Clinical trials: Disaster
General Disaster Preparedness Belief State, Disaster Response Self-Efficiency
In Nursing Students, The Effect of Disaster Nursing Training Program on General Disaster Preparedness Belief State, Disaster Response Self-Efficiency and Psychological Resilience
In order to respond correctly to disasters, medical teams must have the necessary training and sufficient equipment. However, in many countries, disaster nursing education is not adequately included in nursing curricula (Kalanlar…
- Conditions
- General Disaster Preparedness Belief State, Disaster Response Self-Efficiency, Psychological Resilience, Nursing Students
- Trial name
- NCT04874337
- Testing
- Disaster nursing and management training will be given to students using Jenning's Disaster Nursing and Management Model.
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 140 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istanbul Kent University
Biological Specimens
Rapid Acquisition of Pre- and Post-Incident Disaster Data
Background: Disasters like earthquakes, floods, and oil spills can give people health problems. Workers who respond to a disaster (like police and firefighters) are directly exposed to contaminants during the emergency response.
- Trial name
- NCT02473770
- Where
- United States
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Depressive Symptoms Mild to Moderate in Severity
Therapeutic Touch and Acupressure on Depressive Symptoms
Therapeutic touch intervention Participants in the therapeutic touch group received eight sessions over four weeks (two sessions per week), with each session lasting approximately 20 minutes.
- Trial name
- Postmenopausal (NCT07532512)
- Testing
- Therapeutic touch intervention, Acupressure intervention
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 156 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Osmaniye Korkut Ata University
Heart Diseases, Type2 Diabetes
Psychosocial, Environmental, and Chronic Disease Trends in Puerto Rico
The overall goal is to identify trends and longitudinal associations in psychosocial, food-related, and cardiometabolic risk factors that can guide public health priorities and future research needs aimed at reducing…
- Conditions
- Heart Diseases, Type2 Diabetes, Hypertension, Obesity
- Trial name
- PROSPECT (NCT03794531)
- Where
- Puerto Rico
- Volunteers
- 2,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Disaster, Vulnerable Populations
Nurses Taking On Readiness Measures - Mercer County, New Jersey
Nurses Taking On Readiness Measures (N-TORM) is an innovative nurse-driven household emergency preparedness (HEP) intervention modeled after an existing community intervention provided by emergency management personnel.
- Trial name
- NTORM (NCT05455580)
- Testing
- Nurses Taking On Readiness Measures (N-TORM)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 31 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hunter College of City University of New York
Disaster Medicine, Difficult Intravenous Access
EASI Access II --- Follow-up Study to the EASI Access Trial
Test whether Basic Life Support (BLS) providers can successfully place Enzymatically Augmented Subcutaneous Infusion (EASI) Access lines for subcutaneous infusion, and characterize intravascular absorption of EASI-administered…
- Conditions
- Disaster Medicine, Difficult Intravenous Access, Dehydration
- Trial name
- NCT00740727
- Testing
- Human recombinant hyaluronidase (HRH), Enzymatically Augmented Subcutaneous Infusion (EASI) line placement
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Public Health Nursing
The Effect of Disaster Training on the Perception of Disaster Response Competence
Due to the increase in disasters, humanity is facing an increasing threat to life and property. Disasters occur with little warning and can last for hours or months.
- Trial name
- NCT06438029
- Testing
- Education group, control group
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- FATOŞ UNCU
Mental Health, Emotional Wellbeing
Strengthening Community Mental Health
The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the impact of the Communities Organizing for Power through Empathy (COPE) intervention in adults in communities having recently experienced or at risk of experiencing disaster.
- Conditions
- Mental Health, Emotional Wellbeing, Anxiety, Depression
- Trial name
- COPE (NCT06093737)
- Testing
- COPE: Communities Organizing for Power through Empathy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Louisiana State University and A&M College
Dialysis, Trauma Related Injuries
Analysis of Emergency Department (ED) Volumes During Natural Disasters
The 'Analysis of Emergency Department Volumes during Natural Disasters' retrospective study focuses on three specified populations including dialysis patients, trauma patients, and patients poisoned by carbon monoxide.
