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Filter by:1. Clinical trial title：Efficacy and safety of Ningmitai capsule alone or combined with celecoxib in the treatment of Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CP/CPPS): A prospective, randomized, double-blind, multicenter clinical study 2. Version number/date：1.1/2023-10-09 3. Principal investigator：Zhou Huiliang 4. Main research units：The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University 5. Clinical trial start and end dates：2023/07/01-2025/12/31 6. Objective: To evaluate whether Ningmitai capsule(NMT) alone or combined with Celecoxib for 6 weeks is more effective than Celecoxib in improving pain symptoms of CP/CPPS patients. 7. Study type: Interventional study 8. Total sample size:240 9. Inclusion criteria: （1）Age: male patients aged 18-60 years; （2）Long-term and repeated pelvic discomfort or pain (NIH-CPSI pain score ≥ 4 points), lasting more than 3 months, may be accompanied by different degrees of urination symptoms and sexual dysfunction; （3）Negative bacterial in urine before and after prostate massage; （4）Voluntarily participate in the trial. 10、Exclusion criteria: 1. Utilize any drugs for the treatment of chronic prostatitis in the past 2 weeks; 2. Patients who have received prostate surgery and treatment; 3. Urine WBC ≥ 5/HP, urinary system infection within 12 months, and effective antibiotic treatment in the early stage; 4. Pelvic pain and voiding dysfunction caused by non-prostatitis factors. 5. Suffering from serious primary cardiovascular disease, liver disease, kidney disease, hematological disease, lung disease or other serious diseases such as tumors or AIDS; 6. Significant adverse events in clinical or laboratory examination. 7. Allergic to the components of the test drugs or sulfa; 8. Previous active peptic ulcer / bleeding; 9. A birth plan within the past 8 months; 10. Legally disabled patients or psychiatric patients; 11. Suspected or confirmed alcohol or drug abuse, or other conditions that reduce the possibility of enrollment； 12. Participating in other clinical trials; 13. Considered unsuitable for enrollment by the investigator. 11、Interventions: （1）Ningmitai group （2）Celecoxib group （3）Combination group
Objectives The aim of this intervention is to assess how well and how efficiently the O2O Service Model works in delivering primary healthcare and managing chronic diseases for patients living in Pyeongchang-gun at the local government level. Trial design This is a randomized controlled trial with restricted, batch, blocked and individual random assignment. Investigators will allocate 1,000 participants from Pyeongchang-gun into two groups: one with diabetes (and pre-diabetes) and one with hypertension (including borderline cases), focusing on poorly controlled patients. As participants visit local health centers, their data will be sent to the research team for blocked randomization based on disease type, severity, and region. Assignment results will be communicated back to the centers and patients. Study setting The intervention will take place in Pyeongchang-gun, Kangwon-do, South Korea. The Smart Healthcare Center affiliated to Public Medical Center of Pyeongchang will primarily manage the O2O service by providing necessary education and human resources while receiving and monitoring data from each participant and local medical centers. The overall study (including the design of trial) is managed by Seoul National University College of Medicine while the provision of O2O service and data collection are primarily in charge of Smart Healthcare Center of Pyeongchang. Intervention in O2O Service Model: After initial health exams, each patient gets a custom care plan, classifying their disease and care level. The Pyeongchang Smart Healthcare Center, with doctors, tracks patients via an online platform, sending automated health messages. High-risk patients receive a two-week glucose monitor and guidance on lifestyle adjustments. Doctors access patient health records through the participant's personal online datastore (POD), with consent, integrating health and prescription history from national insurance, and can assess heart disease risk. Sample size The trial's sample size is determined using the MDES(Minimum Detectable Effect Size), with 1,000 participants divided equally between diabetes and hypertension groups. Each group is then split into treatment and control subgroups through random allocation. The MDES calculation, accounting for an explained outcome variation of 50% due to blocking and controls, and based on 500 subjects per group with equal allocation, aims for a high-accuracy effect size of 0.216 at a 5% significance level and 80% power. Assignment of interventions: allocation Participants will be randomly placed into groups by a computer program. This study uses a specific randomization method that is restricted and organized by individual characteristics. The research team will tell the centers and patients about their group assignment via phone and email. Neither the healthcare staff nor the participants will know the group allocation beforehand. The research team is in charge of the randomization process and informing everyone involved. The staff at Pyeongchang's Smart Healthcare Center will sign up participants and manage their placement into the assigned intervention groups. There