Meaning in life in late-stage Parkinson’s disease: results from the care of late-stage parkinsonism study (CLaSP) in six European countries

© The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.The Care of Late-Stage Parkinsonism (CLaSP) study is a longitudinal, multicentre, prospective cohort study to assess the needs and provision of care for people with late-stage Parkinson's disease and their caregivers in six European countries. As a cross-sectional study within the CLaSP study, 509 people with Parkinson's disease completed the "Schedule-for-Meaning-in-Life-Evaluation" (SMiLE) questionnaire. We compared the results to those of a representative sample of healthy participants (n = 856). People with late-stage Parkinson's disease reported family, partnership and spirituality as the greatest areas of importance. Overall, they had lower SMiLE indices compared to healthy participants. People with late-stage Parkinson's disease rated the importance of core meaning in life areas (namely family, social relations and health) as significantly lower than the representative cohort and they also rated satisfaction as significantly lower in most areas. In conclusion, people with late-stage Parkinson's disease do have areas where they can find meaning, such as family, partnership and spirituality. However, they indicate a lack of fulfilment of their individual MiL, reflected by low satisfaction rates in the majority of meaning in life categories. The need for spiritual support for people with Parkinson's disease indicates the important role of chaplains to help people with Parkinson's disease maintain meaning in life.Open access funding provided by Paracelsus Medical University. The study was funded through the Joint Programme–Neurodegenerative Disease Research; through national funding bodies in all six countries—United Kingdom: Economic and Social Research Council ES/L009250/1; Sweden: the Swedish Research Council and CLaSP/JPND HC-559-002; Germany: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Marburg, 01ED1403A, Munich, 01ED1403B; France: ANR-13-JPHC-0001-07; Portugal: HC/0002/2012; Holland: 733051003. In addition, the study was funded by MultiPark, the strategic research area for neuroscience at Lund University; the Swedish Parkinson Foundation; the Swedish Parkinson Academy, and the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Thigh muscle segmentation of chemical shift encoding-based water-fat magnetic resonance images: The reference database MyoSegmenTUM.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can non-invasively assess muscle anatomy, exercise effects and pathologies with different underlying causes such as neuromuscular diseases (NMD). Quantitative MRI including fat fraction mapping using chemical shift encoding-based water-fat MRI has emerged for reliable determination of muscle volume and fat composition. The data analysis of water-fat images requires segmentation of the different muscles which has been mainly performed manually in the past and is a very time consuming process, currently limiting the clinical applicability. An automatization of the segmentation process would lead to a more time-efficient analysis. In the present work, the manually segmented thigh magnetic resonance imaging database MyoSegmenTUM is presented. It hosts water-fat MR images of both thighs of 15 healthy subjects and 4 patients with NMD with a voxel size of 3.2x2x4 mm3 with the corresponding segmentation masks for four functional muscle groups: quadriceps femoris, sartorius, gracilis, hamstrings. The database is freely accessible online at https://osf.io/svwa7/?view_only=c2c980c17b3a40fca35d088a3cdd83e2. The database is mainly meant as ground truth which can be used as training and test dataset for automatic muscle segmentation algorithms. The segmentation allows extraction of muscle cross sectional area (CSA) and volume. Proton density fat fraction (PDFF) of the defined muscle groups from the corresponding images and quadriceps muscle strength measurements/neurological muscle strength rating can be used for benchmarking purposes

PDFF and muscle volume of healthy volunteers and patients in gracilis muscle.

<p>PDFF and muscle volume of healthy volunteers and patients in gracilis muscle.</p

Interface of the MyoSegmenTUM database.

<p>Interface of the MyoSegmenTUM database.</p

PDFF and muscle volume of healthy volunteers and patients in hamstring muscles.

<p>PDFF and muscle volume of healthy volunteers and patients in hamstring muscles.</p

PDFF and muscle volume of healthy volunteers and patients in quadriceps femoris muscle.

<p>PDFF and muscle volume of healthy volunteers and patients in quadriceps femoris muscle.</p

PDFF and muscle volume of healthy volunteers and patients in sartorius anterior muscle.

<p>PDFF and muscle volume of healthy volunteers and patients in sartorius anterior muscle.</p

Gender, age, weight, height, quantitative muscle strength measurements of healthy volunteers.

<p>Gender, age, weight, height, quantitative muscle strength measurements of healthy volunteers.</p