Parkinson’s UK

Tech Guide

PACT

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Company:PACT

Page updated: 6 February 2025

PACT is an app which provides brief daily support for psychological wellbeing based on the talking therapy Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

The app provides 5-10 minute ‘bite-sized’ sessions that can help you learn to deal with difficult thoughts and feelings, manage stress, and adjust better to living with Parkinson’s symptoms and care routines.

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Features

  • Aims to improve psychological wellbeing by helping you learn to deal with difficult thoughts and feelings, manage stress, and adjust better to living with and managing Parkinson’s symptoms.
  • Uses audios, videos, and self-reflection activities.
  • The sessions are based on 3 main themes in ACT – being open, being present, and doing what matters.


Categories

Product type
  • Website
  • App
Targets
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
Helps with
  • Improving my mood
  • Sleeping

Questions

Is there any connection between PACT and Parkinson’s UK?

Yes. Parkinson’s UK awarded Dr Angeliki Bogosian a research grant to trial mindfulness based cognitive therapy delivered by Skype for people affected by Parkinson’s. You can read more about it here.

Parkinson’s UK also awarded Dr Bogosian’s team funding through our non-drug-approaches research grant to develop Personalised Acceptance and Commitment Therapy through app-based micro-content. This research led to the PACT app.

We have a series of policies and practices in place to make sure that our review is independent of any existing relationship between our organisations or staff. If you’d like to find out more about this, you can read about it in our transparency statement.


Background information on PACT

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