Clinical trials: Community-based
Pediatric Obesity
Exergaming for Health: Impact of a Community-Based Active Video Gaming Curriculum in Pediatric Weight Management
Evaluation of the effectiveness of Exergaming for Health, a community-based multifaceted weight management program in a randomized controlled trial (RCT). Primary objective: to assess impact of the program on BMI z-scores.
- Trial name
- NCT02436330
- Testing
- Exergaming, Didactic health teaching
- Volunteers
- 84 people
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois Chicago
Vaccine Refusal, Covid19
Project 2VIDA! COVID-19 Vaccine Intervention Delivery for Adults in Southern California
The United States (U.S.) is the country with the largest number of infections and deaths due to COVID- 19 and racial/ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected.
- Trial name
- 2VIDA! (NCT05022472)
- Testing
- COVID-19 Individual Awareness and Education., COVID-19 Community Outreach & Health Promotion., COVID-19 Individual Health Education & Linkages to Medical and Supportive Services.
- Where
- 6 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,051 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Britt Skaathun
Overweight, Memory Disorder
Translation of Obesity and Cognitive Program by Lay Health Educators
Obesity is a major public health problem among older adults, with 31% of non-institutionalized older persons (60 years+) in the US obese and projections indicating that this will rise to 40% by 2010.
- Trial name
- Coaches (NCT01377506)
- Testing
- lifestyle counseling, Cognitive Training
- Volunteers
- 16 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Arkansas
Parent-Child Relations
What Are the Effects of Supporting Early Parenting by Increasing the Understanding of the Infant?
Key research question This project addresses the following key research question: What are the short and long term effects on child and family outcomes of a universal intervention delivered by a Health Visitor addressing the…
- Trial name
- NCT03070652
- Testing
- NBO, Newborn behavioral observation, Practice as usual
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 2,566 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
Obesity Prevention, Heart Disease
Promoting Physical Activity and Fitness Among Underserved Latino Families Living in U.S.-Mexico Border Regions
This study has the goal to increase physical activity and fitness among Latinos in San Diego, California and Mexicali, Baja California (U.S.-Mexico border) since these cities have similar diseases such as high rates of heart…
- Trial name
- AFL (NCT06596902)
- Testing
- Physical Activity
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 290 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- San Diego State University
Hepatitis C, Infectious Disease
HepCare: The Effectiveness of Community Based Interventions With Peer Support to Improve Case Detection, Carry Out Pre-treatment Assessments and Assist Underserved Populations Through HCV Treatment
Hepatitis C infection is a major cause of chronic liver disease and death with approximately 3% of the world's population is infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV).
- Trial name
- NCT03524794
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 164 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University College, London
Diarrhea, Malaria
Impact Evaluation of Community-Based Health Programs in Rwanda
Community Health Clubs to improve local sanitation, hygiene and health conditions have been implemented in several countries in Africa and Asia with some success.
- Trial name
- CBEHPP (NCT01836731)
- Testing
- Classic Intervention, Minimum Intervention
- Where
- 2 sites in Rwanda
- Volunteers
- 8,718 people
- Sponsor
- Georgetown University
Pediatrics, Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
School-Based Tele-Physiatry Assistance for Rehabilitative and Therapeutic Services
Using a randomized trial design, the goal of this project is to prospectively compare outcomes from a telemedicine-based model of care to two cohorts: patients who receive in-person pediatric physiatrist medical direction (the…
- Conditions
- Pediatrics, Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Physical Therapy Modalities
- Trial name
- STARS (NCT03320122)
- Testing
- Telemedicine, In-Person Pediatric Physiatrist, In-Person Non-Pediatric Physiatrist
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 350 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Davis
Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia, Anorexia Nervosa Restricting Type
Project CORE: Disseminating Eating Disorders Treatment
The goals of this project are to 1) develop training opportunities for master's-level and pre-doctoral psychology students in evidence-based assessment and treatment of adolescent EDs; 2) to provide the healthcare workforce…
- Conditions
- Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia, Anorexia Nervosa Restricting Type, Eating Disorders in Adolescence
- Trial name
- NCT03855553
- Testing
- Family Based Treatment, Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- The Miriam Hospital
Kwashiorkor, Marasmus
Effectiveness of Oral Albendazole in the Treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition
The benefit of anti-worm therapy as part of the case management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in the outpatient setting has not previously been studied.
