Clinical trials: Death Anxiety
Terminal Illness, End-of-Life Care
Non-Invasive Detection and Preservation of Neurocognitive Signals in the Peri-Death Period Using Brain-Computer Interface and Artificial Intelligence
Background: Recent electroencephalography (EEG) data indicate that the transition from clinical death to cellular death is marked by highly organized neurophysiological events, including significant surges in gamma-band power…
- Conditions
- Terminal Illness, End-of-Life Care, Death, Brain Death
- Trial name
- NeuroCogPresv (NCT07477028)
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Noah Tech, Corp.
End-of-life, Depression, Anxiety
Improve Mental Health and Emotional Labor Among Nurses Who Care the End-of-life Patients
CBT: cognitive behavioural therapy MBT: mindfulness-based therapy
- Trial name
- NCT05541523
- Testing
- cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness-based therapy
- Where
- 2 sites in China
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Huichao Zhang
Cardiovascular Death; Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events
2019-nCoV Outbreak and Cardiovascular Diseases
Cardiovascular events occurring after 2019-nCoV outbreak in Jinan were prospectively assessed by emergency physicians. We compared those events with events that occurred during the past 3 months and the same months of the last…
- Trial name
- NCT04255940
- Where
- 12 sites in China
- Volunteers
- 12,000 people
- Sponsor
- Qilu Hospital of Shandong University
Critical Illness, Chronic Disease
Improving Communication About Serious Illness
The purpose of this study is to improve care delivered to patients with serious illness by enhancing communication among patients, families, and clinicians in the outpatient setting.
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Chronic Disease, Terminal Care, Palliative Care
- Trial name
- ICSI (NCT01933789)
- Testing
- Communication Feedback Form for Patients with Serious Illness
- Where
- 6 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 817 people
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Death Attitude (Implicit/Explicit), Death Anxiety
Die-logue Program for Community Dwelling Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate whether the Die-logue program can improve attitudes toward death, coping with death, and readiness for advance care planning (ACP) among community-dwelling middle-aged adults aged…
- Conditions
- Death Attitude (Implicit/Explicit), Death Anxiety, End of Life Care, Advanced Care Planning (ACP)
- Trial name
- NCT07525492
- Testing
- Death Conversation, Online ACP Education
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 148 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National University of Singapore
Anxiety, Depression
Improving Patient and Family Centered Care in Advanced Critical Illness
One in five deaths in the U.S. occurs in or shortly after discharge from an intensive care unit (ICU), typically following decisions made by surrogate decision makers to forego life prolonging treatment.
- Trial name
- PARTNER (NCT01844492)
- Testing
- The PARTNER Intervention, ICU Usual Care Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,420 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
Colorectal Neoplasms
Acupuncture to Reduce Symptoms of Advanced Colorectal Cancer
This study investigates the effect of acupuncture in reducing symptom distress in adults with advanced colon cancer.
- Trial name
- NCT00034034
- Testing
- Acupuncture
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 105 people
- Sponsor
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Neoplasms Malignant, Carcinoma
Existential Distress in Patients with Advanced Cancer and Their Caregivers
Despite the potential for alleviation of existential distress through psychosocial interventions, existential concerns and their impact on health care outcomes of patients and caregivers have not yet been systematically studied.
- Conditions
- Neoplasms Malignant, Carcinoma, Palliative Care
- Trial name
- NCT04600206
- Testing
- Self-report questionnaires
- Where
- 5 sites in Germany
- Volunteers
- 800 people
- Sponsor
- Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Death Anxiety, Death Attitude (Implicit/Explicit)
Platform for End-of-life Awareness, Conversations, and Education (PEACE) Among Registered Nurses
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate whether the PEACE program can improve early career registered nurses' registered nurses' attitudes towards caring for palliative patients, ability to cope with patients' death, and…
- Conditions
- Death Anxiety, Death Attitude (Implicit/Explicit), End of Life Care, Advanced Care Planning (ACP)
- Trial name
- NCT07774468
- Testing
- Death Conversation, Online ACP Education
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National University of Singapore
Cancer, Coping Skills
Mindfully Optimizing Delivery of End-of-Life Care
The study evaluates the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a mindfulness meditation-based intervention designed to provide a synergistic solution to the avoidant coping that often inhibits advance care…
- Trial name
- MODEL Care (NCT02367508)
- Testing
- MODEL Care
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- Indiana University
Stillbirth, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Feasibility of Online Yoga With Facebook After Stillbirth
The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness on PTSD symptoms of the addition of a Facebook group to an online yoga intervention for women following a stillbirth.
