Clinical trials: Serious Illness
Gastrointestinal Cancer, Colorectal Cancer
Assessment of a Serious Illness Conversation Guide (SICG) in Advanced Gastro-Intestinal Cancers
The purpose of the study is to determine whether standardized implementation of a scripted template for discussing important issues that arise near the end of life improves the care of those who have advanced cancer.
- Conditions
- Gastrointestinal Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, Gastric Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT04077372
- Testing
- Serious Illness Conversation Guide (SICG), Quality of Life (QOL) survey
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Palliative Care
Study to Improve Care for Veterans During Serious Illness
Improving end-of-life care is of critical importance to the VA as it faces an increasingly aging and dying veteran population. Previous work within and outside of the VA has demonstrated serious deficiencies in the quality of…
- Trial name
- NCT00106041
- Testing
- Veterans Integrated Palliative Care Nurse Case Manager
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Febrile Illness Acute, Meningitis, Bacterial
Febrile Infants Swedish Study
Approximately one million febrile infants aged ≤60 days present annually to pediatric emergency departments (PEDs) in Europe and the United States.
- Conditions
- Febrile Illness Acute, Meningitis, Bacterial, Urinary Tract Infection (Diagnosis), Invasive Bacterial Infection
- Trial name
- FISS (NCT07134751)
- Where
- 11 sites in Sweden
- Volunteers
- 2,000 people
- Sponsor
- Region Skane
Mental Disorders, Severe
Measuring Development of Brain Responses to Vocal Sounds in Babies of Mums With Mental Illness
CAPRI-Voc examines the differences in how speech and environmental sounds are processed in the infant brain as they grow from 9 to 12 months.
- Trial name
- CAPRI-Voc (NCT04350294)
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 250 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Manchester
Repetitive Negative Thinking, Neurofeedback
Effect of Mindfulness-based Neurofeedback for Adolescents With Elevated Repetitive Negative Thinking
This study will test the hypotheses that adolescent with repetitive negative thinking who at at-risk for serious mental illness will show greater default mode network (DMN) connectivity than healthy controls, at-risk adolescents…
- Trial name
- CHARMS (NCT07055217)
- Testing
- Mindfulness Training, Mindfulness-based Neurofeedback (Real mbNF)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Serious Mental Illness, Tobacco Use Disorder
Facilitation to Increase Tobacco Treatment
Smoking disproportionally impacts Veterans, and VA spends $2.7 billion annually on smoking-related health conditions. Veterans with serious mental illness (SMI) smoke tobacco products at triple the rate of Veterans without any…
- Trial name
- FITT (NCT07455526)
- Testing
- Multi-component facilitation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 65 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Repetitive Negative Thinking, Serious Mental Illness Symptoms
Mindfulness-based Neurofeedback to Reduce Negative Thinking in CHARMS Adolescents
The study will test the hypothesis that mindfulness-based neurofeedback (mbNF) will improve repetitive negative thinking and social and role functioning over sham neurofeedback in adolescents at risk for serious mental illness.
- Trial name
- CHARMS (NCT06901232)
- Testing
- Mindfulness Training, Active mindfulness-based neurofeedback (Active mbNF)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 90 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Persons With Psychiatric Disorders
Perinatal Peer Support for Veterans With Serious Mental Illness
Veterans with serious mental illness (SMI) are at high risk of exacerbation of mental illness in pregnancy and postpartum, with consequences including poor pregnancy outcomes, decreased functioning, and impaired child…
- Trial name
- NCT07362576
- Testing
- Perinatal peer support
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Palliative Care
Contextualizing Care for Patients With a Serious Illness
When people become seriously ill, healthcare decisions are influenced not only by their medical condition, but also by their personal situation, values, wishes, and daily life circumstances.
