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Table 3 Distribution of questions in the study steps

From: EMPOWER-PD - A physical therapy intervention to empower the individuals with Parkinson’s disease: a study protocol for a feasibility randomized controlled trial

Steps

Week

Question

Baseline

0

1. What made you seek physical therapy?

2. What does Parkinson’s disease mean in your life?

3. What are your expectations with physiotherapy?

Post-intervention

8

4. What this physiotherapy program meant in your life?

5. What did you think about the physiotherapy program that you participated?

6. After physical therapy, do you think you will be able to perform the exercises at home after discharge? What made you feel more or less capable?

7. Now at the end of the supervised treatment, what is your opinion of the expectations that you had at the outset?

Post follow-up

12

8. Were you able to do this exercise without supervision in your daily life?

a) How was your experience?

b) If you cannot do, what were the reasons?

9. After this period without supervision, what has this physiotherapy program meant in the last months of your life?

10. After your participation in this study, the reasons that make you seek physiotherapy are the same?

  1. Note: Script assembled after pretest and familiarization with three individuals with PD.