Clinical trials: Sleeping Sickness
Human African Trypanosomiasis
Assessment of Recombinant HAT-RDT Specificity
Human African trypanosomiasis HAT, or sleeping sickness, is a tropical disease caused mainly by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (gHAT).
- Trial name
- NCT05637632
- Where
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Volunteers
- 1,504 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
High Altitude Pulmonary Hypertension, Sleep Apnea
Sleep Related Breathing Disturbances and High Altitude Pulmonary Hypertension in Kyrgyz Highlanders
High altitude pulmonary hypertension, a form of altitude illness that occurs in long-term residents at altitudes >2500 m, is characterized by dyspnea, hypoxemia, impaired exercise performance and hypertension in the pulmonary…
- Trial name
- NCT01621061
- Where
- Kyrgyzstan
- Volunteers
- 125 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Zurich
Sick Leave, Insomnia
Health Promoting Work Schedules: The Effect of Abolishing Quick Returns
Introduction In shift work, quick returns refer to transitions between two shifts with less than 11 hours available rest time. Twenty-three per cent of employees in European countries reported having quick returns.
- Conditions
- Sick Leave, Insomnia, Shift-Work Sleep Disorder, Psychological Distress
- Trial name
- HeWoS (NCT04693182)
- Testing
- Shift schedule without quick returns
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 2,700 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health
High Altitude Pulmonary Hypertension, Sleep Apnea
Time Course and Prognostic Significance of Pulmonary Artery Pressure in Highlanders.
The purpose of the current study is to evaluate the clinical and physiologic course of Kyrgyz highlanders with high altitude pulmonary hypertension (HAPH) by performing a longitudinal cohort study.
- Trial name
- NCT03165019
- Where
- Kyrgyzstan
- Volunteers
- 165 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Zurich
Human African Trypanosomiasis, Sleeping Sickness
Diagnostic Tools for Human African Trypanosomiasis Elimination and Clinical Trials: WP3 Post Elimination Monitoring
This study determines the feasibility, diagnostic performance and cost for monitoring of eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) foci using diagnostic algorithms of serological and molecular high throughput tests with and…
- Conditions
- Human African Trypanosomiasis, Sleeping Sickness, Trypanosoma Brucei Gambiense; Infection, West African Sleeping Sickness
- Trial name
- DiTECT-HAT-WP3 (NCT04099628)
- Testing
- Rapid diagnostic test (RDT); Serological and molecular tests on DBS
- Where
- 3 sites in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 13,747 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
Human African Trypanosomiasis
Prospective Evaluation of an RDT to Screen for Gambiense HAT and Diagnose P. Falciparum Malaria
A prototype rapid diagnostic test (RDT) to simultaneously screen for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) and diagnose P. falciparum malaria (the "HAT/malaria combo") has recently been developed.
- Trial name
- NCT03394976
- Testing
- No intervention
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Switzerland
Human African Trypanosomiasis, Sleeping Sickness
Prospective Evaluation of the Specificity of Serological Tests for Human African Trypanosomiasis
This study evaluates and compares the diagnostic specificity of 5 serological field tests for screening of the population at risk for human African trypanosomiasis due to Trypanosoma brucei gambiense.
- Conditions
- Human African Trypanosomiasis, Sleeping Sickness, Trypanosoma Brucei Gambiense; Infection, West African Sleeping Sickness
- Trial name
- SpeSerTryp (NCT05466630)
- Testing
- Serological field test for HAT, malaria rapid test, Immunologic laboratory tests
- Where
- 2 sites in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea
- Volunteers
- 1,095 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior
Increasing Children's Physical Activity by Policy (CAP)
Levels of physical activity (PA) and physical fitness in children are low and declining, both globally and in Sweden. Preschools are important settings with the potential to influence the majority (>93%) of Swedish children's PA…
- Trial name
- NCT04569578
- Testing
- Policy
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 4,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Karolinska Institutet
Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit, Sleep Quality in Adult ICU Patients
Virtual Reality to Reduce Anxiety, Agitation and Delirium in Critically Ill Patients
This is a pilot feasibility study examining the use of immersive virtual reality (VR) in adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
- Conditions
- Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit, Sleep Quality in Adult ICU Patients, Agitation Associated With Critical Illness, Anxiety Acute
- Trial name
- NCT07649876
- Testing
- Virtual reality (VR) therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Sleep Disturbance, Fatigue
Treating Disrupted Sleep in Individuals With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
The purpose of this study is to determine if either a targeted type of talk therapy (Phase I) or medication, Wellbutrin, (Phase II) improve sleep disturbance and/or fatigue in individuals with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
- Conditions
- Sleep Disturbance, Fatigue, Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Trial name
- NCT02162862
- Testing
- Behavioral Counseling, bupropion-SR
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 99 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Eva Szigethy