There are about 11304 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Denmark. 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.
Aim: To describe the duration of desaturation and bradypnea in postoperative opioid-naïve and chronic opioid patients. Patients: 691 patients included from two previous WARD (Wireless Assessment of Respiratory and circulatory Distress) projects. Outcome: Respiratory deviations four hours after opioid administration
This study aims to investigate the long-term effects (2.5 years after post-intervention) of a preventive family-based intervention (VIA Family) compared with treatment as usual (TAU) for children of parents with a severe mental illness. Background: Children of parents with a mental illness have an increased lifetime risk of developing a mental illness themselves. Preventive interventions for families with children with high familial risk can potentially disrupt the transgenerational transmission. The current study is a follow-up study of a trial investigating the effect of the preventive intervention: the VIA Family trial. The VIA Family trial investigated the superiority of a preventive family-based intervention, VIA Family, compared with treatment as usual (TAU) in improving children's, parents' and families' functioning and well-being. Eligible families had at least one parent with a lifetime severe mental illness diagnosis ( i.e. recurrent major or moderate depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia spectrum disorder), at least one child between the ages of 6-12 years and lived within the Frederiksberg or Copenhagen (Denmark). The trial had a randomized, two-armed, parallel and controlled design. The participating families were randomly assigned to both groups with an allocation ratio of 1:1. The current study is a follow-up study aiming to explore the effect of the intervention 2.5 years after post-intervention. The main research questions for the current follow-up study are: 1. Do children participating in the VIA Family intervention experience a greater decrease in symptoms of mental illness from baseline (timepoint 0) to long-term follow-up (timepoint 2) compared with children allocated to TAU? 2. Do parents participating in the VIA Family intervention experience a greater decrease in perceived parental stress from baseline (timepoint 0) to long-term follow-up (timepoint 2) compared with parents allocated to TAU?
During the Covid-19 pandemic, admission patterns for infections other than Covid-19 have changed dramatically among children worldwide. Particularly admissions due to respiratory infections and later invasive streptococcal infections have been well documented. However, few studies have compared rates af gastro-intestinal infections during the pandemic with the previous years. This study aims to compare the number and characteristics of children hospitalized with gastrointestinal infections before the COVID-19 pandemic, to the first strict lockdown in 2020 and to the second, less strict lockdown in 2021. A retrospective review of medical records will be performed, of patients aged 1 month to 5 years admitted with gastroenteritis at the pediatric department at Slagelse Hospital in Denmark over a period from 2017 to 2021.
Homeostatic plasticity is a mechanism that stabilizes neuronal activity to prevent excessive nervous system excitability. This mechanism can be investigated in humans by applying two blocks of non-invasive brain stimulation, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). In healthy subjects, homeostatic plasticity induction over the primary motor cortex increases the amplitude of motor-evoked potentials after the first block of excitatory tDCS, which then decreases after the second block of excitatory tDCS. However, this mechanism is impaired in chronic and experimental pain, demonstrated by an increase in excitability instead of a reversal. The role of homeostatic plasticity mechanisms in pain is yet to be unraveled, but homeostatic plasticity may hold an important role in pain development or persistence. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate if the cortical nociceptive response reflected by contact heat stimulation (CHEPs) is regulated by homeostatic mechanisms. For this, homeostatic plasticity will be induced in both the primary motor (M1) and sensory cortices (S1). The first research question will explore if the contact heat evoked potentials are homeostatically regulated and if this regulation is occurring locally or globally in the cortex. Additionally, it will be investigated if and how capsaicin-induced nociception interacts and effects the homeostatic response as reflected by CHEPs.
Asparaginase is a cornerstone in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Clinical hypersensitivity reactions and PEG-asparaginase inactivation is common (12-13% of the patients on the NOPHO (Nordic Society for Paediatric Haematology and Oncology) ALL2008 protocol) and has become even more frequent after changing to the current Western European ALL Treatment protocol ALLTogether, despite the PEG coat, leading to increased asparaginase clearance and treatment truncation. Suboptimal anticancer therapy occurs in an additional 3-4% of the patients, who encounter expedited asparaginase clearance but no allergy symptoms (silent inactivation). The aim of this study is to validate and potentially refine an already existing PEG-asparaginase pharmacokinetic model on data from patients treated according to the A2G main protocol.
There are no validated scores in Danish revealing symptoms related to anal incontinence (AI). The International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Bowel (ICIQ-B) is an internationally recommended questionnaire that contains 21 items of which 17 are scored in three subscales: Bowel pattern; Bowel control and Quality of life. The aim was to translate and validate the ICIQ-B into Danish. The translation will be performed by a multidisciplinary team and the investigators will perform cognitive interviews and online testing of the questionnaire. The study only involves testing of a questionnaire and will not interfere with patient treatment.
The occurence of traveler's constipation is sparsely covered in the medical litterature. This study aims to determine the gastrointestinal-related discomforts related to traveling on a trip to Turkey.
Tracheostomy is performed for prolonged mechanical ventilation. Ineffective bandaging following decannulation leaves the tracheostomy wound unsealed, reducing pulmonary function, coughing ability, and voice quality, ultimately leading to decannulation failure. Recently, a new concept enabling intratracheal sealing of the tracheotomy was introduced, potentially solving the issues of air leakage and tracheal wound infection. This study aims to investigate the feasibility of intratracheal tracheostomy sealing in relation to an immediate normalization of physiological airway flow and an improved voice quality.
Doppler ultrasound is generally considered to provide reliable femoral blood flow measurements between rest and exercise, and the blood flow response to exercise is widely believed to be reduced in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the test-retest reliability of the method during one-leg knee extensor exercise has not previously been compared between matched healthy individuals.
Vaccines and subcutanoeus immunotherapy vaccines often contains aluminium, and may induce itching granulomas at the injection site. This is usually diagnosed by patch testing. Another way of detecting metal allergy is by investigation metal-specific cells in the blood. We include participants both with and without granulomas, all have a blood test taken where we investigate if any participants have aluminium-specific cirkulation cells, and whether we can detect a difference between participants with and without granulomas.