There are about 3753 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Hong Kong. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
Type 2 diabetes becomes the most prevalence chronic disease worldwide. Most type 2 diabetes patient are under the care in public general out-patient clinic in Hong Kong. The chronic nature of diabetic and the complexity of its management, on top of medication, diabetic patients often require behaviour modification and self-care management support. Effective diabetes self-care management education with patient-centered care approach with patients' participation and engagement has been shown to improve the clinical outcome. But such application during doctors' consultation are minimal in view of time limitation. Primary Care Nurse (PCN) is the first contact and is easily accessible in GOPCs. With support and training, PCN could act as a case manager to deliver the coordinated care. Interact and engage type 2 diabetes patients in self-care management, and work with multidisciplinary team in providing patient-centered care in GOPC setting. As there is lack of evidence about adopting such approach in the investigator's local population. This study is to test the effectiveness of the PCN led self-care management program to improve patients' clinical outcomes.
The Unified Protocol (UP) is an emotion-focused, cognitive-behavioural intervention that is developed to target core temperamental characteristics underlying anxiety and depressive disorders. Ehrenreich and colleagues developed UP for adolescents (UP-A). The current study aims at evaluating efficacy of UP-A for the treatment of emotional disorders in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. The current study would recruit 27 Chinese-speaking patients, age 13 to 18, with a primary diagnosis of any Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (Fifth edition) anxiety disorders and/or depressive disorder. They would be randomized into one of the two treatment arms, namely UP-A treatment condition (UP-A), and treatment-as-usual (TAU) condition. Following randomization, participants in the UP-A condition would attend individual treatment based on UP-A, which last for 10 to 12 weeks. Participants in the TAU condition would be provided with usual clinical psychological service (i.e. treatment as usual) in the first 12 weeks before they start attending the same individual treatment program. Primary outcomes would be patient's self-rated measures on clinical symptoms, and secondary outcomes would be their clinical diagnoses, parent-rated and other self-rated measures. It is hypothesized that, comparing to those in TAU, participants in the UP-A condition would show improvements in depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms and functional impairment at the end of treatment. When the outcomes of all participants are combined, it is hypothesized that participants will show demonstrate improvement in depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and functional impairment after completing the UP-A and at the 3-month follow-up.
Lateral soft tissue release is commonly performed as part of the surgical correction of hallux valgus. This study will look at the results form a series of patients whom have underwent the arthroscopic lateral soft tissue release.
Evaluation of the Efficacy and Safety of Pegcetacoplan in Patients with Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria .
This is a sequential mixed study to test the hypothesized models with seven hypotheses of the relationship between cognitive deficit (subject and objective) and neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) among persons with mild cognitive impairment (PwMCI). The study will also examine the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Mild Behavioural Impairment -Checklist (MBI-C).
In this study, researchers wanted to learn more about the effect of Aspirin taken as low dose (75 - 300 mg) in preventing stomach, colorectal and esophagus cancer. The researchers were interested in the effect by duration of aspirin use and the effect on the time since aspirin intake has been stopped in preventing stomach, colorectal and esophagus cancer. In addition, the study also looked into the time patients survived after being diagnosed (survival rate) with cancer and number of cancer patients who died (case fatality rate). The study was based on an electronic database managed by the Health Authority in Hong Kong containing anonymized clinical information of patients living in Hong Kong.
This clinical study was designed to support the dose selection for future studies by evaluating efficacy and safety of different QBW251 doses in Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with chronic bronchitis and a history of exacerbations, compared to placebo, when added to a triple inhaled therapy of LABA, LAMA and ICS.
The main purpose of this study is to assess the long-term safety and tolerability of paliperidone 6-month PP6M (Dose 1 or Dose 2 [milligram] mg eq.) and to provide access to PP6M in participants with schizophrenia completing the R092670PSY3015 study without relapse.
This is a prospective study that aims to define the utility of cardiac magnetic resonance feature tracking (CMR-FT) as a non-invasive quantification tool to assess diastolic functionality in patients with Heart Failure with preserved ejection fraction.
In Hong Kong, methamphetamine use is common and cocaine use has increased steadily over the past few years. While the use of ketamine decreased from 35.8% in 2015 to 13.9% in 2017, methamphetamine and cocaine have become the most commonly used psychotropic substances and account for more than 50% of drug abuses cases in 2017. Among all stimulants, methamphetamine is most commonly used because it releases three times more dopamine than cocaine and the effects can last from eight to twelve hours, compared to two hours for cocaine. On top of its extreme effects, methamphetamine is relatively inexpensive, making it even more accessible to the young population. Misuse of methamphetamine has long been associated with profound psychological and cognitive disturbance. In reviewing the cognitive data from reasonably well-matched groups of chronic methamphetamine users and healthy controls, the majority of studies have found that chronic methamphetamine users had lower scores on at least some cognitive tests, although some studies are exceptions with entirely nonsignificant differences. A meta-analysis of 17 cross-sectional studies found that chronic methamphetamine users demonstrated significantly lower cognitive scores than healthy controls. The effects were largest for measures of learning, executive functions, memory, and processing speed, although the majority of cognitive domains significantly differed between the groups. Concerns has been emerging regarding the methodology of the aforementioned results. In particular, the appropriateness of using healthy controls to examine the cognitive effects of stimulant use has been questioned. Much of the published research has fallen victim to using controls with significant baseline differences from the chronic stimulant users, such as years of education. In addition, none of the studies available provided scatter plots of their cognitive data to evaluate the overlap in performance between chronic stimulant users and healthy controls. In fact, many chronic stimulant users have normal cognitive function when compared with normative data. Therefore, the use of the term 'impairment' or 'deficit' in many studies is not fully justified. Another limitation is that it cannot differentiate cognitive weaknesses that may predate stimulant use from those that result from it. Notably, longitudinal studies have shown that childhood deficits in executive function can predict drug abuse in adolescence, suggesting that at least some of the cognitive weaknesses pre-exist in chronic stimulant user. These and other limitations provoked a conclusion that the evidence for cognitive deficits in chronic stimulant users is weak. In order to overcome the methodological issues observed in previous cross-sectional studies, we propose to conduct a prospective studies to determine the change in cognitive function among stimulant users over time.