Clinical trials: Dignity
Palliative Care, Family
Dignity Talk: Helping Palliative Care Patients and Families Have Important Conversations
Dying patients and their families face many challenges near the end-of-life. Not only do patients often experience physical distress, but they also have feelings of loss of dignity, isolation, and uncertainty.
- Conditions
- Palliative Care, Family, End of Life Care
- Trial name
- DTalk (NCT01883375)
- Testing
- Dignity Talk, The Dignity Talk Communication Topics
- Where
- 13 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Manitoba
Dignity, Old Age; Debility
INNOVATEDIGNITY: Co-designing Digital Health Technologies With Older People in Homecare Settings.
One of the crucial components of successful ageing is to live independently in old age. Yet in UK alone, nearly 300000 older people require assistance with 3 or more essential daily tasks like eating, bathing and mobility which…
- Conditions
- Dignity, Old Age; Debility, Healthy Aging, Digital Technology
- Trial name
- NCT04884711
- Testing
- No Interventions. Participants will be using their everyday digital health technologies., In depth Interviews, Focus Group Discussions
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Brighton
Elderly, Psychological Adaptation
Are Older Adults Prepared to Respond to Disasters? Psychological First Aid on Dignity-Related Distress, Social Frailty, and Psychological Resilience
The rapid increase in the global aging population has drawn attention to the unique challenges faced by institutionalized elders.
- Conditions
- Elderly, Psychological Adaptation, First Aid, Stress
- Trial name
- NCT06787703
- Testing
- Psychological First Aid Intervention
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Cairo University
Advanced Cancer
Virtual Dignity Therapy for Palliative Care Patients With Advanced Cancer
The purpose of this study is to determine if it is feasible and acceptable to recruit for and deliver the Virtual Dignity Therapy intervention to palliative care patients with advanced cancer.
- Trial name
- NCT05113199
- Testing
- Virtual Dignity Therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 21 people
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
Addiction, Psychiatric Disorder
Validating Promoted Spiritual Experience
This pilot study of 16 patients will demonstrate a specific psychologically focused intervention to affect a spiritual aspect of psychological health and will measure (1) its effects on general distress, depression, anxiety and…
- Trial name
- NCT05485181
- Testing
- Spiritual Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Improved Emotional Regulation, Improvement in Quality of Life
The Role of Music in Palliative Care: A Proposal for a Rural Based Initiative in Music Based Interventions
Current practice in larger palliative care centers offer many supportive service modalities, which are often unavailable in the rural setting.
- Conditions
- Improved Emotional Regulation, Improvement in Quality of Life, Symptom Relief, Preservation of Dignity
- Trial name
- NCT02661880
- Testing
- preferred music
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Nova Scotia Health Authority
Pancreatic Cancer, Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Dignity Therapy/Life Plan in Patients With Pancreatic or Advanced Lung Cancer
This study will evaluate feasibility and acceptability of providing the Dignity Therapy/Life Plan intervention to pancreatic or advanced lung cancer patients presenting for treatment in the outpatient medical oncology setting.
- Trial name
- NCT02132325
- Testing
- Dignity Therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 19 people
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
Dignity, Advanced Cancer
Feasibility of Dignity Therapy Intervention on Cancer Patients in Charge to an Hospital Palliative Care Unit.
Aim of the study was to asses feasibility and acceptability of a nurse delivered Dignity Therapy (DT) intervention on advanced cancer patients referring to an Hospital palliative care unit.
- Trial name
- NCT04738305
- Testing
- Dignity Therapy
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Azienda USL Reggio Emilia - IRCCS
Healthy Volunteers, Aging, Healthy
Intervention Program for Psychological Well-Being in Institutionalized Older Adults Through Virtual Reality
This randomized controlled trial (N = 60) evaluates the acceptability and efficacy of an immersive virtual reality (IVR) intervention designed to enhance psychological well-being in older adults without cognitive impairment…
- Trial name
- RRCE (NCT07884435)
- Testing
- Active IVR Group, Passive IVR Goup
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Francisco Antonio Nieto Escámez
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Durable Effect of Imeglimin on the Glycemic Control in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Study subjects will be randomly assigned to the three groups and receive the study drug for maximum of 156 weeks and undergo blood samplings and other diabetes mellitus-related tests.
- Trial name
- NCT05366868
- Testing
- Imeglimin, Metformin, Vildagliptin
- Where
- Japan
- Volunteers
- 567 people
- Sponsor
- National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan
Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction
Digital Solutions in Heart Therapy (DIGNITY)
This study aims to assess the safety and effectiveness of telemedicine guided strategy on guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) optimization in hospitalized patients with heart failure in comparison to usual care in…
- Trial name
- DIGNITY - HF (NCT06942221)
- Testing
- usual care, guideline-directed medical therapy
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 140 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Dementia Frontal
Music and Physical Activity in Persons With Dementia
Fronto lobe dementia constitutes 10-20 % of dementia conditions within younger persons (>65). People with neuronal degeneration in frontal and temporal lobes demonstrate a decline in social conduct, apathy, loss of insight that…
- Trial name
- NCT03447444
- Testing
- music and physical activity
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 8 people
- Sponsor
- Oslo Metropolitan University
Psychological Well Being, Healthy Volunteers
REVI Pilot Feasibility Trial in Long-Term Care
This pilot study evaluates the feasibility, safety, and acceptability of an immersive virtual reality (VR) intervention designed to promote psychological well-being in older adults living in a long-term care facility.
- Conditions
- Psychological Well Being, Healthy Volunteers, Aging, Long-Term Care
- Trial name
- REVI (NCT07742137)
- Testing
- Active IVR, Passive IVR
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidad de Almeria
Elderly (People Aged 65 or More), Dignity
Dignity Therapy for Older Adults in Long-term Care Institutions
Due to the aging global population, an increasing number of elderly people are spending their remaining years in long-term care facilities.
- Trial name
- NCT07824401
- Testing
- dignity therapy, long term care
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 240 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
Anxiety, Orthopedic Disorder
Compare Patients' Perception of Surgical Experience Based on Garment
This study seeks to compare how patients rank perception of anxiety, modesty, dignity and overall satisfaction when patients are provided with either a standard patient gown or a standard patient gown plus a pair of specialized…
- Trial name
- NCT05015569
- Testing
- COVR Medical Garment, Standard Patient Gown
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- More Foundation
Cancer
Psychosocial Support for Cancer Patients
This is an international, 3-site trial (Winnipeg Canada, MSKCC NYC, Perth Australia) accruing 120 patients per site (120x3). The purpose of this study is to compare two types of counseling for cancer patients: "Dignity…
- Trial name
- NCT00133965
- Testing
- Dignity Psychotherapy, Supportive Psychotherapy, Standard Palliative Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 281 people
- Sponsor
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Malaria, Diarrhea
Partnership and Dignity: a Mixed-methods Survey on Supporting and Retaining Uganda's Village Health Teams
For more than a decade, Uganda's Ministry of Health has led a community health worker program model in which Village Health Teams (VHTs), cadres of unpaid volunteers, are assigned the task of delivering preventative health…
- Conditions
- Malaria, Diarrhea, Pneumonia
- Trial name
- NCT02374580
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 143 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- George Washington University