Clinical trials: Ethnicity
Stress, Psychological, Stress, Emotional
Biology, Identity & Opportunity Study
This study will implement an intervention designed to promote ethnic and racial identity development. It is hypothesized that the intervention will have positive effects on ethnic-racial identity development, stress biology…
- Conditions
- Stress, Psychological, Stress, Emotional, Stress, Physiological
- Trial name
- BIO (NCT03412162)
- Testing
- Ethnic and Racial Identity Promotion, Academic Skills Promotion
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
Dental Caries
Predicting Caries Risk in Underserved Toddlers in Primary Healthcare Settings
The study aims to develop a questionnaire that can be used to help uncover a child's risk of developing dental caries (also known as tooth decay or a cavity).
- Trial name
- NCT01707797
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,326 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Myopia
The Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Ethnicity and Refractive Error (CLEERE) Study
To compare and contrast normal eye growth, ocular component development, and refractive error development in Hispanic, African-American, and Asian schoolchildren with what happens in Caucasian children from the Orinda…
- Trial name
- NCT00000169
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Eye Institute (NEI)
Class I Malocclusion, Class II Div 1 Malocclusion
Assesment of Ethnic Bias in an Artificial Intelligence Based Orthodontic Diagnosis System
This study explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in orthodontics, which is the area of dentistry that focuses on correcting jaw and bite problems.
- Conditions
- Class I Malocclusion, Class II Div 1 Malocclusion, Class II Division 2 Malocclusion, Class III Malocclusion
- Trial name
- NCT07162753
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 10,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bezmialem Vakif University
Children, Behavior
Role of Ethnicity and Environment on Regulation of Response Towards Sensory Stimulation in Children
Difference in autonomic nervous system processes across cultural and ethnic groups was suggested and autonomic regulation differentiation may occur even at an early age.
- Trial name
- NCT02878824
- Testing
- Ethnicity, Environment
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 128 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Obesity, Adolescent, Stress
Ethnic Influences on Stress, Energy Balance and Obesity in Adolescents
The study will examine the mechanisms linking race, stress and biobehavioral factors to energy balance and obesity in both natural and controlled environments in African-American and Caucasian adolescent females.
- Conditions
- Obesity, Adolescent, Stress, Physical Activity
- Trial name
- NCT03369691
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 258 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Irvine
Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
School-Based Program On Metabolic Disease
Mexico occupies the first place worldwide in childhood obesity. Its urban and indigenous communities present different levels of westernization which have triggered different epidemiological diseases.
- Conditions
- Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Cardiovascular Function, Kidney Diseases
- Trial name
- NCT03768245
- Testing
- Health Education and Physical activity program, Nutrition Program
- Where
- Mexico
- Volunteers
- 800 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado
Community Mental Health Services
Patient Navigators for Children's Community Mental Health Services in High Poverty Urban Communities
The purpose is to study a model of mental health navigation for African American and Latinx children (0-14 years) in high poverty urban communities focused on reducing key parental attitudinal barriers to care.
- Trial name
- NCT05294042
- Testing
- Navigation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 154 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois Chicago
Aggressive Childhood Behavior
Enhancing School-Based Violence Prevention
The purpose of this study is to compare two versions of Mental Health Enhanced Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports in reducing aggression in middle school students.
- Trial name
- NCT04087772
- Testing
- Mental Health Enhanced Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS-MH), Racial/Ethnic Discrimination Interventions (RED)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 4,840 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
Chronic Hepatitis C
Prospective Anti-Hepatitis C Virus (Anti-HCV) Trial of Peg-Interferon and Ribavirin in Subjects of First Nations, Metis and Caucasian Ethnicity
Background: According to recent estimates, the prevalence of Chronic Hepatitis C (CHC) in Canada is three times more common in First Nations (FN)and Metis compared to non-FN populations.
