Clinical trials: End of Life Care
Death Anxiety, Occupational Stress
Effect of Expressive Arts Therapy on Death Anxiety in Intensive Care Unit Nurses
This randomized controlled trial aimed to evaluate the effect of expressive arts therapy on death anxiety among intensive care unit nurses.
- Conditions
- Death Anxiety, Occupational Stress, Psychological Distress
- Trial name
- Expressive Art (NCT07462936)
- Testing
- Expressive Arts Therapy
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 66 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ondokuz Mayıs University
Clinical Decision-Making
Mixed Methods Study Web-based Life Support Decision Aid
Patients and families want to be involved in healthcare decisions. When the decision-making process does not engage older patients and their families, the care provided does not match patient preferences or meet their needs.
- Trial name
- eLSDA (NCT03271658)
- Testing
- Web based life support patient decision aid, Decision coaching
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Saskatchewan
Palliative Care
The PROAKTIV Study
The overall objective of this study is to identify whether the systematic anticipation of highly structured specialized palliative home care into primary care influences the quality of care and care utilization.
- Trial name
- NCT04673760
- Testing
- Specialized palliative home care
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 149 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
Maternal Mortality, Access to Health Care
Project to Use Community Health Workers to Reduce Maternal Deaths
The purpose of this trial is to establish if several interventions will help women in rural Tanzania access health care services during pregnancy and at the time of delivery.
- Trial name
- EWH (NCT03024905)
- Testing
- Village meeting and travel vouchers, Birth kit with misoprostol
- Where
- Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 17,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bruyère Health Research Institute.
Aging Problems
Enhancing Care of the Aged and Dying in Prisons Ph II
The mission of corrections is to provide custody, control and care for incarcerated individuals. United States prisons are required by constitutional law to provide adequate care for growing numbers of older inmates who will…
- Trial name
- NCT03055429
- Testing
- Full Scale Unit
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 241 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Klein Buendel, Inc.
Terminal Cancer
Towards Cancer Patient Empowerment for Optimal Use of Antithrombotic Therapy at the End of Life
Despite the fact that antithrombotic therapy (ATT) has little or even negative effects on the well-being of cancer patients during their last year of life, stopping ATT is rare in clinical practice.
- Trial name
- SERENITY (NCT05706740)
- Testing
- Physician survey on antithrombotic medication during end-of-life care in cancer patients
- Where
- 12 sites in Denmark, France and 6 more
- Volunteers
- 467 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Fetal Death, Fetal Anomaly
Antenatal Palliative Care
In France, according to current legislation, termination of pregnancy could be performed without any upper gestational age limit, if there is a strong probability that the fetus will be affected by a particularly severe and…
- Trial name
- SPAN (NCT03795857)
- Testing
- Semi-structured interviews
- Where
- 3 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 9 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
End of Life, Palliative Patients
IMPULS-NRW: Telemedicine in Specialized Outpatient Palliative Care
This study examines the feasibility, user-friendliness, and impact of digital support in outpatient palliative care. Patients, relatives, and professional caregivers use the web-based ISPC platform (information system for…
- Conditions
- End of Life, Palliative Patients, Outpatient Treatment
- Trial name
- IMPULS-NRW (NCT07491679)
- Testing
- IMPULS-NRW
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Muenster
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Changes in Sleep Patterns and Stress in Infants Entering Child Care
When babies start day care, they experience many changes, some of which may affect their risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
- Trial name
- NCT01265277
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rachel Moon, MD
Elderly
Using Videos to Improve Understanding of the Delivery of End-of-life Medical Care in Non-hospital Settings
To compare the decision making of elderly subjects having a verbal advance care planning discussion compared to subjects using a video.
- Trial name
- NCT01233973
- Testing
- video decision aid
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 101 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Unexpected Hospital Mortality, Death, Sudden, Cardiac
Prevention of Serious Adverse Events in Acute Care Hospitals by Afferent Limb and Response Method Intervention - the ALARM Intervention Study.
1. Summary Growing evidence suggests that a significant proportion of in-hospital patient deaths occur after serious adverse events (SAE's).
- Conditions
- Unexpected Hospital Mortality, Death, Sudden, Cardiac, Unplanned Intensive Care Unit Admission
- Trial name
- ALARM (NCT01949025)
- Testing
- ALARM intervention
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 69,656 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universiteit Antwerpen
Advance Care Planning
Culturally-Adapting a Communication Intervention to Improve Palliative Care Literacy on Two Native American Reservations
This study will evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and perceived effectiveness of the culturally-adapted COMFORT Communication Curriculum in two Native American reservation communities.
