Clinical trials: Capacity Building
Visceral Leishmaniasis
A Pilot Study for Capacity Building for a Multi-centre, Randomized Trial for Treatment of Kala Azar in Bangladesh
Kala azar (KA) or visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is endemic in several districts of Bangladesh with the highest incidence in Mymensingh, Pabna and Tangail districts.
- Trial name
- NCT01240473
- Testing
- Randomized trial for treatment of kala azar in Bangladesh
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
HIV Infections
Safety and Immunogenicity Study of a DNA Priming and MVA Boosting Strategy of HIV Vaccine
While antiretroviral drugs have shown great promise in reducing HIV replication and thus in reducing HIV/AIDS associated morbi-mortality and HIV transmission, the cost is substantial and side effects are a potentially limiting…
- Trial name
- NCT01407497
- Testing
- DNA HIVIS and MVA-CMDR, Saline solution
- Where
- Mozambique
- Volunteers
- 25 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Mozambique
Tobacco Smoking
Brief Behavioural Economic Intervention for Smoking Cessation
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effectiveness of brief behavioural economic intervention in promoting smoking cessation among smokers in the community.
- Trial name
- QTW2024 (NCT06451081)
- Testing
- Brief cessation advice, Opt-out active referral, Behavioral economic mobile messaging
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 1,017 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
Covid19
Western Kenya Integrated COVID-19 Response
To respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, investigators will be deploying community health workers, equipped with mobile technology, and accompanied by youth to visit households door to door to screen for symptoms of COVID-19…
- Trial name
- NCT04501458
- Testing
- Training of youth, community health assistants and community health workers., Training clinicians in basic critical care and the management of severe COVID-19 cases
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 200,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Surgical Systems Research Group
HIV/AIDS and Infections, Electronic Medical Records
Evaluation of Clinical Impacts and Costs of eHealth in Rwanda
This study will estimate the impact of a suite of clinical decision-support tools on structural, process, and clinical outcomes related to HIV care.
- Conditions
- HIV/AIDS and Infections, Electronic Medical Records, Clinical Decision Support System
- Trial name
- NCT04283929
- Testing
- Experimental: Intervention 1 (Int1), Experimental: Intervention 2 (Int2), Experimental: Intervention 3 (Int3)
- Where
- Rwanda
- Volunteers
- 112 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National University, Rwanda
Maternal Health, Neonatal Health
An Implementation Research of Simulation Based Mentorship Program
The goal of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation outcomes of the Simulation Based Mentorship Program (SBMP) which was implemented in four districts of Nepal.
- Trial name
- SBMP (NCT06414629)
- Testing
- Simulation Based Mentorship Program
- Where
- Nepal
- Volunteers
- 326 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- One Heart Worldwide
Family Navigator Plus, Civic Engagement Plus
Building Capacity for Youth Mental Wellness: Family Navigator Model for Foster Parents
The investigators have designed a 5-week Family Navigator Plus (FN+) educational program to support foster parents in better understanding their youth's mental health needs and in finding mental health services.
- Trial name
- FN+ (NCT07805395)
- Testing
- Family Navigation, Civic Engagement Plus
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
Tuberculosis
Impact of Vitamin D Supplementation on Host Immunity to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Response to Treatment
Tuberculosis bacterium (TB) is a germ that can infect any part of the human body, especially the lungs. Vitamin D is a hormone present in humans that regulates blood electrolytes such as calcium and phosphate.
- Trial name
- NCT00918086
- Testing
- Vitamin D pill
- Where
- Georgia
- Volunteers
- 199 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Emory University
HIV, PrEP
Pharmacy-based Provision of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Tanzania
Implementation study comparing standard pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) services to four models of pharmacy-based PrEP access for young women aged 18-24 (YW) in Tanzania.
- Trial name
- MWOTAJI (NCT07687888)
- Testing
- Pharmacy-based PrEP services, Distribution of HIV self-test kits
- Where
- Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 2,818 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mzumbe University - Centre of Excellence in Health Monitoring and Evaluation
Education, Nursing
Health Coaching With Hospitalised Chronic Heart Failure Patients
Background: Nurses, the usual leaders in the follow-up of chronic cardiac patients, need to improve their training so that they are in the best position to empower these patients.