- Trial name
- NCT01395381
- Testing
- Albendazole
- Where
- Malawi
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Chronic Pain
Impact of 4PCP on Practitioner and Patient Outcomes
Reducing opioid prescribing and improving outcomes in patients with chronic pain would benefit our nation. Neither addiction nor chronic pain spares any race, gender, or particular socio-economic status.
- Trial name
- 4PCP (NCT05580419)
- Testing
- 4PCP Course
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,188 people
- Sponsor
- Virginia Commonwealth University
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
Effectiveness of Prolonged Exposure of PTSD in a Community Setting of PTSD Sufferers
Introduction: Efforts to bridge the gap between research based treatment modalities advancements and clinical practice have received the highest priority in the research community.
- Trial name
- NCT00521768
- Testing
- Prolonged exposure
- Where
- Israel
- Sponsor
- HaEmek Medical Center, Israel
Suicide Prevention
Efficacy-Implementation Study for PC CARES in Rural Alaska
This participatory, pragmatic efficacy-implementation trial evaluates the impact of Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) to evaluate Learning Circle (LC) participant outcomes (AIM#1)…
- Trial name
- NCT06658808
- Testing
- Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,075 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Spirometry
The INTERvening for LUNG Health Trial
This research study is being done to find out whether a community health volunteer-delivered, multi-component program can improve lung health for people at risk of chronic respiratory diseases (such as asthma or COPD) in…
- Trial name
- INTERLUNG (NCT07540000)
- Testing
- Community health worker-delivered multi-component respiratory health intervention
- Where
- 2 sites in United States, Nepal
- Volunteers
- 800 people
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Mental Disorder, Depressive Symptoms
Module-Based Psychological (MBP) for Community Youths
This waitlist, randomised controlled trial (RCT) aims to examine the effectiveness of the Module-Based Psychological (MBP) intervention in reducing mental distress for youths aged 12-30 years in Hong Kong.
- Conditions
- Mental Disorder, Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety Symptoms
- Trial name
- MBP_RCT (NCT06005961)
- Testing
- Module-Based Psychological (MBP) Intervention
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
Malaria,Falciparum
Evaluation of Community-based Mass Screening and Treatment for Malaria in Western Kenya
This study is a cluster-randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of community-based mass screening with a malaria rapid diagnostic test, and treatment of participants with positive tests with an appropriate…
- Trial name
- MSaT (NCT02987270)
- Testing
- Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine
- Volunteers
- 90,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Simon Kariuki
Asthma, Obesity
HealthSpark: Health Access for Children in Federally-Subsidized Child Care
HealthSpark is a community-based research network of childcare centers designed to improve the health of children in Miami-Dade County.
- Conditions
- Asthma, Obesity, ADHD
- Trial name
- NCT00339027
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 960 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
Health Systems, Electronic Community Health Information Systems
Digital Data Linkage and Scheduling to Track Pregnancy With or Without Community Data Use to Increase Antenatal Clinic Uptake in Western Kenya.
The investigators propose to increase ANC uptake through a health systems strengthening approach that links digital data platforms and trains community Work Improvement Teams (WITs) to use these data to identify problems and come…
- Conditions
- Health Systems, Electronic Community Health Information Systems, Antenatal Clinic Uptake, Pregnancy
- Trial name
- C-it-DU-it (NCT05929586)
- Testing
- The combined "C-it DU-it" intervention: community data use for ANC
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 1,440 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Sepsis
Neonatal Sepsis, Evaluation, Bangladesh
More than half of under-five deaths in Bangladesh occur in the first month of life (neonatal period), and a substantial proportion of these deaths are due to infections (sepsis).
- Trial name
- NCT01333982
- Testing
- Amoxycillin, Gentamicin, Counselling
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 20,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Severe Pneumonia
Community Case Management of the Severe Pneumonia With Oral Amoxicillin in Children 2-59 Months of Age
Two-arm cluster randomized controlled trial located in Hala district, Pakistan to determine the impact of using Lady Health Workers (LHW) of National Program for Family Planning and Primary Health Care to diagnose and manage…
- Trial name
- NCT01192789
- Testing
- Amoxicillin, Referral to Health facility
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 4,070 people
- Sponsor
- Aga Khan University