will be no blinding after participants are assigned to their groups. List of Data For the study, the investigators have created questionnaires and interview formats to collect various data types, including random assignment records, baseline information, outcomes, service usage and costs, demographic and health details, physician-collected health records, life-log data from apps or web, clinical exam results, and service effectiveness and efficiency from the perspective of medical staff and administrators. Statistical methods For the analysis of primary and secondary outcomes, the investigators will employ ITT(Intention-to-Treat) and Regression-Adjusted Impact Estimate. When data allows (especially data from control group), the investigators will also conduct timeseries effect analysis. To investigate the time-series changes in program effects across multiple time points, the dependent variable (outcome variable) should be measured at each time point to estimate program effects repeatedly. Data management and monitoring The data management for the study will be conducted using electronic systems for secure and accurate data entry, coding, and storage, with robust checks and backups to ensure data quality, which will be archived for three years in compliance with bioethics standards before disposal according to privacy regulations. Participant confidentiality is prioritized through secure data collection and restricted access, with sharing only to authorized research team members and regulators using password protection or encryption. Additionally, a dedicated Data Monitoring Committee will oversee trial progress and adherence to protocols, while the Smart Healthcare Center collaborates with healthcare workers to manage patient services, with minimal adverse events expected.
The goal of this interventional study is to evaluate the impact of the use of a connected impedance scale on the physical and mental quality of life of patients suffering from chronic diseases and participating in a physical activity rehabilitation program. The main objective is to know if a regular monitoring of the evolution of body composition parameters recorded by the connected scale would allow patients participating in the Physical Activity rehabilitation program at Hôtel-Dieu to follow in real time the effects of such program, not on weight itself but on body composition, and that this would contribute to a better perception of physical and mental quality of life at the end of the program 90 Participants will be randomized in two groups : - Control group (N = 45) : routine care - Interventionnal group (N=45) : routine care + use of connected scale All participants will undergo physical activity rehabilitation program during 6 weeks. Patients will be see again at 6 months, and the following parameters will be comparer between the two groups : - SF-36 questionnaire - Ricci & Gagnon questionnaire - 6MWT - 30 sec sit-to stand test - Ito-Shirado test - Sorensen test - Handgrip test - MaxV02
The Narrative Intervention for Chronic Illness-Heart Failure (NICI-HF) offers an asynchronous interactive text behavioral health intervention to advance behavioral health equity by facilitating access to care for people adjusting to living with heart failure (HF). The proposed study will recruit up to 70 people living with heart failure. This study will gain insight into living with heart failure and learn if the narrative-based intervention is feasible and acceptable for people living with heart failure. The study has two specific aims: Aim 1: Evaluate the effects of NICI-HF intervention on standard behavioral outcomes. The study investigators will review depression with the Personal Health Questionnaire-9 (primary) and anxiety with the General Anxiety Disorder-7 (secondary) outcomes, and explore self-care with the Self Care for Heart Failure Index by comparing the sham control (n=30) and NICI-HF intervention (n=30) groups at baseline, three months, and six months. Aim 2: Refine NICI-HF for feasibility and acceptability to support HF self-care and burdensome symptom management and to increase behavioral health equity by improving proximity to services. The study investigators will use the RE-AIM21 framework to tailor the intervention for HF using qualitative semi-structured interviews and mixed methods analysis. The study investigators will refine and manualize the intervention for future R01 testing across chronic illnesses with diverse and marginalized populations and service delivery models.
The objective of this study is to widely implement and evaluate the Care Transitions App in a randomized controlled trial. The app the investigators designed for patients with multiple chronic conditions has four envisioned modules: 1) falls-reduction content, 2) a digital post-discharge transitional care plan (e.g., after hospital care plan, including education, medications, follow-up appointments, warning signs to watch for, nutrition, and other care plan activities), 3) a new module for patients with MCC (diabetes, congestive heart failure, and chronic kidney disease) including condition-specific post-discharge care plans with relevant symptom management activities, 4) a new post-discharge report module which summarizes key care transition findings and allows for patients to enter notes and questions for their providers and their own goals for recovery.
