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Filter by:The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the effectiveness of online self-management program and on-site task-related training for people with early stage Parkinson's disease. people with early stage of Parkinson's disease (age range: 45-70 years) will be randomly assigned into the following three groups: control group, online self-management program group and on-site task-related training group.The control group will receive no treatment during the experimental period. For the other two groups, participants will receive the intervention twice a week, one hour per session and 12 sessions in total. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. the potential impact of motor and non-motor symptoms on activity participation and quality of life for people with early stage of Parkinson's disease (PD). 2. compare and examine the the effectiveness of online self-management program and on-site task-related training for people with early stage Parkinson's disease on activity participation and quality of life.
This study is entitled Quality of Life for Carers through a Person-Centred Technological Solution, whose acronym is TechQoL4Carers. The goal of this pilot study is to develop an innovative technological solution (TechQoL4Carers) to improve the Quality of Life (QoL), occupational balance, impact of care, self-management of health, and empowerment of informal caregivers of older people or people with disability. The main question it aims to answer is: Will the routine use of TechQoL4Carers platform have a positive impact on the daily life of informal caregivers? The study will examine these variables in a specific way: QoL, impact of care and burden, occupational balance, health self-management, and empowerment. Informal caregivers will participate in a participatory process of development, testing and validation of the technological platform TechQoL4Carers. At the beginning and end of the study, participants will be asked to answer questionnaires to capture their perspective on the central variables of the study and on the utility and usability of the technology. Then, for three months, participants will: - use TechQoL4Carers platform on their mobile phone or computer, - wear the Xiaomi Smart Band 7/8, - provide weekly reports of health and care related quality of life, - and receive personalized recommendations and training materials. At the end, they will also participate in an in-depth interview on the impact of the project on their daily activities.
The study aims to determine the benefits of a web-based documentation and advice for elderly people and their caregivers. It is a randomized controlled trial with two arms (intervention, control). While the participants will be supported by a web-based application within the intervention, they will receive standard care only in the control. In addition, a follow-up until the end of the study will be realized.
Swallow and dual-task are a current issue and there are few studies on this subject. These studies have shown that as a result of dual-task interaction, swallowing is affected by attention and cognitive capacity, and dual-task negatively affects swallowing performance. But, studies include simple cognitive tasks and are not suitable for daily living activities. There is no study that compares all visual, auditory and motor dual tasks during swallowing and considers the effects on liquid, thick and solid foods similar to daily living activities. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of visual, auditory and motor dual-task on swallowing and chewing function in healthy young adults. As a result of the study, the dual-task that has the most impact on swallowing and chewing function will be determined, and visual, auditory and motor performance changes will be revealed as well as swallowing and chewing functions. It is planned that the results obtained will guide the rehabilitation of swallowing disorder with further studies on dual-task exercises.
Female survivors of domestic violence (DV) may exhibit various mental health problems. A variety of psychotherapies are available to improve their mental health, however there is uncertainty on which is the best. In Colombian, national guidelines do not mention which therapy should be used and in practice, psychologists use their preferred approaches. Due to the shortage of psychotherapy appointments, patients wait a long time to initiate treatment and for each subsequent appointment. Furthermore, patients with mental health problems often fail to attend their appointments and often drop-out of their psychotherapy. This study will offer an alternative intervention that is hypothesized to be superior to normal patient care in Colombia. It will be conducted in Cali and Tuluá, which have high levels of DV, internally displaced conflict victims and large socioeconomic inequalities. Psychologists and trained Lay Psychosocial Community Workers (LPCWs) will work together to provide a cognitive-behavioral intervention (CBI) for female survivors of DV, which is a therapy that aims to change the way people think and behave. Each woman will be offered 11 weekly sessions which will be shared between a psychologist and a LPCW. The LPCW will assign tasks to the patients which have been set by the psychologist and will assist participants to attend their appointments. The study´s hypothesis is: 1) A psychologist led CBI with LPCW support is superior to standard psychotherapy care in Colombian health services to improve mental health symptoms of female survivors of DV. Patients will be recruited from health services and will be randomly assigned to either the standard psychotherapy or the CBI with LPCW support (intervention group). In the standard psychotherapy group, patients will receive psychotherapy approximately every four weeks, depending on demand, and will have as many sessions as they require. In the intervention group, patients will be offered eleven weekly CBI sessions. Mental health questionnaires will be used to measure the study participants' mental health symptoms, their functionality, experience of DV and other forms of violence. In the intervention group, these questionnaires will be applied before initiating psychotherapy, two weeks and six months after completing their psychotherapy. Patients in the control group will have questionnaires applied before commencing psychotherapy and fourteen weeks and twenty-two weeks after starting.