- Trial name
- SVPII-TRAIN (NCT07764263)
- Testing
- Contextualized Care Communication Training
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 81 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Radboud University Medical Center
Anxiety Disorders, Psychotic Disorders
Development of a Transdiagnostic Intervention for Adolescents at Risk for Serious Mental Illness
This research study aims to develop a brief group-based treatment called Resilience Training for Teens, then to test how well it protects high school students with mild symptoms of depression, anxiety, or having unusual feelings…
- Conditions
- Anxiety Disorders, Psychotic Disorders, Depressive Disorder, Psychosocial Functioning
- Trial name
- NCT05962879
- Testing
- Resilience Training for Teens
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 70 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Depression, Psychosis
Cognitive Remediation in Youth at Risk of Serious Mental Illness
The primary aim of the project is to test the effectiveness of a cognitive remediation treatment (CRT) program, My Brain Solutions (MBS), in addition to motivational interviewing (MI) in improving cognition and functional outcome…
- Conditions
- Depression, Psychosis, Anxiety, Mental Illness
- Trial name
- NCT02582528
- Testing
- Cognitive remediation treatment, Motivational Interviewing
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- University of Calgary
End of Life, Pain
Virtual Reality at End-of-life
The purpose of this research is to determine the effect that repeated, personalized virtual reality experiences have on symptom severity, comparing self-reported symptom severity both pre and post each session, and overtime…
- Conditions
- End of Life, Pain, Nausea, Fatigue
- Trial name
- NCT06149429
- Testing
- Personalized virtual reality experience
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 9 people
- Sponsor
- State University of New York at Buffalo
Fever, Triage
Triage Performance and Physiological Predictors of Serious Illness in Febrile Children in the Pediatric Emergency Department
This multicenter prospective observational cohort study evaluates how well the initial triage category assigned by the Turkish Ministry of Health three-level color-coded triage system (Red-Yellow-Green) predicts serious clinical…
- Conditions
- Fever, Triage, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Serious Bacterial Infection
- Trial name
- PEDTRIAGE (NCT07739004)
- Testing
- Ministry of Health three-level color-coded triage
- Where
- 10 sites in Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 3,000 people
- Sponsor
- TC Erciyes University
Type 1 Diabetes, Asthma
EmoTIChealth: Promoting Adolescent Health Through a Serious Game.
The intervention program targets adolescents between 12 and 16 years of age. The intervention program is designed for adolescents during a critical developmental stage marked by significant life transitions, where building strong…
- Conditions
- Type 1 Diabetes, Asthma, Allergic Rhinitis, Food Allergy
- Trial name
- NCT07212530
- Testing
- EmoTIChealth
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Valencia
Family Members of: Newborns Extremely Premature, Family Members of: New Pediatric Oncology Patients
Impact of Serious Pediatric Illness on Parent and Sibling Health
To estimate the impact of having a child with serious illness (SI) on the health and healthcare of other members of the child's family.
- Conditions
- Family Members of: Newborns Extremely Premature, Family Members of: New Pediatric Oncology Patients, Family Members of: Critical Congenital Heart Defect Patients, Family Members of: Children Severe Neurological Impairment
- Trial name
- NCT03971344
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 161,000 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Mental Health
Mental Health Care Coordination for Transition Aged Youth
This study seeks to quantify the impact of recommended mental health care coordination practices on patient experiences of care, (i.e.
- Trial name
- NCT03336892
- Testing
- Mental Health Care Coordination
- Volunteers
- 220 people
- Sponsor
- Children's National Research Institute
Sepsis, Bacterial Infections
Therapeutic Zinc in Infant Bacterial Illness
Infections are the important cause of high mortality in young infants in developing countries. Zinc is a crucial micronutrient as it influences various immune mechanisms and modulates host resistance to several pathogens.
- Conditions
- Sepsis, Bacterial Infections, Pneumonia
- Trial name
- NCT00347386
- Testing
- Drug: Zinc (zinc sulphate)
- Where
- 3 sites in India
- Volunteers
- 700 people
- Sponsor
- Centre For International Health
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Schizophrenia
Metformin in Co-morbid Diabetes or Prediabetes and Serious Mental Illness
Schizophrenia is associated with a lifespan shortened by 20 years, due to cardiovascular disease (CVD), with antipsychotic (AP) medications understood to contribute to this risk through associated metabolic side-effects.
- Trial name
- NCT02167620
- Testing
- Metformin
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 35 people
- Sponsor
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Depression, Stress Disorders, Post-traumatic
Cornerstone Program for Transition-Age Youth Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
The purpose of this study is exploring a theoretically guided intervention, Cornerstone, which provides system 'boundary-spanning' services, including therapeutic services and mentorship, to transition-age youth with mental…
- Conditions
- Depression, Stress Disorders, Post-traumatic, Bipolar Disorder
- Trial name
- NCT02696109
- Testing
- Treatment As Usual, Cornerstone
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 59 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- New York University
Pediatric Cancer
Medically Tailored Meals for Kids
The purpose of this project is to learn whether an intervention that provides households with home-delivered healthy, frozen meals tailored to illness related conditions for 12 weeks during a child's treatment for serious illness…
- Trial name
- MTM-Kids (NCT06814795)
- Testing
- Medically tailored meals
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center