Clinical trials: Public Health
Malaria, Public Health
Evaluation of a New Malaria Control Strategy Amongst Gold Miners Working Illegally in French Guiana (Malakit)
Illegal gold miners in French Guiana, a French overseas territory ('département') located in Amazonia, often carry malaria parasites (up to 46.8%).
- Trial name
- MALAKIT (NCT03695770)
- Testing
- kit for self-diagnosis and self-treatment
- Where
- 2 sites in Brazil, Suriname
- Volunteers
- 3,733 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne
Public Health
Exercise Habit & MPAC
The limitations of applying social cognitive models to understand physical activity (PA) have led to the emergence of several new PA models within the past decade.
- Trial name
- NCT04651751
- Testing
- Facilitating an Exercise Habit and Identity via the Multi-Process Action Control Model- A Randomized-Controlled Trial
- Volunteers
- 85 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Victoria
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety Depression
Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Parents of Disabled Child
This study was carried out to determine the effect of ACT-based interventions applied to parents of special needs children (CSN) on their levels of psychological inflexibility, psychological resilience, depression, anxiety…
- Conditions
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety Depression, Caregiver Burden, Public Health Nurse
- Trial name
- ACT (NCT04307706)
- Testing
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Akdeniz University
Public Health, Sarcopenia
Appendicular Skeletal Muscle Mass Study
There is a lot of discussion concerning the normal cut-off points of skeletal mass among different populations worldwide. Genetic and environmental differences most probably lead to different measurements.
- Trial name
- SmmS (NCT04584944)
- Testing
- Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry
- Where
- Greece
- Volunteers
- 500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Henry Dunant Hospital Center
Public Health, Demography
COVID-19 Health Messaging Efficacy and Its Impact on Public Perception, Anxiety, and Behavior
Effective communication is a critical component of managing pandemic outbreaks like COVID-19. This study explores COVID-19 related public knowledge, perceptions, belief in public health recommendations, intent to comply with…
- Conditions
- Public Health, Demography, Pandemics, Corona Virus Infection
- Trial name
- NCT04377581
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 18,251 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Global Surgery, Health System
Surgical Assessment Tool for Ethiopia National Policy Monitoring & Evaluation
Introduction: A baseline assessment of surgical capacity is recommended as a first-step to inform national policy on surgical system strengthening.
- Conditions
- Global Surgery, Health System, Health Planning, Global Anesthesia
- Trial name
- NCT04276103
- Volunteers
- 14 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)
Mental Health, Public Health
The Effects of Yoga on Student Mental Health
The investigators performed a randomised controlled trial with 202 healthy university students in the Oslo area, with 50:50 in a yoga intervention group and a waitlist control group.
- Conditions
- Mental Health, Public Health, Depression, Anxiety, Sleep Problem
- Trial name
- NCT04258540
- Testing
- Yoga group, yoga course
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 202 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oslo
Hepatitis C, Public Health
HCV RAS Testing in Public Health Programs
Successful treatment of hepatitis C has been reported to be associated with 62-84% reduction in all-cause mortality (deaths), 68-79% reduction in risk of HCC and 90% reduction in risk of liver transplantation.
- Conditions
- Hepatitis C, Public Health, Direct Acting Antiviral Agents, Resistance Associated Substitutions
- Trial name
- RAS-HCV (NCT04242433)
- Testing
- Direct Acting Antivirals
- Where
- 2 sites in India
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
Family's Connection to Community Resources and Public Benefits, Caregiver Satisfaction and Connectedness to Clinic
Community to Clinic Linkage Program at SFGH
It is increasingly clear that the environment in which a child lives, plays, and goes to school has a significant impact on their health.
- Conditions
- Family's Connection to Community Resources and Public Benefits, Caregiver Satisfaction and Connectedness to Clinic, Child Health Care Status
- Trial name
- CCLiP@SFGH (NCT01939704)
- Testing
- Pediatric Primary Care Intervention, Pediatric Urgent Care Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,809 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Information Dissemination, Evidence-Based Public Health
Disseminating Public Health Evidence to Support State Health Department Prevention of Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
The purpose of this study is to identify and evaluate dissemination strategies to promote the uptake of evidence-based cancer and other chronic disease prevention among state-level public health practitioners.
