Clinical trials: Literacy
Overweight and Obesity
Health Literacy and Overweight in Adolescents
Obesity in children and adolescents has become a major public health problem in recent years. In Belgium, 20% of people aged between 2 and 17 are overweight and 7% suffer from obesity.
- Trial name
- NCT03482193
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 254 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Liege
Colorectal Cancer
Shared Decision-making and Colorectal Cancer Screening
Conduct a feasibility pilot RCT of a newly developed colorectal cancer screening (CRC) decision aid (DA) including 66 LHL adults 76-85 years recruited from community health centers.
- Trial name
- NCT04748380
- Testing
- CRC decision aid pamphlet, Home Safety Pamphlet
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine
Metabolic Syndrome, Gut Bacteria
Health Improvement Through Food and Lifestyle Intervention Based On Personalized Retail Advice
FLORA is a longitudinal intervention study with a randomized, parallel group design. Primary objective is to improve metabolic health through gut microbiota modulation by means of a retailer-driven personalized dietary…
- Conditions
- Metabolic Syndrome, Gut Bacteria, Personalized Nutrition
- Trial name
- FLORA (NCT04102891)
- Testing
- Microbiota modulation diet
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- SmartWithFood
Sexual Behavior
Young Men and Media Study
Adolescent sexual minority males (ASMM) continue to account for a disproportionate number of HIV infections in the United States. Racial and ethnic minority populations are particularly affected.
- Trial name
- NCT04109443
- Testing
- Young Men & Media Program, Available websites on safe sex and preventing STIs
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 154 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston University
Health Literacy, Adult
Assessment of Health Literacy Among Adult Patients in the United Arab Emirates to Facilitate Clinical Trials Recruitment.
Health Literacy is the ability to understand health information and to use that information to make good decisions about health and medical care. Health informatin can overwhelm even people with advanced literacy skills.
- Conditions
- Health Literacy, Adult, UAE, Disease
- Trial name
- LIT (NCT02195778)
- Where
- United Arab Emirates
- Volunteers
- 1,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tawam Hospital
Motor Activity, Parent-Child Relations
PLAYshop: A Parent-focused Physical Literacy Intervention for Early Childhood
The PLAYshop program is a novel, brief, theory-based, parent-focused physical literacy intervention designed to address this major public health issue of childhood physical inactivity and to support families.
- Conditions
- Motor Activity, Parent-Child Relations, Child Development
- Trial name
- NCT05255250
- Testing
- PLAYshop
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 130 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alberta
Breastfeeding
Effectiveness of a Health Literacy-Based Breastfeeding Education Program
This study aims to evaluate the effects of a comprehensive breastfeeding education program based on a health literacy development strategy on maternal and paternal breastfeeding self-efficacy, fathers' breastfeeding support…
- Trial name
- NCT07724509
- Testing
- Routine postpartum breastfeeding care, Experimental
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Nigde Omer Halisdemir University
COPD
Palliative Care Health Literacy Education and QOL Compared to Usual Care
The goal of this pilot randomized controlled trial is to compare health literacy (HL) and quality of life (QOL) among older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who completed a series of standardized…
- Trial name
- PACED (NCT06089499)
- Testing
- Get Palliative Care: four educational learning module videos
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Missouri, Kansas City
Adolescent Behavior, Life Skills
Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment: Impact Evaluation of a Safe Space-Based Life Skills Training and Digital Literacy Training in Nigeria Space-Based Life Skills Training and Digital Literacy Training in Nigeria
The investigators will conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools in Nigeria to evaluate the impact of school-based life skills training delivered in safe spaces with and without digital literacy training.
- Conditions
- Adolescent Behavior, Life Skills, Digital Skills, Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Trial name
- NCT05951673
- Testing
- Safe Space based life skills training program, Safe Space based life skills training program + Digital Skills
- Where
- Nigeria
- Volunteers
- 8,463 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- World Bank
Women's Health: Neoplasm of Breast
The Effect of Breast Cancer Screening Training
The lack of knowledge of women on breast cancer and health literacy poses a major obstacle to people's breast cancer screening behaviors and beliefs.
