Clinical trials: Family Communication
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
Behavior, Infant
Efficacy of Family Programs for Improving Child and Family Health and Development
The proposed research is relevant to public health because of the critical importance of infant attachment and early experiences to the lifetime trajectory of mental health and socio-emotional functioning.
- Trial name
- NCT03367845
- Testing
- Control, Sensitivity Intervention, Couples' Intervention
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,005 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Colorado State University
Parenting, Language Development
Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten
This study pilot tests a family wellness program that promotes academic and physical readiness for school among Latino dual language learners using a mixed methods and community engaged approach.
- Conditions
- Parenting, Language Development, Literacy, Health Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT05339464
- Testing
- Family Wellness program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Family Conflict, Marital Conflict
Families of Youth with Developmental Disabilities: a Theory-Based Intervention
This study is designed to evaluate a preventive intervention program designed to support families (parents and typically developing adolescent siblings) that include a child with an intellectual and/or developmental disability.
- Conditions
- Family Conflict, Marital Conflict, Communication
- Trial name
- NCT03495440
- Testing
- Center Sessions, At-home
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Notre Dame
Cancer Risk Syndrome
Intervention For Adolescents and Young Adults (AYAs) With Cancer Risk Syndromes
This research is being done because there is a need to improve cancer risk communication and decision-making among adolescents and young adults.
- Trial name
- AYA-RISE (NCT04323774)
- Testing
- AYA-RISE Adolescents and Young Adults Risk Information and Screening Education, Standard clinical visit for genetic counseling
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 115 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Anxiety, Health Education
QR Code Video Education for ICU Family Members
This prospective randomized controlled study aims to evaluate the effect of a QR code-based digital information video on knowledge level and anxiety among family members of intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
- Conditions
- Anxiety, Health Education, Family Members of Intensive Care Unit Patients
- Trial name
- QR-ICU (NCT07660705)
- Testing
- QR Code-Based Digital Educational Video
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Elazıg Fethi Sekin Sehir Hastanesi
Communication
Bringing I-PASS to the Bedside: A Communication Bundle to Improve Patient Safety and Experience
Patient and Family-Centered I-PASS is a bundle of communication interventions to improve the quality of information exchange between physicians, nurses, and families, and to better integrate families into all aspects of daily…
- Trial name
- NCT02320175
- Testing
- Patient and Family Centered I-PASS
- Where
- 7 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 6,478 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital
Early Onset Alzheimer Disease, Frontotemporal Dementia
RHAPSODY-plus: Online Counseling for Family Caregivers of Patients With Young Onset Dementia
The RHAPSODY-plus project consists of two parts. In a first step carers of people with young onset dementia (YOD; onset before the age of 65) have the opportunity to use the RHAPSODY online program (Kurz et al., 2016) to inform…
- Trial name
- RHAPSODY-plus (NCT03923517)
- Testing
- RHAPSODY online program and MEET online sessions
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Technical University of Munich
Pediatric Obesity
Quincy Family, Youth & Technology For Lifestyle Change (FYT-4-LIFE) Study
To date, approaches that show the most promise for preventing and/or reversing the course of childhood obesity involve the delivery of intensive lifestyle interventions within a family-based context, emphasizing the necessity of…
- Trial name
- QFYT (NCT02324361)
- Testing
- Physical Activity, Evidence-based information on healthy family routines
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Caregivers, Family Caregivers
Communication and Hospice Online With Optimal Support and Engagement
The project is a multisite, three-group randomized control trial (RCT) with equal and parallel mixed-methods analysis that allows standardized measures combined with rich qualitative data to test hypotheses and answer research…
- Conditions
- Caregivers, Family Caregivers, Cancer Caregivers
- Trial name
- CHOOSE (NCT07764432)
- Testing
- Intermittent Hospice Team Support, Online Support Group with untrained facilitator, Online Support Group with trained facilitator
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 567 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Family
A Digital Game on Promoting Family Well-being
Advances in information communication technologies (ICT) allow for ICT-assisted health promotion to become more common. Integrating ICT in health promotion has been suggested to offer many advantages compared to traditional…
- Trial name
- NCT04550065
- Testing
- Digital game
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
Speech Sound Disorder
Sharing Books With Children
The promotion of language and communicative development in the early years is extremely important. Children who enter school with good language skills have better educational and economic success.
- Trial name
- NCT03006744
- Testing
- Phonological awareness training, Reading enjoyment training
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Manchester
Language Impairment
Delivering EMT Via Telehealth to Children and Families
In the U.S., approximately 12% of children under 36 months have language impairments, yet less than 2% receive early language intervention.
- Trial name
- NCT04604821
- Testing
- Enhanced Milieu Teaching, Parent Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Oregon Health and Science University
Laughter Yoga
Effects of Laughter Yoga in Mothers of PICU Patients
This randomized controlled trial examined the effects of laughter yoga on resilience and coping attitudes in mothers of children hospitalized in the pediatric intensive care unit.
- Trial name
- NCT07340229
- Testing
- Laughter Yoga
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Izmir Democracy University
Adolescent
Correlation Study of Family Communication Disorders and Negative Network Use Behavior Among Adolescents
The entry point of this project is the social background of the post-epidemic era, with teenagers and parents as the research object, aims to explore the relationship between family communication disorders and adolescent negative…
- Trial name
- NCT05939323
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 140 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Wei XIA, PhD
Childhood Obesity
Talking About Weight With Families: An Innovative Educational Strategy
Tools are limited to help health care professionals and parents talk about weight-related issues with their paediatric patients and children, respectively.
- Trial name
- NCT03664492
- Testing
- Educational whiteboard video
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 128 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hospital for Sick Children
Communication
Nighttime Communication Study
This study seeks to determine whether a family-centered nighttime communication intervention improves: 1) shared understanding by parents, residents, and nurses of hospitalized pediatric patient's medical plans, 2)…
- Trial name
- NCT01836601
- Testing
- Family-centered nighttime communication bundle
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,334 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital
Vaccine Hesitancy, Health Education
Effect of Primary Care Education on Parents' Health-Related Perceptions and Attitudes
This study aims to evaluate the effect of a structured education program delivered in primary health care settings on parents of children aged 0-2 years.
- Conditions
- Vaccine Hesitancy, Health Education, Digital Health Literacy, Eco-anxiety
- Trial name
- NCT07381088
- Testing
- Structured Education Program
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 173 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yuzuncu Yil University
Adolescents
Adolescents' Non-suicidal Behavior and Perception of Parents' Negative Emotional Expression and Family Communication
The starting point of this project is to study young people and adolescents, aiming to explore the correlation between non-suicidal behavior of young people and adolescents and the negative emotional expression of their parents…
- Trial name
- NCT06290115
- Testing
- Questionnaires set 1, Questionnaires set 2, Questionnaires set 3
- Volunteers
- 324 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sun Yat-sen University
Asthma in Children
Asthma Clinics Helping Expand Cost Conversations
Healthcare costs are a critical barrier to U.S. families' ability to access the preventive care needed to manage their children's asthma.
- Trial name
- Asthma CHECC (NCT04669080)
- Testing
- Health care provider cost navigation training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 65 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill