There are about 173942 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in United States. 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.
Consumption of a high-fiber diet, often consisting of beans and vegetables, is recommended for improvements in overall health. Unfortunately, intake of the above-mentioned foods is often associated with a significant increase in intestinal gas production. In addition to gas, abdominal bloating, cramping, and associated symptoms can prove unacceptable-leading people to limit or abandon the consumption of bean-rich meals. In an attempt to reduce gas formation and the ensuing symptoms, various anti-gas products have been developed and are sold on the market. One such non-prescription product is Beano, a solution of the enzyme alpha-galactosidase. In addition to alpha-galactosidase, activated charcoal has also been used successfully in some, but not all, studies and may be a good option for certain individuals. CharcoCaps® is a branded form of activated charcoal that has been sold for several years.That said, no controlled studies have been conducted using CharcoCaps®. This study will investigate the effects of ingesting CharcoCaps® before and following the meal on the amount of gas produced, the number of flatus events, and associated symptoms of GI distress during the 6-hour post meal ingestion period.
The purpose was to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a Diabetes Survival Skills intervention training with and without a support group for incarcerated persons transitioning to the community. Feasibility will include limited efficacy testing to examine the effect of the DSS+ intervention on diabetes knowledge, self-efficacy, outcome expectancies, and diabetes-related distress.
FitSitt is an innovative device tailored to older adults that increases the convenience of breaking up sedentary activity and incorporating physical activity into in-home daily routines. This comprehensive seating solution merges features of a posture chair, exercise machine, rehabilitation tool, and activity tracker. Its primary purpose is to reduce daily immobile time, offering users a convenient means for replacing sedentary bouts with varying intensities of physical activity, ultimately leading to improved health. FitSitt aims to improve the baseline activity profile of its users by providing a comprehensive wellness solution including a non-disruptive in-home means for physical activity engagement while allowing users to continue participation in desired seated activities. In so doing, FitSitt has the potential to decrease health-harmful sedentary activity in a wide variety of high-risk individuals and occupational contexts. The initial development of FitSitt for this Phase I proposal, however, will target community-dwelling older adults. Co-led by Activ Sitting, Inc. and USC, Phase I will include three study phases (i.e., focus group, in-lab testing, in-home testing) to determine user acceptability, feasibility of procedures, safety, and preliminary efficacy to affect health and behavior outcomes. Clinical trial activities occur within the in-home testing stage and will focus on user acceptability and preliminary efficacy to affect health and behavioral outcomes. This information will be used along with other information collected from the overall study to redesign and enhance the current FitSitt prototype and prepare the system to be tested in a fully powered Phase II study of the enhanced FitSitt's efficacy to improve health in community-living older people. As currently designed, FitSitt provides convenience, comfort, and health value-add for myriad older adults, ensuring scalability and sustainability of broad use across communities and markets. This project will facilitate the development of an optimized, in-home, comprehensive sedentary activity solution for older adults and countless other populations that could benefit from reducing the deleterious health effects of extended inactive behavior through convenient and comfortable-to-use intervention.
This study is for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and who smoke. Investigators are trying to find out if training on e-cigarette use will help smokers switch to e-cigarettes. If training helps, how much training is needed for people to fully switch from cigarettes to e-cigarettes?
The present study will compare the effect of Manapol to DaltonMax on select measures of health. Currently, both ingredients are sold both as a stand-alone dietary supplement and as an active ingredient within various multi-nutrient products. Immune function will be assessed using blood samples to determine white blood cell counts and distributions, and cytokine levels with/without lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge. Additionally, effects specific to antioxidant function and glucose regulation, glucose, insulin, lipid peroxidation, and advanced oxidation protein products will be observed. Antioxidant capacity will also be measured. as well as completion of weekly questionnaires regarding gut health, and microbiome analysis.
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of imlunestrant (LY3484356) when administered orally on the levels of midazolam in the blood stream in healthy women of non-childbearing potential. The study will also evaluate the safety and tolerability of imlunestrant in healthy women of non-childbearing potential. This study will last up to approximately 6 weeks for each participant including the screening period.
Low physical activity levels contribute to African American men experiencing health disparities across a number of chronic diseases. Studies have been effective in increasing physical activity levels in African American men; but few have targeted maintenance of behavior change and none have utilized emerging technologies. The purpose of the current study is to further develop a mobile phone application for African American men that will help them initiate and maintain their physical activity levels.
The overarching goal of the "SMART Optimization of a Parenting Program for Active-Duty Families" study is to advance the "development, adaptation, efficiency or optimization, and testing of a prevention intervention by using a sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trial/SMART to test multiple components of an empirically-supported parent training prevention intervention - After Deployment Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT) for active-duty families negotiating multiple deployments and high deployment OPTEMPO (an army program that provides critical responses).
This study will test the relative efficacy of high-risk messages in increasing flu shot rates in patients at moderately high risk for flu and complications (those in the top 11-20% of risk). It will also examine whether informing patients that their high-risk status was determined by analyzing their medical records or by an artificial intelligence (AI) / machine-learning (ML) algorithm analyzing their medical records will affect the likelihood of receiving a flu vaccine.
The purpose of this study is to test which modalities (mailed letter, short message service [SMS] text, or patient portal messages) are most effective for encouraging flu shots in high-risk patients.