Sign up to be part of ‘world-first’ global health study into Parkinson’s disease

A pioneering project invites people with Parkinson’s to take part in a ‘world-first’ global study and help change healthcare – with just their smartphones

Do you own a smartphone? Then you too can become a citizen scientist and help improve our insight and understanding of Parkinson’s disease in a new innovative global study.

The ‘100 for Parkinson’s’ global study is a pioneering project that promises to gather data about all aspects of living with Parkinson’s, including sleep quality, mood, exercise, diet and stress levels. According to the organisers, it is a ‘world-first, ethics-approved, people-centred’ project.

Using a smartphone app specially developed for the study by uMotif, participants will track 10 important health aspects over a period of 100 days.

This data will provide key information for a team of academic researchers from leading Parkinson’s charities to learn more about how different health factors affect the disease, and could lead to new discoveries about the condition. For example, we may discover how factors such as the time of day that medications are taken affect a patient’s reflexes.