- Trial name
- NCT01978054
- Testing
- Dissemination of public health knowledge
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,703 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
PUBLIC HEALTH EVALUATION
Sharing HIV/AIDS Responsibilities and Efforts
PUBLIC HEALTH EVALUATION PROTOCOL on Impact of Task Shifting Type II for ART Delivery on Patient and Process Outcomes in Uganda
- Trial name
- SHARE (NCT02417636)
- Testing
- Task Shifting
- Where
- Uganda
- Volunteers
- 1,760 people
- Sponsor
- Infectious Diseases Institute
Public Health
Valuation of Health State Using Virtual Reality
Financials constraints of health systems require suitable indices and criteria to better allocate resources in order to enhance and maximize social welfare.
- Trial name
- ReV-UTIL (NCT02907034)
- Testing
- Virtual reality experimentation sequency (VR), Classical narrative approach (CN)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 140 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille
Quality-Adjusted Life Years, Epidemiology
Estimation of Disability Adjusted Life Years in Reunion Island and Comparison to Metropolitan France and Other Countries in the Indian Ocean Zone
AVIRON study aims at estimating the burden of various causes of death and morbidity in the Reunion Island population.
- Conditions
- Quality-Adjusted Life Years, Epidemiology, Public Health
- Trial name
- AVIRON (NCT02905500)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 800,000 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion
Public Health
National Health Interview Survey in Taiwan
The major elements of the survey were sampling, questionnaire design, field survey and database construction. This survey incorporated the multistage stratified sampling scheme.
- Trial name
- NHIS (NCT02843360)
- Volunteers
- 23,296 people
- Sponsor
- National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
Public Health
Exercise Habit and M-PAC
The promotion of physical activity (PA) is paramount to public health, yet interventions in the social cognitive tradition have yielded negligible improvements.
- Trial name
- NCT02785107
- Testing
- M-PAC Group
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 94 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Victoria
Develop a New Group Version of the Becker-DeGroot-Marsckek (BDM) Auction to Measure Willingness to Pay of Compound Members for Shared Hardware., Develop a New Survey Instrument to Measure Behavioural Determinants of Hand Washing and Water Treatment Like Disgust and Shame or Social Pressure.
Disgust and Shame Based Safe Water and Handwashing Promotion
An estimated 2.2 million children under the age of 5 years die from diarrheal disease each year. Most of the burden of diarrheal disease is thought to be preventable with improvements in sanitation, water quality, and hygiene.
- Conditions
- Develop a New Group Version of the Becker-DeGroot-Marsckek (BDM) Auction to Measure Willingness to Pay of Compound Members for Shared Hardware., Develop a New Survey Instrument to Measure Behavioural Determinants of Hand Washing and Water Treatment Like Disgust and Shame or Social Pressure., Identify New Methods for Measuring Hand Washing and Water Treatment Behaviour., Compare the Effectiveness of the Disgust and Shame Based Interventions With Standard Public Health Interventions.
- Trial name
- NCT02037243
- Testing
- Standard Public Health Intervention with Water Treatment, Standard Public Health Intervention with Water Treatment & Hand Washing
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 420 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Sexually Transmitted Disease, Secondary Prevention
Project Sexual Awareness for Everyone (SAFE)
This trial randomizes young Mexican American and African American women with a sexually transmitted infection to a behavioral intervention (3 three hour weekly sessions) versus control with the goal of preventing recurrent…
- Conditions
- Sexually Transmitted Disease, Secondary Prevention, Behavioral Modification, Public Health
- Trial name
- SAFE (NCT00643019)
- Testing
- SAFE Behavioral Intervention, Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 800 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Public Health
Sheffield Physical Activity Booster Trial
Adults that increase their physical activity can improve their health, and reduce future risks to health, but long-term changes are difficult to sustain.
- Trial name
- Booster (NCT00836459)
- Testing
- Mini Booster, Full Booster
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 282 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Richard Hudson
Oral Health, Diagnosis, Oral
Evaluation of Salivary Flow and Buffer Capacity Associated to Aged People's Oral Health
The purpose of this study is to identify the relation of the salivary flow and the buffer capacity of the saliva with medicine, buccal discomfort and auto-related illnesses in aged people.
- Conditions
- Oral Health, Diagnosis, Oral, Public Health
- Trial name
- NCT00651248
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 68 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Academia Cearense de Odontologia