- Trial name
- Praire (NCT00957866)
- Testing
- Pegylated Interferons (Peg-IFN) and Ribavirin
- Where
- 3 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Manitoba
Changes in Knee Measurements Between Egyptian and Western Population
Knee Posterior Femoral Condylar Offset and Tibial Slope of the Egyptian Population
this study is to compare the posterior condylar offset , posterior condylar offset ratio and tibial slope of Egyptian population with Asian and Western results.These results may be important to examine if contemporary total knee…
- Trial name
- knee (NCT03622034)
- Testing
- posterior condylar offset measurement
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
Health Behavior
Ecology of Medical Care - Utilisation of Health Care in Austria
BACKGROUND: A proper understanding of the attitudes towards its own health status and concise estimates concerning the health seeking behavior of the different subgroups of a population are highly desirable.
- Trial name
- ECOHCARE (NCT01261845)
- Where
- Austria
- Volunteers
- 3,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University of Vienna
Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety Disorders and Symptoms
One Talk at a Time: A Racial-ethnic Socialization Intervention for Diverse Families
This study is a randomized effectiveness trial that tests the online delivery of a video-based intervention (One Talk at a Time (OTAAT)) relative to a control group over a one-year span.
- Conditions
- Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety Disorders and Symptoms, Behavioral Symptoms, Ethnic-Racial Socialization
- Trial name
- OTAAT (NCT05454293)
- Testing
- One Talk at a Time: Race, One Talk at a Time: General
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 312 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Atrial Fibrillation, Coronary Heart Disease
EMPOWER-1: A Multi-site Clinical Cohort Research Study to Reduce Health Inequality
Health inequality and genetic disparity are a significant issue in the United Kingdom (UK). This study focuses on diseases that are associated with significant morbidity and mortality in the UK, and specifically examines the…
- Conditions
- Atrial Fibrillation, Coronary Heart Disease, Cardiovascular Diseases, Heart Failure
- Trial name
- EMPOWER (NCT03987633)
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 200,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Future Genetics Limited
Critical Illness, Gender Equality
Ethnic and Gender Based Admittance Patterns in the ICU
The dominating proportion of patients in the ICU are men. Studies indicate that men receive more mechanical ventilation, vasoactive drugs, renal replacement therapy, invasive monitoring and have longer length of stay in the ICU.
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Gender Equality, Discrimination, Sex, Discrimination, Racial
- Trial name
- EGAP-ICU (NCT05513456)
- Testing
- Randomization to a different factors in the case descriptions
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 5,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Karolinska Institutet
Healthy
Pharmacogenetics Study in Taiwan's Ethnic Groups
This main purpose of this study is to understand the difference and distribution of drug-metabolizing enzyme genetic polymorphisms among Taiwan ethnicities.
- Trial name
- NCT00459251
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 350 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mackay Memorial Hospital
Pain, Depression, Anxiety
International Study of Biofield Therapy
Participants from 14 different countries received a single session of biofield therapy (Okada Purifying Therapy) lasting 30 minutes or longer from the volunteer practitioners.
- Conditions
- Pain, Depression, Anxiety, Dizziness, Signs and Symptoms
- Trial name
- NCT03994809
- Testing
- Okada Purifying Therapy
- Volunteers
- 12,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- MOA Health Science Foundation
Quality of Health Care
Measuring Ethnic Disparities in Family Planning Services in Peru
This study is designed as a crossover randomized controlled trial, to investigate the effects of client's ethnic characteristics on the quality of family planning services.
- Trial name
- NCT01885858
- Testing
- Indigenous profile, Mestizo profile
- Volunteers
- 351 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Healthy, Heart Disease
Family Research Study: Metabolism of Fats and Proteins in Specific Ethnic Groups
The purpose of this study is to determine whether lipoprotein(a), also called Lp(a), is a risk factor for cardiovascular (heart) disease. Lipoproteins are tiny particles that circulate in the blood.
- Trial name
- NCT00853775
- Testing
- No intervention, observational study
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 325 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Davis
Pediatric ALL, Critical Illness
Singapore's Health Outcomes After Critical Illness in Kids
What is the problem? Every year about 2.5 million children are affected by critical illness and require admission to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
- Conditions
- Pediatric ALL, Critical Illness, Post Intensive Care Unit Syndrome
- Trial name
- SHACK (NCT04637113)
- Testing
- This is a non-interventional study
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- KK Women's and Children's Hospital