- Trial name
- NCT05300880
- Testing
- Training program
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 19 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Package of Resources for Assisted Contact Tracing: Implementation, Costs, and Effectiveness
Having health workers assist HIV-infected persons with the recruitment and testing of their sexual contacts and biological children is an effective and efficient way of identifying additional HIV-infected persons in need of HIV…
- Trial name
- PRACTICE (NCT05343390)
- Testing
- Enhanced implementation package, Standard implementation package
- Where
- 33 sites in Malawi
- Volunteers
- 841 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hysterectomy (MeSH nr: E04.950.300.399)
Transforming Global Surgery Capacity and Capability Through Affordable Virtual Reality
The goal of this randomized controlled trial was to evaluate whether Deliberate Virtual Reality (VR) training can improve surgical skills, knowledge, and confidence in performing postpartum hysterectomy among junior-level Zambian…
- Trial name
- NCT07403526
- Testing
- Deliberate Virtual Reality (VR) Training, Standard Clinical Training
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 33 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Southern Methodist University
Capacity Building, Support for Midlevel Health Professionals
Integrated Infectious Disease Capacity-Building Evaluation
This evaluation aim is to investigate a cost-effective way to build capacity for the care and prevention of infectious diseases among mid-level practitioners (MLP) in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Conditions
- Capacity Building, Support for Midlevel Health Professionals, Diagnostic Training
- Trial name
- IDCAP (NCT01190540)
- Testing
- Training and supervision, Integrated Management of Infectious Disease (IMID)
- Where
- Uganda
- Volunteers
- 72 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Other
Education & Mentorship of Advanced Practice Providers to Increase Community-based Research Within the NCORP Network, COACH-APP Trial
This clinical trial evaluates whether a mentorship and education intervention called COACH-APP works to improve advanced practice providers' (APPs) confidence in their ability to participate in clinical research (research…
- Trial name
- COACH-APP (NCT06904391)
- Testing
- Educational Intervention, Behavioral Intervention, Survey Administration
- Where
- 44 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 97 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Intervention
Family Navigator Plus for Foster Parents
The investigators have designed a 5-week Family Navigator Plus (FN+) educational program to support foster parents in better understanding their youth's mental health needs and in finding mental health services.
- Trial name
- FN+ (NCT06978959)
- Testing
- FN+ Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
Malnutrition, Anemia
Building Capacity for Sustainable Livelihoods and Health
Despite recent economic growth in Ghana, the prevalence of childhood malnutrition remains high. Wasting prevalence affected 29% among 6- to 8-months-old infants in 2008.
- Trial name
- NCT01985243
- Testing
- Nutrition and agriculture, Iron-rich food & business literacy
- Where
- 3 sites in Canada, Ghana
- Volunteers
- 3,390 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- McGill University
Child Maltreatment, Parenting
Building Community Health Volunteers' Capacity to Support Parents With Young Children With SafeCare Kenya
The goal of this clinical trial is to implement and examine the impact of SafeCare Kenya, an adapted parenting program, to improve parents' skills and knowledge related to the care of their children between the ages of 18 months…
- Trial name
- NCT06363695
- Testing
- SafeCare Kenya, Care as Usual by Community Health Volunteers
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 369 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pacific University
Depression, Anxiety
Building Community Capacity for Disability Prevention for Minority Elders (Positive Minds - Strong Bodies)
The primary intervention offered through this study is a manualized and culturally adapted CBT intervention combined with an exercise intervention, administered by trained Community Health Workers and exercise trainers to ethnic…
- Conditions
- Depression, Anxiety, Physical Disability
- Trial name
- NCT02317432
- Testing
- Comparison of a combined CBT + exercise intervention and enhanced usual care
- Where
- 8 sites in United States, Puerto Rico
- Volunteers
- 307 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Human NiV Infection
Community Intervention to Prevent Nipah Spillover
Several human Nipah virus (NiV) outbreaks have occurred in Bangladesh since 2001with 71% case fatality. Outbreak investigations have repeatedly identified drinking fresh date palm sap as a risk factor for NiV transmission.
- Trial name
- NCT01811784
- Testing
- Ask people not to drink raw sap, Ask people not to drink sap or drink sap from skirt protected trees, No Intervention
- Where
- 4 sites in Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 7,782 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Tobacco Use Cessation
Gender-Relevant Tobacco Cessation Among Women in Brazil
The overall goal of this renewal is three-fold: (1) to continue to sustain and strengthen the network; (2) to conduct a group randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of a theory-based, culturally- and gender-relevant…
- Trial name
- NCT03845413
- Testing
- Control, 12-home visits by the Community Health Worker + referring to an appointment for the participant to attend the tobacco cessation program
- Volunteers
- 338 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham