Clinical trials: Autopsy
Suicide, Fatal Suicide
Case Control Psychological Autopsy of Suicide
Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, and identifying risk factors has been considered as the key initiative of suicide prevention.
- Conditions
- Suicide, Fatal Suicide, Non Fatal Suicidal Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT05097690
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tamkeen Saleem
Suicide, Mental Disorders
Contribution of Psychological Autopsy to the Understanding of Suicidal Behaviors in French Overseas Territories
The mains objectives of our project are to coordinate the monitoring of suicides and to identify common or specific suicide risk factors in four overseas DROM-COM (French Polynesia, La Reunion, French Guiana and Martinique) by…
- Conditions
- Suicide, Mental Disorders, Prognostic Factors
- Trial name
- AUTOPSOM (NCT05773898)
- Testing
- other
- Where
- Martinique
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Center of Martinique
Stimulant Overdose, Overdose Accidental
Leveraging Psychological Autopsies to Accelerate Research Into Stimulant Overdose Mortality
In the LASSO study, the investigators will identify 100 stimulant overdose decedents (divided among stimulant-only, and stimulant with fentanyl), conduct informant interviews (including scales and qualitative data), and gather…
- Conditions
- Stimulant Overdose, Overdose Accidental, Overdose Cocaine, Overdose Methamphetamine
- Trial name
- LASSO (NCT06076564)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 176 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- San Francisco Department of Public Health
Cause of Mortality, Cause of Neonatal Death
Defining Causes of Deaths in South and Southeast Asia
Brief Summary: Mortality data are important in low and middle-income countries to assess the population health status and trends.
- Conditions
- Cause of Mortality, Cause of Neonatal Death, Cause of Child Death, Cause of Maternal Death
- Trial name
- SEACTN-VA (NCT04595656)
- Testing
- verbal autopsy interview
- Where
- 5 sites in Bangladesh, Burma and 3 more
- Volunteers
- 3,413 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford
Multiple Sclerosis
Pathological Basis of MRI Signal Changes in Multiple Sclerosis
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease that damages the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). This leads to increased physical disability over time. The disease is lifelong once it begins.
- Trial name
- NCT02659956
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 250 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Perinatal Death, Neonatal Death
Verbal Autopsy of Maternal Deaths, Stillbirths, and Neonatal Deaths in BetterBirth
The purpose of this study is to conduct Verbal Autopsies of deaths ( stillbirths and neonatal deaths together) identified in the BetterBirth trial to identify their potential causes, timing, and social determinants.
- Conditions
- Perinatal Death, Neonatal Death, Stillbirth
- Trial name
- NCT03213509
- Testing
- Interview (Social and Verbal Autopsy)
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 170 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Fatal Outcome
Physician Versus Computer Coding of Verbal Autopsies
The objective of this study is to compare the performance of computer-coded verbal autopsies (CCVA) to physician-coded verbal autopsies (PCVA) at the population level.
- Trial name
- NCT02810366
- Testing
- Physician versus Computer Coded Verbal Autopsy
- Where
- 3 sites in India
- Volunteers
- 12,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre for Global Health Research, Toronto
Childhood Mortality
Mortality Reduction After Oral Azithromycin: Morbidity Study
The long-term goal of this study is to more precisely define the role of mass azithromycin treatments as an intervention for reducing childhood morbidity and increasing growth, and for the potential selection of antibiotic…
- Trial name
- MORDORMorb (NCT02048007)
- Testing
- Azithromycin
- Where
- 6 sites in United States, Malawi and 3 more
- Volunteers
- 72,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Postmortem Care
The Effect of Simulation-Based Postmortem Care on Nursing Students' Knowledge, Skills, and Self-Efficacy Levels
PURPOSE AND TYPE OF THE RESEARCH This study is designed as a randomized controlled experimental study to investigate the impact of simulation-based learning experiences in the teaching of postmortem care on the knowledge, skills…
- Trial name
- NCT07125456
- Testing
- Postmortem Care Teaching Simulation
- Volunteers
- 68 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa
Suicide
Suicide in People Aged 45-60: A Case-control Psychological Autopsy Study
The purpose of this study is to learn about the possible causes of the negative trend in suicide rates in both males and females aged 45-60 in Flanders, Belgium. This will be carried out using a psychological autopsy study.
- Trial name
- NCT03703128
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 97 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Ghent
Perinatal Mortality, Cause of Neonatal Death
Verbal Autopsy to Assess Early Neonatal Death and Stillbirth
The NICHD Global Network (GN) for Women's and Children's Health Research, a multi-site, international research network, provides a unique infrastructure to implement an expanded perinatal verbal autopsy study using the FIRST…
- Conditions
- Perinatal Mortality, Cause of Neonatal Death, Cause of Stilbirth
- Trial name
- VA (NCT00640055)
- Testing
- Coordinator, Physician-assigned cause of death
- Where
- 4 sites in Guatemala, Pakistan and 2 more
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NICHD Global Network for Women's and Children's Health
Alzheimer's Disease
Evaluate the Concordance Between PET Imaging of [18F]-APN-1607 Injection and Postmortem Brain Tissue Tau Pathology in Individuals With HV and MCI or AD.
1. To evaluate the diagnostic performance of [18F]-APN-1607 injection PET imaging in detecting uptake patterns consistent with AD neuropathological changes as defined by the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association…
- Trial name
- NCT07752784
- Testing
- [18F]-APN-1607
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- JYAMS PET Research & Development Limited
Major Depression
Duke Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Depression in Late Life
The proposed Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience of Depression will focus on understanding the neurobiological mechanism of depression. A total of 5 projects are proposed. The center is focused on a single hypothesis.
- Trial name
- NCT00576875
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 795 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Childhood Mortality
Mortality Reduction After Oral Azithromycin: Mortality Study
Our long-term goal is to more precisely define the role of mass azithromycin treatments as an intervention for reducing childhood mortality.
- Trial name
- MORDORIMort (NCT02047981)
- Testing
- Azithromycin
- Where
- 6 sites in United States, Malawi and 3 more
- Volunteers
- 190,238 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Schizophrenia
Treatment Response in Schizophrenia: Bridging Imaging and Postmortem Studies
The overarching goal is to identify imaging markers that will predict treatment response, and to confirm or validate these biomarkers using anatomical studies of postmortem tissue.
- Trial name
- NCT00937716
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 75 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Schizophrenia Disorder, Frontotemporal Dementia, Behavioral Variant
Understanding Mechanisms of Synaptic Degeneration Underlying Clinical Symptoms in Patients With MDs and NDs.
Clinical Study A. Retrospective Neuropathological Study of Synapse dysfunction. This is a cross-sectional study of patients retrospectively collected from existing postmortem collections and from existing collections of…
- Conditions
- Schizophrenia Disorder, Frontotemporal Dementia, Behavioral Variant, Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Bipolar Disorder (BD)
- Trial name
- NCT07234851
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Healthy
The Effect of Creative Drama on Postmortem Care in Nursing Students
The goal of this randomized controlled including pretest, posttest and persistence test study is to examine the effect of creative drama method on student nurses' knowledge and skill levels related to postmortem care, learning…
- Trial name
- NCT05661500
- Testing
- Creative Darama Group, Classical Education Group
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Abant Izzet Baysal University