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Filter by:Using the MOST framework, factorial pilot design, and an iterative, community-based process, the purpose of this study is to pilot test to further develop and refine a palliative care (PC) intervention addressing pain of Black adults (age > 18) with advanced HF. Thirty-six persons with advanced heart failure (HF) will be randomized to receive one of 16 conditions (different combinations of navigator coach-delivered PC pain intervention components).
The goal of this quasi-experimental study is to test the effectiveness of a digital health program designed to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in employees within a workplace setting in Thailand. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Can a digital health program help participants lose weight? - Does the digital health program improve other health outcomes such as Body Mass Index (BMI), blood lipid levels (triglycerides and LDL), blood sugar levels (HbA1c or fasting plasma glucose), and blood pressure? Is the digital health program feasible and acceptable in the Thai workplace setting, as measured by participation rates, usage, and participant satisfaction? Participants will: - Attend four group health education sessions, each lasting one hour, scheduled over a six-month period. - Have unlimited access to individual chat consultations with a healthcare team, including doctors, dietitians, fitness coaches, and psychologists, available from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on workdays, excluding public holidays.
- Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) can accelerated the aging process and increase the frailty condition - The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is the gold standard in the geriatric clinical context - Recently, in Italy the first Guidelines about the CGA in different settings for older people has been pubblicated - The CGA can identify older people at high risk of frailty who can benefit from a personalized prevention program - No studies has been investigated the effects of a personalized prevention program (PPP) based on the CGA in a primary care setting - The main hypothesis is that the CGA assessment can result in personalized prevention programs for older subjects in primary care settings with an effect in reducing the hospitalization rate and can be related to the biological paramters in NCDs
The goal of this observational study is to learn about the impact of long COVID on people who have multiple (two or more) pre-existing long-term conditions (such as diabetes and asthma). The main question it aims to answer is: • How does long COVID impact the lives of adults living with multiple pre-existing long-term conditions and what are their rehabilitation needs? Participants will be asked to: - Take photos of things they feel represent the impact of long COVID on their day-to-day lives across seven days and, - Take part in an interview to discuss the impact of long COVID.
Accidental falls in older adults are one of the world's major pubic health problem, because of their strong association with injuries and mortality rates. In Quebec, falls are responsible for a high rate of hospitalization (more than 1800 emergency department visits every day) and deaths (more than 10,000 in recent years). Preventing falls is therefore a key mission for health professionals. This research program aims to develop a new clinical approach to the rehabilitation management of the older with a neuro-musculoskeletal disorder and a risk of falling. This program is part of a new partnership project between UQAC and specialized geriatric services at the CIUSSS Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean (La Baie site). These geriatric services admit more than 400 new patients per year, representing a large pool of participants for the new program's development. Specifically, this program has 4 phases: 1) Create a clinical profile of patients in rehabilitation care from specialized geriatric services (ex: reasons for consultation, neuro-musculoskeletal disorders, rates and causes of falls, etc.); 2) to diagnose functional deficits of these patients on different dimensions of functional and physical evaluations, using standardized tests and high-tech instruments (ex: platform of force); 3) determine the effectiveness of a new exercise intervention program (OTAGO) for falls prevention; and 4) Measure client and professional team satisfaction as well as long-term impact of this new approach used to prevent falls. The most significant impact of this new program will be to reduce public health expenditure for care of older adults with balance disorder and risk for falls; and therefore, be implanted in other CIUSSS institutions from Quebec.
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.