Clinical trials: Disasters
The Aim is to Strengthen Disaster Preparedness Knowledge and Skills Through Peer Interaction
The Effect of a Peer-Based Instructional Disaster Education Program on Disaster Preparedness Beliefs and Disaster Attitudes of First Aid and Emergency Program Students
Objective: Continuous education and training in disaster preparedness is critically important for first aid and emergency program students, who will be the future healthcare professionals, especially in the pre-hospital setting.
- Trial name
- disaster (NCT07564999)
- Testing
- peer-supported disaster preparedness training, Rutin
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 75 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Selcuk University
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
Hernia of Abdominal Wall, Incisional Hernia
"BP as a New Device for Surgery and Solid Cancer and Hematopoietic System Tumors Treatment. Effects of BP Implantation"
Nanotechnologies applied to General Surgery and Emergency Surgery: The Buckypaper as a new fixing method for prosthetic materials in the treatment of abdominal wall hernias in humans, in laparotomic procedures and as a new device…
- Trial name
- DM159 (NCT02328352)
- Testing
- BP selfstanding felt, PP mesh, BP intraperitoneal mesh
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Roma La Sapienza
Hernia, Incisional Hernia
"Nanotechnologies Applied to General Surgery and Emergency Surgery: Buckypaper as a New Fixing Method for Prosthetic Materials for the Treatment of Hernia and Incisional Hernia in Laparotomy and Laparoscopic
"Nanotechnologies applied to General Surgery and Emergency Surgery: The Buckypaper as a new fixing method for prosthetic materials in the treatment of abdominal wall hernias, diaphragmatic hernias, diaphragmatic rupture…
- Trial name
- 36P (NCT02137018)
- Testing
- PPL fixation by BP, PPL mesh
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Roma La Sapienza
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
Disasters, Disaster Preparedness
Effectiveness of an Audiovisual Disaster-Education Intervention on Disaster Risk Perception and Preparedness Belief Among Senior High-School Adolescents
This cluster-randomized controlled trial tests whether a short, standardized disaster-education video improves two psychological precursors of disaster preparedness among senior high-school students in a hazard-prone district of…
- Conditions
- Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Health Behavior, Risk Perception
- Trial name
- DERAP (NCT07781527)
- Testing
- Audiovisual disaster-education module, Attention-matched general-health video
- Volunteers
- 144 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tanjungpura University
Disaster Medicine Education and Preparedness Among Medical Students, Disaster Medicine Knowledge and Skills Training for Pre-clinical Medical Students
Disaster Medicine Training for Pre-Clinical Medical Students at the University of Tripoli, Libya
Libya has faced several natural and human-made disasters in recent years, highlighting the need to strengthen disaster preparedness and response capacity.
- Conditions
- Disaster Medicine Education and Preparedness Among Medical Students, Disaster Medicine Knowledge and Skills Training for Pre-clinical Medical Students, Disaster and Emergency Medicine Education and Preparedness Among Pre-clinical Medical Students
- Trial name
- DM-Course RCT (NCT07293572)
- Testing
- Structured Disaster Medicine Training Program
- Where
- Libya
- Volunteers
- 166 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Tripoli
Disaster, Older People
Disaster Preparedness of Older People
Disasters; It is an important public health problem of uncertain time, causing loss of life and property, having severe economic consequences, and causing serious health problems in the long term.
- Trial name
- SIMAH (NCT05859737)
- Testing
- Disaster Preparedness Education Program, Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency Education
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 66 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Akdeniz University
Crisis Intervention
The Impact of Crisis Management Training on Disaster Nursing Competencies
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of crisis management training designed for third-year nursing students. Crisis management in the healthcare sector holds critical importance during unforeseen events such as natural…
- Trial name
- NCT06898619
- Testing
- Crisis Management Training for Third-Year Nursing Students
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Beykent
Pulmonary Diseases
Airways Dysfunction Following WTC Dust Exposure
In the weeks following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many patients presented to their physicians with complaints related to exposure to the debris.
- Trial name
- NCT00395330
- Volunteers
- 500 people
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Acute Pain, Procedural Anxiety
Little NIRVANA for Pediatric Pain and Anxiety
The aim of this study is to test the feasibility of using Little NIRVANA (augmented reality (AR)) for managing anxiety and pain for children 2-8 years old during hospital emergency peripheral intravenous (PIV) insertions.
- Conditions
- Acute Pain, Procedural Anxiety, Pediatric ALL, Emergency Medicine
- Trial name
- NCT06795126
- Testing
- Little NIRVANA
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 130 people
- Sponsor
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
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
Emergency Preparedness, Nursing Students
Psychological First Aid Training for Nursing Students
This randomized controlled trial aimed to evaluate the effect of psychological first aid (PFA) training on disaster response and psychological first aid application self-efficacy among nursing students.
- Conditions
- Emergency Preparedness, Nursing Students, Crisis Intervention, Self-Efficacy
- Trial name
- PFA-EDU (NCT07086170)
- Testing
- Psychological First Aid Training
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 132 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Nurhayat Kiliç Bayageldi
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
Weight Gain
Post Disaster Nutrition Intervention for Under-two-year-old Children in Lombok Indonesia
In 2018, multiple earthquake with magnitude range from 6 to 7 hit Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Following the situational analysis and baseline study in December 2018 (4 months after the first…
- Trial name
- NIELombok (NCT03895398)
- Testing
- nutrition and psychosocial intervention with community participatory
- Where
- Indonesia
- Volunteers
- 480 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- SEAMEO Regional Centre for Food and Nutrition
Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Abdominal Pain
Bifidobacterium Infantis M-63 Improves Mental Health in Irritable Bowel Syndrome Developed After a Major Flood Disaster
A 3-month study was conducted in flood victims from affected villages in the Tumpat district, Kelantan. Participants were given either probiotic, Bifidobacterium infantis M63 (M-63 group) or no probiotics (control group) for…
- Conditions
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Abdominal Pain, Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth
- Trial name
- NCT03318614
- Testing
- Probiotics M-63, Control group
- Volunteers
- 53 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universiti Sains Malaysia
Substance Abuse, Families
Family-Based Drug Services for Young Disaster Victims
This protocol seizes this rare scientific opportunity to test an integrative family based model to address youths' coexisting substance abuse and trauma in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
- Conditions
- Substance Abuse, Families, Trauma
- Trial name
- Katrina (NCT01859000)
- Testing
- Multidimensional Family Therapy, Group CBT
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
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
Cigarette Smoking, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Enhanced Smoking Cessation Intervention for Smokers Exposed to the World Trade Center (WTC) Disaster
The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of a CBT-based smoking cessation treatment enhanced with transdiagnostic skills for the management of anxiety and fear-based avoidance behaviors (CBT-A) relative to a standard…
- Conditions
- Cigarette Smoking, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory
- Trial name
- NCT02538601
- Testing
- CBT-A, CBT-S
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 90 people
- Sponsor
- Stony Brook University
Earthquake, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
The Effect of Exercise on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Sleep Quality in Individuals Affected by the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes
Natural disasters can have adverse impacts on both physical and mental health. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and sleep disorders are among the most common problems seen after natural disasters.
- Trial name
- NCT06388876
- Testing
- Exercise, lifestyle advice
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University