- Trial name
- NCT03569150
- Testing
- Cultural adaptation/implementation COMFORT CC
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- South Dakota State University
Covid19, Death
COVID-19 Infections and Mortality in Long-term Care Facilities During the First Wave
The medical charts of all COVID-19 cases (n=1200) from 17 long-term care facilities in Montreal, Canada will be reviewed, to compare patients who survived to patients who did not survive.
- Conditions
- Covid19, Death, Infection Viral, Infections, Respiratory
- Trial name
- NCT04782427
- Testing
- COVID-19 infection
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 1,197 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre integre universitaire de sante et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal
Prenatal Care
Group Antenatal Care: The Power of Peers for Increasing Skilled Birth Attendance in Achham, Nepal
In rural Nepal, the major drivers of underutilization of skilled birth attendance are poverty, poor social support and inadequate birth planning.
- Trial name
- NCT02330887
- Testing
- Group Antenatal Care, Individual Antenatal Care
- Where
- Nepal
- Volunteers
- 2,184 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Possible
Sudden Unexplained Infant Death, Child Rearing
Comparing Children's Books to Brochures for Safe Sleep and Infant Reading Education During Prenatal Care
The aim of this randomized trial is to compare a specially designed children's book to brochures for safe sleep education via clinical providers at a third trimester prenatal obstetric visit.
- Conditions
- Sudden Unexplained Infant Death, Child Rearing, Literacy
- Trial name
- NCT04031235
- Testing
- Sleep Baby, Safe and Snug, Read Baby, Every Day
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 144 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Alzheimer Disease, End of Life
Palliative Care Education in Assisted Living for Dementia Care Providers (PCEAL-DCP)
The palliative care education in assisted living for dementia care providers (PCEAL-DCP) is a 4-week intervention (once a week for 1.5 hours, a total of 6 hours) for licensed nurses, administrators and dementia care coordinators…
- Conditions
- Alzheimer Disease, End of Life, Caregiver Burden, Caregiver Burnout
- Trial name
- PCEAL-DCP (NCT06722352)
- Testing
- Palliative Care Training
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 792 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of South Florida
Communication, End of Life
Improving Breaking Bad News in Pediatrics by Simulated Communication
Breaking bad news, especially a death notice, is an essential part of the medical profes-sional communication. Being inadequately trained in those skills this may result in un-pleasant psychosocial consequences for everyone…
- Conditions
- Communication, End of Life, Pediatric ALL
- Trial name
- SimCom (NCT06376188)
- Testing
- communication training
- Where
- Austria
- Volunteers
- 46 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University of Vienna
Pregnancy Complications, Preterm Labor
Strengthening Facility-based Intrapartum/Immediate Newborn Care to Reduce Mortality of Preterm Infants in Migori County, Kenya and Busoga Region, Uganda
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a combination of evidence-based strategies can improve intrapartum and newborn care in facilities to reduce mortality among preterm infants.
- Conditions
- Pregnancy Complications, Preterm Labor, PreTerm Birth, Stillbirth
- Trial name
- PTBi-KE-UG (NCT03112018)
- Testing
- data strengthening, modified Safe childbirth checklist - control, modified Safe childbirth checklist - enhanced
- Where
- 2 sites in Kenya, Uganda
- Volunteers
- 102,988 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardiovascular Diseases Risk
Cor360: Clinician-Facing Broad-Spectrum Cardiac Phenotyping and Risk Assessment Using COR® Wearable ECG to Inform Outcomes-Oriented Care Pathways
Cor360 is an observational study evaluating whether extended wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) data can support broad-spectrum cardiac phenotyping and risk assessment beyond conventional single-purpose ambulatory rhythm…
- Conditions
- Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardiovascular Diseases Risk, Cardiac Conduction System Disease, Bundle/Fascicular Abnormalities
- Trial name
- Cor360 (NCT07775976)
- Testing
- COR Wearable ECG Monitoring, Cor360 Clinician-Facing Decision-Aid Reporting
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Peerbridge Health, Inc
End-of-life Care
The Effect of End-of-Life Care Awareness Education on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Intensive Care Nurses: A Randomized Controlled Study
This study was designed as a prospective randomized controlled study in order to evaluate the effect of end-of-life care awareness training to be given to intensive care nurses on the knowledge levels, attitudes, and behaviors of…
- Trial name
- NCT05994430
- Testing
- End-of-life care awareness training in intensive care
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 76 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istanbul University