- Trial name
- NCT05723237
- Testing
- Breast Cancer Education
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istanbul Aydın University
Fruit and Vegetable Intake, Eating Behavior
Effectiveness of the Apprenti en Action School-based Culinary Program on 9-10-year-old Children's Food Literacy
In New Brunswick, Canada, only 53% of Kindergarten to Grade 5 students reported eating five or more vegetables and fruits per day in 2016-2017.
- Trial name
- NCT05278377
- Testing
- "Apprenti en Action" program
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universite de Moncton
Intervention, Wait-List Control
Physical Activity Routines, Education, Assessment, Literacy, and Information Technology Application in Young Children
Engaging in appropriate volumes of physical activity is important to our current and future health status. Being able to develop habits for physical activity during early years of life may have long lasting benefits throughout…
- Conditions
- Intervention, Wait-List Control, Healthy
- Trial name
- PA-REALITY (NCT06742294)
- Testing
- Movement education
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 435 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
Obesity
Fast Food Photo Study
The investigators aim to discover if people of different demographic levels are more or less attentive to changes in calorie information vs. changes in price information on a restaurant menu.
- Trial name
- NCT02267954
- Testing
- Menu edited
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 309 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Carnegie Mellon University
Language Development, Behavior, Child
Literacy Promotion for Latinos Study
This study tests the extent to which tailored outreach text messages that provide a cue to action and an intervention that enhances access to poverty-reducing resources, in combination with standard primary care literacy…
- Conditions
- Language Development, Behavior, Child, Parenting, Literacy
- Trial name
- NCT04609553
- Testing
- Usual care including ROR, Text messages, Connection to community resources
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 662 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mental Health, Mental Health Literacy
Mental Health Literacy and Help-Seeking Behavior Among Adolescents
This study examines mental health awareness and help-seeking behaviors among adolescents aged 13-18 years in Assiut City, Egypt.
- Conditions
- Mental Health, Mental Health Literacy, Stigma of Mental Illness, Help-Seeking Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT07395245
- Testing
- School-Based Mental Health Literacy Educational Program
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
Pregnancy Trimester, First, Anxiety
Addressing Pregnant Women's First Trimester Worries and Information Needs With mHealth Solutions
The first 12 weeks of pregnancy, known as the first trimester, can be one of the most worrying times for women. (Where this lay summary refers to women, it should be taken to include people who do not identify as women but who…
- Conditions
- Pregnancy Trimester, First, Anxiety, Worries, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Trial name
- NCT07114471
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 1,450 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bournemouth University
Chronic Respiratory Disease
TAKINGCARE - TAcKlING the Needs of Carers of People With Chronic respirAtoRy disEases
This study aims to: i) develop an instrument that assesses the needs of informal carers of people with chronic respiratory diseases (CRD), along diseases' trajectory, and evaluate its measurement properties; ii) identify existing…
- Trial name
- NCT06459011
- Where
- Portugal
- Volunteers
- 250 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Aveiro University
Dementia, Alzheimer Disease
Efficacy Study of Kinto Care Coaching for Dementia Family Caregivers
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate Kinto's Care Coaching intervention for dementia caregivers. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does the intervention help caregivers to address their general caregiving goals…
- Conditions
- Dementia, Alzheimer Disease, Lewy Body Disease, Vascular Dementia
- Trial name
- NCT05916664
- Testing
- Kinto Care Coaching
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 495 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kinto
Healthy
Impact of Mindful Eating and Movement on University Students' Food and Physical Literacy, and Social-Emotional Competencies
The goal of this clinical trial is to investigate if the mindful eating and movement program can improve food literacy, physical literacy, and social-emotional competencies in university students aged 18-25 years.
- Trial name
- NCT06540898
- Testing
- Mindfulness-Based Eating and Movement Program
- Where
- 2 sites in Macau
- Volunteers
- 144 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Macau
Nutrition, Healthy
Nourish Clinical Trial
The purpose of the research study is to learn more about the best ways to teach cooking and food skills to adults, and how cooking classes may help reduce one's stress and food waste, as well as improve their diet.
- Trial name
- Nourish_CT (NCT06947954)
- Testing
- Nourish intervention then no intervention, no intervention then Nourish intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Case Western Reserve University