- Conditions
- Stillbirth, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety, Depression
- Trial name
- NCT04077476
- Testing
- Online Yoga + Facebook, Online Yoga
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Arizona State University
Palliative Care, Pain
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) in Palliative Care
Background: Terminally ill patients often experience significant psychosocial distress having depressed mood, death anxiety, pain, and an overall poor quality of life.
- Conditions
- Palliative Care, Pain, Anxiety, Depression
- Trial name
- LPC (NCT05883540)
- Testing
- Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Tartrate
- Where
- 4 sites in Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Chronic Kidney Disease, Chronic Renal Failure
Exploring the Impact of " ACP Board Game for Life" on Death Preparation and Anxiety in Patients With Stage 4 and 5 Chronic Kidney Diseases: A Pilot Study
This study was to explore the impacts of participating in "ACP board game for life" on death preparation, death anxiety, end-of-life care preferences, and intervention perception in stage 4-5 CKD patients with advanced chronic…
- Conditions
- Chronic Kidney Disease, Chronic Renal Failure, Chronic Renal Insufficiency, End of Life Care
- Trial name
- NCT06046261
- Testing
- ACP board game for life
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 69 people
- Sponsor
- National Cheng-Kung University Hospital
Anxiety, Depression
Quality of Dying in the Intensive Care Unit: Validation of the CAESAR Scale
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the quality of the dying process in french ICUs (assessed by the CAESAR scale) and to compare physicians', nurses' and relatives perceptions and experiences, with a one-year follow-up of…
- Conditions
- Anxiety, Depression, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Trial name
- CAESAR (NCT01549197)
- Where
- 47 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 475 people
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
COVID-19 Pandemic, Simulation of Physical Illness
COVID-19 Simulation Education on Nursing Students
This study aims to determine the effect of simulation education as an approach to patients with COVID-19 on nursing students' perception and fear of the COVID-19 disease.
- Trial name
- NCT05576636
- Testing
- Simulation training, Control Group
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 86 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mehmet Akif Ersoy University
Depressive Symptoms, Perinatal Loss
e-Perinatal Butterfly: An Embedded Study for Parents Experiencing Perinatal Loss
This study is part of the e-Perinatal project and is embedded within the parent e-Perinatal cluster randomized controlled trial (NCT07613008). No additional randomization is performed for this embedded study.
- Conditions
- Depressive Symptoms, Perinatal Loss, Perinatal Grief, Anxiety Symptoms
- Trial name
- e-Butterfly (NCT07898176)
- Testing
- e-Perinatal Butterfly, Standard routine maternal care
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Seville
Pranayama, Exercise
The Effect of Pranayama Exercise
Objective: This randomized controlled experimental study aimed to investigate the effects of pranayama exercises on vital signs, anxiety, fear of death, and sleep quality in patients who have experienced an acute myocardial…
- Conditions
- Pranayama, Exercise, Anxiety, Death
- Trial name
- Pranayama (NCT06822244)
- Testing
- Pranayama exercise, normal breathing
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Istanbul Medeniyet University
Death Anxiety
The Effectiveness of an Online Self-Delivered Death Anxiety Intervention
The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the effectiveness of the online self-delivered death anxiety intervention developed by our team in the general population with a randomized controlled trial.
- Trial name
- NCT06801132
- Testing
- Online self-delivered death anxiety intervention, Waiting-List (WL) condition
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 47 people
- Sponsor
- Peking University
Urological Cancer
Impact of Mortality Salience on Treatment Decisions
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if mortality salience has an impact on treatment decisions in urologists and patients with urological cancer.
- Trial name
- MOST-D (NCT06545188)
- Testing
- Mortality Attitudes Personality Survey, Dental treatment questions (control condition)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 746 people
- Sponsor
- Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf
Art Therapy, Mandala Coloring
The Effect of Art-based Mandala Intervention
Objective This study aimed to investigate the effect of art-based mandala intervention on anger and death anxiety in older adults residing in a nursing home.
- Conditions
- Art Therapy, Mandala Coloring, Anger, Death Anxiety
- Trial name
- mandala (NCT07496268)
- Testing
- Mnadala coloring, Control
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Istanbul Medeniyet University