A 6-week empathy and compassion training will be designed and delivered involving PD patients and caregivers. During the compassion training participants will do mindfulness, writing and poetry exercises addressing the cognitive, emotional, motivational and behavioural components of (self-)compassion. The training will be designed in order to address both self-compassion and compassion. We expect to conduct 1 session at the beginning and 1 session at the end of the program with exercises to do at home for 6 weeks, assigned as tasks based on the needs of patients and their caregivers

A 6-week empathy and compassion training will be designed and delivered involving PD patients and caregivers. During the compassion training participants will do mindfulness, writing and poetry exercises

the change (no min / max values foreseen) in the level of quality of life in PD patients as measured by the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-8), which assesses 8 domains of quality of life: mobility, activities of daily of living, emotional well-being, stigma, social support, cognition, communication, and bodily discomfort; higher scores indicate a worse quality of life

change in the level of empathy in PD patients and caregivers as measured by Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI): this questionnaire captures both the cognitive and emotional facets of empathy. It includes four seven-item subscales: 1) Fantasy (F) and 2) Perspective Taking (PT) for the cognitive dimension and 3) Empathic Concern (EC) and 4) Personal Distress (PersDis) for an emotional one. The F scale assesses the tendency to identify oneself imaginatively in characters and situations (for example, movie characters and novels); the PT scale contains elements that map to the ability to apply the perspectives of other people from their point of view; the EC scale evaluates feelings of compassion and concern regarding other people; the PersDis measures the personal feelings of anxiety and discomfort that are experienced by observing the negative emotion