- Conditions
- Dialysis, Trauma Related Injuries, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Trial name
- NCT01059981
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Depression
EMDR 2.0 Group Therapy for PTSD, Depression, and Anxiety in Earthquake Survivors
The objective of this clinical study was to examine whether a brief EMDR 2.0 group intervention could reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety in adult survivors of the 2023 Türkiye…
- Conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Depression, Anxiety
- Trial name
- EQ-EMDR20 (NCT06991244)
- Testing
- EMDR 2.0 Group Protocol
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 58 people
- Sponsor
- Okan University
Students, Earthquake
The Effect of a Mobile Earthquake Education Application
This research aims to experimentally explore the effect of the mobile earthquake education application developed for high school students on the earthquake knowledge level and earthquake risk perception of high school students.
- Conditions
- Students, Earthquake, Education
- Trial name
- NCT06165263
- Testing
- Mobile earthquake education
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dokuz Eylul University
Obesity
Antecedents of Obesity: Fetal Measures of Adiposity
The purpose of this research is to study whether fetal biometrics obtained by 2-D ultrasound can predict infant adiposity by air displacement plethysmography at birth.
- Trial name
- FEMA (NCT00715754)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 47 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Utah
Telemedicine, Disaster Medicine
Feasibility of Telemedicine Under Ambulance Station Conditions
Our aim is to evaluate the feasibility of telemedicine in context of medical service in an ambulance station and in a further step in context of civil defense situations.
- Conditions
- Telemedicine, Disaster Medicine, Emergency Medicine
- Trial name
- NCT05388071
- Testing
- Usage of telemedicine and tele-consultation for treatment
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 404 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- RWTH Aachen University
Caregiver Resilience and Stress
Emergency Preparedness for Caregivers of Persons With Dementia: Disaster PrepWise
Individuals with dementia and their families are especially vulnerable during a disaster as it limits caregivers' ability to continue with care due to disaster related stress and reduced access to resources and support.
- Trial name
- DPW-Caregiver (NCT05619263)
- Testing
- Disaster PrepWise-Caregiver
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 250 people
- Sponsor
- Sato Ashida
Thyroid Carcinoma, Thyroid Papillary Carcinoma
Malignancy Predictors, Bethesda and TI-RADS Scores Correlated With Final Histopathology in Thyroid Diseases
In the last decades, thyroid cancer incidence has continuously increased all over the world, almost exclusively due to a sharp rise in the incidence of the papillary histologic subtype, which has the highest incidence of…
- Conditions
- Thyroid Carcinoma, Thyroid Papillary Carcinoma, Multinodular Goiter, Adolescent, Solitary Thyroid Nodule
- Trial name
- NCT04411290
- Testing
- Total thyroidectomy (TT)
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Umraniye Education and Research Hospital
Disaster, Vulnerable Populations
Korean Translation and Validation of the K-HEPI in NYC
Nurses Taking on Readiness Measures (N-TORM) is an innovative nurse-driven household emergency preparedness intervention modeled after an existing community intervention provided by emergency management personnel.
- Trial name
- NCT05544578
- Testing
- Nurses Taking On Readiness Measures (N- TORM)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hunter College of City University of New York
Fire
The Effectiveness of an On-line Training Program on Hospital Medical Staff to Improve Fire Knowledge
Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of an online training program on medical staff in five public hospitals located in Sichuan, Yunnan, Hubei, and Fujian Provinces of China, on improving fire knowledge.
- Trial name
- NCT02438150
- Testing
- Hospital fire video training, Non hospital fire video training
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 128 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Diabetes
Disaster Preparedness Among Families Caring for Children With Diabetes
The primary aim of the survey is to ascertain the emergency preparedness among our families with diabetes mellitus and to obtain a percentage of unprepared to the ones who are prepared.
- Trial name
- NCT00781313
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 142 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Baylor College of Medicine
Mindfulness, Woman, Stress, Disaster
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Reducing Perceived Stress in Women Impacted by Large-Scale Disasters
Hypothesis: Women affected by large-scale disasters who participate in an eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program will experience significantly lower perceived stress levels compared to those in the control…
- Trial name
- RCT (NCT07283601)
- Testing
- MBSRP
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hasan Kalyoncu University
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