There are about 10560 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Taiwan. 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.
Hemodialysis is currently the most commonly used renal replacement therapy. Compared with arteriovenous graft, central venous catheter, and autologous arteriovenous fistula, the possibility of postoperative re-dredging is low and there are few complications, so isometric hand exercise training is the first choice for hemodialysis strategy. The intervention of smart technology has greatly improved the treatment effect and quality of life of patients, and it has unique advantages when applied to health care or behavior change intervention programs. This study expects to enhance hand grip strength through interactive hand exercise games combined with grip strength equipment, thereby increasing the vascular maturity of patients with postoperative autologous arteriovenous fistula, and enhancing the motivation of patients to participate.
Background: With the trend of aging population and increasing demand for long-term care, Taiwan's long-term care 2.0 policy places special emphasis on home care services to achieve the goal of local aging. This study focused on the health-promoting behaviors home care attendants and applied Pender's health promotion model theory to investigate the impact of home care attendants' self-perceived health and health literacy on health-promoting behaviors. Objective: To investigate the current status of home care attendants' health-promoting behaviors and the correlation between self-perceived health and health literacy. Methodology: A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 150 eligible home care attendants in the northern region using self-perceived health, health literacy, and health-promoting behaviors scales. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the correlation between the independent variables and the dependent variables. Expected contribution: The results of this study will help to understand the current status of health-promoting behaviors of home care attendants and the correlation with their self-perceived health and health literacy. It will also help to understand whether home care attendants have sufficient health literacy to maintain or improve their health status, and to understand the areas in which home care attendants' health-promoting behaviors are still inadequate, so as to suggest effective methods or strategies to improve health-promoting behaviors in the future.
Clinical reasoning is an important cognitive process in medical decision making. In recent years, medical education advocates holistic medicine, but systematic learning is rare in school education.Therefore, this study used an empathy experience course to conduct a case-oriented clinical reasoning training course to improve the empathy and clinical reasoning skills of pre-clinical students in occupational therapy through four sessions.
Assessment of the motor and sensory integrative functions (MSI) is a key component of an overall health and functional evaluation for school-aged children with intellectual disabilities (ID). An efficient and in-depth understanding of the students' motor and sensory integrative functions can help the school teachers implementing appropriate curriculum, monitoring the progress, managing the classroom, and further enhancing the overall learning for school-aged students with ID. Therefore, in this 2-year project, the investigators will develop a mobile application (APP) testing system for assessing Motor and Sensory Integrative Functions in School-aged Children with Intellectual Disabilities (MSI-ID) to overcome the aforementioned challenges. The investigators will determine whether the MSI-ID is efficient and psychometrically robust. Around150 to 200 school-aged children with ID will be recruited for this study.
This is an open-label, randomized, multi-center study in patients with chronic HBV and HDV co-infection.
Robotic surgery is one of the most popular minimally invasive procedures for patients with coronary artery disease or valvular diseases. Studies have shown that, as compared to conventional sternotomy, patients underwent robot-assisted bypass grafting or valvuloplasty had less post-operation pain, blood transfusion volume during operation, re-operation rate, post-operation stroke rate and length of hospitalization. However, most studies focused on the comparison of complications of different procedures, and the investigation of cardiopulmonary function recovery is still lacking. Thus our study is to compare the functional outcomes between patients that undergo different surgical procedures.
Introduction In the past, it was found that stimulating the meridians and acupoints with low-level light often had a good effect. However, for safety reasons, most instruments such as laser acupuncture devices still need to be used by medical personnel, and it is difficult to apply to insomnia patients at bed-time or the first sleep cycle, these two periods have a considerable impact on sleep quality. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide a safer wearable light-therapy device for Insomnia patients, so that it can be used in home sleep situations, and the improvement of subjects' sleep qualtity and meridian energy will be evaluated by PSG, HRV parameters, sleep questionnaires, and Ryodoraku value (reflects the meridian electric resistance). Methods Aim1: To evaluate whether the subjects are more relaxed by observing the changes in heart rate and meridian energy of healthy subjects after low-level light irradiating to Shenmen, Daling, Neiguan (acupoints for insomnia). We also consider the difference of light source and the skin color in experiment design. Aim2: To assess whether the insomnia patients' sleep quality has improved after applying the wearable light therapy device to subjects' bed-time (include the first sleep cycle). We use PSG, sleep questionnaires, stroop test for evaluation.
The investigators will clarify rate of electromyography (EMG) rise and rate of force development in overhead athletes on scapular muscles, including upper trapezius, lower trapezius and serratus anterior. The correlation between rate of EMG rise and rate of force development will also be examined.
To investigate the therapeutic effects of family workshops on children with global developmental delays and their parents by the analysis of the previously conducted workshops.
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation is a class I recommendation for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients. However, participate rate of outpatient rehabilitation is quite low and remains a global issue. The study is to propose a strategy in order to encourage post-ACS patients to participate in the outpatient cardiac rehabilitation.