits of a Self-Management Program for the Couple Living With Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Study.

The goal of this pilot study was to explore health benefits for couples participating together in an existing community-based self-management workshop for Parkinson's disease (PD). A quasi-experimental two-wave design explored the effects of the program in comparison to a wait-list control condition. Preliminary data ( = 39 couples) showed that spouses in the intervention group had greater engagement in mental relaxation techniques at 7 weeks than those in the control condition (large effect size).