There are about 9403 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Switzerland. 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.
A retrospective cohort study to explore the impact of the FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar on paediatric emergency department attendance at two tertiary centres during unprecedent winter viral epidemics.
The goals of this clinical trial are 1) to estimate the number of professional caregivers and the time spent to carry out the non-pharmacological therapies for people with dementia and 2) to evaluate differences between professional caregivers trained and non-trained to non-pharmacological therapies for people with dementia in term of caregivers' burnout and well-being of people with dementia living in nursing home. The main questions it aims to answer are: - How long does it take professional caregivers to implement and carry out non-pharmacological therapies? - How many caregivers are needed to start and carry out non-pharmacological therapies? - Do the non-pharmacological therapies improve the quality of life of people with dementia? - Do the non-pharmacological therapies reduce behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia? - Do the non-pharmacological therapies improve professional caregiver burnout, sense of competence and ethical climate in nursing home? - Do the non-pharmacological therapies reduce family caregivers' stress? Participants will attend ten sessions: - five theoretical meetings on dementia and non-pharmacological therapies; - five supervision meetings on the methodology for implementing non-pharmacological therapies based on discussions of cases. The investigators will compare the experimental group with an usual care control group to see if there are improvements in term of the quality of life of the resident perceived by the team, professional caregivers burnout, sense of competence of the carers and the ethical climate at the workplace.
To analyze driving behavior of individuals under the influence of alcohol while driving in a real car. Based on the in-vehicle variables, the investigators aim at establishing algorithms capable of discriminating sober and drunk driving using machine learning.
It is very difficult to quantify menstrual blood loss, the reference method is a tedious one. This is a problem, as it is not conducive to objectively measuring menstrual blood loss and understanding the contribution of menstrual iron loss to iron deficiency anemia. With this study, the investigators aim to investigate iron loss during the menstrual cycle and aim to validate a much simpler technique.
The aim of the current project is to develop and test Ecological Momentary Interventions (EMIs) to promote and improve stress resilience, specifically, an EMI to increase positive reappraisal. EMIs are mostly smartphone-based applications that deliver interventions to people as they go about in their daily lives. The EMI tested here is based on theoretical and empirical findings and consists of several items and repeated training using various individual scenarios from participants' life that will be presented to participants via an app on their smartphones. This study tests the efficacy of the EMI on a change in (i) reappraisal and (ii) indices of perceived stress. One hundred twenty healthy student participants, aged 18-29 will be invited to the study. Participants will be screened and those who score below 13 points of reappraisal skills in a Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, will be included in the study. This is necessary in order to avoid a ceiling effect on reappraisal skills, which may be high in students. Then, the participants will be randomly assigned to experimental (reappraisal EMI in regular and burst design) and control conditions (control EMA) and fill in questionnaires. The reappraisal EMI groups will be taught reappraisal skills and will be asked to apply them to personal situations repeatedly. The control EMA group will have the same app consisting of Ecological Momentary Assessment only. The training will last 21 consecutive days and the app will send (i) 5 prompts per day to ask about the current mood of the user in control and both experimental groups and (ii) at least two prompts per day resulting in a total of min. 42 reappraisal training sessions in the regular experimental group or 28 reappraisal training sessions in the burst experimental group. What is more, every participant has the possibility to trigger the EMA or EMI anytime they wish to. After using the app, participants will fill in some questionnaires again. The whole study will be conducted remotely (Video calls and app use) to avoid unnecessary COVID-related risks for participants.
This study looks at the safety and effectiveness of MP0420 in treating COVID-19 in people who have been hospitalized with the infection. Participants in the study will be treated with either MP0420 plus current standard of care (SOC), or with placebo plus current SOC. This is ACTIV-3/TICO Treatment Trial H5.
This study looks at the safety and effectiveness of BRII-196/BRII-198 in treating COVID-19 in people who have been hospitalized with the infection. Participants in the study will be treated with either BRII-196/BRII-198 plus current standard of care (SOC), or with placebo plus current SOC. This is ACTIV-3/TICO Treatment Trial H3.
This study looks at the safety and effectiveness of VIR-7831 in treating COVID-19 in people who have been hospitalized with the infection. Participants in the study will be treated with either VIR-7831 plus current standard of care (SOC), or with placebo plus current SOC. This is ACTIV-3/TICO Treatment Trial H2.
The investigators are doing this project to investigate potential neurophysiological synergy effects between mindfulness meditation and psychedelics. Previous studies have found that both mindfulness and psychedelics like psilocybin modulate neural activity and connectivity of the same brain network. However, little is known about the potential interactions between mindfulness meditation and psychedelics. The indigenous plant preparation "Ayahuasca" is particularly interesting for the combination with mindfulness meditation. It contains two components, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and harmine, which are very similar to the body's own messenger substance serotonin and increase its effect in the body. The investigators would now like to find out how these corresponding networks change in experienced meditators after DMT/Harmine-enhanced mindfulness meditation and how this affects their subjective experience. For this functional MRI imaging will be performed, as well as psychometric assessments and detailed experiential interviews before and after a three-day meditation retreat. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. One group receives DMT and harmine during the sitting meditation on the second day, the other group receives a corresponding placebo. Neither the participants nor the investigator know who will receive a placebo or the combination of DMT/harmine on the day of the experiment. The pre- and post-measurements of the MRI imaging and psychometric questionnaires of the DMT/Harmine group are compared with those of the placebo control group. By examining the synergistic effects of mindfulness meditation and DMT/harmine, the aim of this study is to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the neurophenomenology of rare and inaccessible phenomena of consciousness.
This study aims to compare two different spinal manual therapy interventions of the back to determine if they are viable and acceptable for a future study investigating the treatment of patients with back pain. The two proposed spinal manual therapy interventions are widely used in the fields of chiropractic, physical therapy, osteopathy, and manual medicine to treat back pain and improve function. This is a randomized study, meaning that participants are randomly assigned (like tossing a coin) to one of two manual spinal therapy interventions.