Developed nations worldwide are currently enduring a health crisis, as chronic diseases continue to decrease quality of life and promote additional disease states or even death for much of the population. Rural populations are at a particular disadvantage, as they lack access to health clubs, wellness programs and similar resources that are more available in urban areas. Although pharmaceutical therapies have continued to show therapeutic advancements, the rates of disease onset and death from chronic disease has not seen similar improvements, and in fact continue to worsen. Excitingly, significant evidence has been published demonstrating an affordable, effective treatment to directly treat and prevent these chronic diseases, but few have demonstrated successful implementation of this therapy, which is improved lifestyle. Specifically, physical activity and healthy body composition are powerful therapeutics that have been demonstrated to effectively combat and prevent chronic diseases. Additionally, improving these lifestyle factors are often more effective than pharmaceutical interventions without the wide range of side effects. Unfortunately, barriers exist on multiple tiers in the practice of family medicine that demote the implementation of lifestyle medicine. To better serve patients at risk of, or suffering from chronic disease, the investigators are seeking to establish a lifestyle medicine prescription program for rural West Virginia. This program will provide patient education on the benefits of physical activity, body composition, and help patients identify strategies to implement healthy lifestyle choices that can be sustainable for the long-term. Patients will be advised on local opportunities to increase physical activity (yoga studio, martial arts, fitness facilities, aquatic center, etc.) and provided access to the facilities they are most likely to adhere to regularly. They will also be provided training on exercise techniques, equipment, and facilities to increase familiarity and comfort in these settings.
Objective: To evaluate and compare the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a Virtual Community of Practice (VCoP) via a web-based application versus individual and self-administered online education to improve the activation of middle-aged people with multimorbidity. Design: Randomized controlled pragmatic clinical trial with two parallel arms and 18 months follow-up. Setting: Primary health centres and hospitals (Catalonia, Madrid, and the Canary Islands). Population: Middleaged people (30-60 years old) with multimorbidity (≥=2 chronic diseases). Sample size: 240 patients. Randomization: all participants will be randomly assigned to the intervention (VCoP) or the active control group. Data analysis will be blinded to intervention allocation. Intervention: The intervention group will be offered participation for 12 months in a VCoP based on a gamified web-based application. The control group will receive individual, content-focused education through a web platform that will cover the same topics as the VCoP but will be self-administered and without social interaction within the platform. Measurements: The main variable will be measured using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) questionnaire at baseline, 6, 12 and 18 months. Secondary variables: participant sociodemographics, depression (PHQ-9), anxiety (HADS-A), treatment burden (TBQ), quality of life (EQ-5D-5L), variables related to the use of health resources and to the use of the VCoP. Analysis: Mixed-effects linear regression will be used to determine the effects of the VCoP on the changes in patient activation. Scores at baseline, 6, 12 and 18 months will be included as a fixed effect variable, and the patient and health professional as random effect variables. Analyses will be performed on an intention-to-treat basis. An economic evaluation will be carried out to analyze the cost-effectiveness of the VCoP compared to active control, from the National Health System and social perspectives.
This study seeks to answer the fundamental questions of which initial, first-line weight loss intervention should be offered to older adults with obesity and multiple chronic conditions and how to address the high non-response rates observed with most conventional strategies. A sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trial (SMART) design will permit the evaluation of treatment combinations that maximize weight loss and will provide data on constructing a future tailored, adaptive intervention. If successful, these findings will identify interventions that could markedly improve health and quality of life of these older adults, reduce long-term disability, and lower healthcare costs
In this study, the investigators are interested in the Medissimo nurse application, which is a medication monitoring application for the elderly dedicated to self-employed nurses. The aim is to estimate the consistency of the measure of medication compliance assessed by this application with reference measures, as well as the user experience of healthcare professionals with this application.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for 1 out of every 5 deaths, is the number one killer of Americans, killing about 700K US adults per year (1). Our proposed research is a clinical trial that will determine the effects of feeding California freeze-dried grapes (which are directly comparable to fresh table grapes), on cardiovascular and chronic disease risk factors, namely, blood glucose and lipids (total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, and triacylglycerides), electrolyte and blood indicators (such as sodium, calcium, potassium, etc.), c-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) (measures of inflammation and CVD risk), body composition (body weight, body fat percentage, lean tissue weight, body water amount and Kcal requirement to maintain body composition status), and blood pressure (BP) in 30 adults. The investigators will test satiety and hunger to see if grape antioxidants decrease both, implying that there will be a decrease in caloric intake and result in body composition improvements.