Sánchez-Herrera-Baeza, PatriciaRodríguez-Pérez, M. PilarFernandez-Gomez, GemmaBustamante-Palomo, NereaSerrada-Tejeda, SergioObeso-Benitez, PaulaMorales-Cabezas, MatildeMartinez-Piédrola, Rosa MPerez-de-Heredia-Torres, Marta2024-07-112024-07-112023-06Sánchez-Herrera-Baeza P, Rodríguez-Pérez MªP, Fernández-Gómez G, Bustamante-Palomo N, Serrada-Tejeda S, Obeso-Benítez P, Morales-Cabezas M, Martínez-Piédrola RM, Pérez-de-Heredia-Torres M. The Impact of Social Distancing Due to COVID-19 on Activities of Daily Living in Parkinson's Disease. Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Jun 8;11(12):1688.https://hdl.handle.net/10115/37568Introduction: To explore the impact of the lockdown and social distancing measures, applied for one year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic on Activities of Daily Living in patients with Parkinson’s disease, as well as to determine the association between daily performance and tasks requiring more manipulative dexterity. Methods: Data collection was carried out between 18 January and 22 March 2021 through telephone interviews. Patients were recruited from associations of patients with Parkinson’s disease in Spain. A questionnaire was designed including items from standardized tools of the Activities of Daily Living Questionnaire to measure the level of independence and from the Dexterity Questionnaire for manipulative dexterity. Results: There were 126 participants aged 36–89 years, 58% of whom were male. The results of our study reveal a significant decline in almost all the ADLs assessed. There is a moderate correlation between the degree of dependence in ADLs and the difficulty in performing activities requiring manipulative dexterity. Conclusions: Social isolation related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences may have contributed to an increase in the deterioration of manipulative ability, leading to a loss of ability to perform ADLs. These results show specific needs to be considered in the rehabilitation treatment of these patients.engAttribution 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Parkinson’s disease; COVID-19; social isolation; activities of daily living; manual dexterity 1. Introductioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.3390/healthcare11121688info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess