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.
The purpose of this study will establish total joint arthroplasty registry database in Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and collect patient-reported outcome.
Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) can be helpful to improve the psychiatric, emotional, physical,and social status in patients with physical and mental illness and the elderly. The study aims to investigate the effects of AAT program in middle-aged and older patients with schizophrenia. The investigators will recruit 40 patients with schizophrenia in psychiatric ward randomised into AAT group and control group. AAT group will complete the 12-week program. This study contains two assessment sessions before and after intervention, including PANSS, ACIS, MoCA-T, CHI, DASS‐21, CST, TUG and 5MWT.
Social cognition dysfunction (including emotional perception, theory of mind, and attribution bias) is a common dysfunction in serious mental illness, which may influence their life roles and daily functions. The social cognition and interaction training (SCIT) is a manual-guide group intervention that can apply to people with serious mental illness.Thus this study aims to conduct SCIT groups in Taiwan to investigate its feasibility and effectiveness. This study will include 30 clients. Investigators will randomly allot participants into two group, and conduct a crossover design. The experimental group will receive a 60-minutes manual-guide SCIT session each week for 20 times, which will be leaded by 2 licensed occupational therapists. After the intervention, investigators will analyze demographic data and compare the difference between experimental group and control group on the social cognition performance.
Bispectral index(BIS) is commonly used to monitor the depth of anesthesia. The electroencephalographic signal is collected and analyzed by the device, resulting a number related to the awareness of the patient. Electromyography is also recorded. The aim of the study is recording and analyzing the data of BIS and try to find it's relation to intraoperative neuromuscular blockade.
Using a double-blind, randomized controlled design to investigate the therapeutic effects of interactive attention training for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder who are receiving conventional rehabilitation programs due to developmental delay.
In recent decade, a major improvement in vitreoretinal surgery was the use of small gauge surgical systems that improved the safety of vitrectomy and also reduced the surgical time. However, there were still some concerns regarding small gauge vitrectomy system, especially 27-gauge system, in the stability of its instruments and the efficacy of removing vitreous during surgery. Although there were some studies that had reported the surgical outcomes of 27G vitrectomy system, none had focused on patients with high myopia. The highly myopic patients usually had thinner sclera, which was a risk factor for wound leakage after sutureless vitrectomy, they also had longer axial length which would make the surgical procedure more difficult especially in macular surgery. Based on previous clinical finding, gas leakage was 36.4% in 25G , while 27G sclerotomy showing less leakage comparing to larger gauge sclerotomy, the investigators believe 27G may have its clinical advantages in overcoming the thinner sclera of high myopia, and show the superiority of leakage control. Hypothesis: The 27G vitrectomy system has lower sclerotomy wound leakage rate compared with 25G system
The clinical study with UMC119-06 is designed to investigate the safety in patients with moderate acute respiratory distress syndrome ("ARDS"). This will be a dose escalation, open-label, single-center study in adult with ARDS. UMC119-06 is ex vivo cultured human umbilical cord derived mensenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSCs) product which is intended for treatment of ARDS.
Nosocomial infections are increasing rapidly both internationally and domestically, especially carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infections. However, there were still lack of evidence about the risk and prognosis in Taiwan. The choice of drug and related sensitivity test was also limited. We would analyze the infection risk, prognosis, and drug sensitivity of Klebsiella pneumoniae and focus on strategy to manage carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infections.
This is a single-blinded RCT evaluating the effect of robotic-assisted (RM) or conventional laparoscopic surgery (LM) in the management of uterine leiomyomas.
During pregnancy, hypertriglyceridemia is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, including gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus, large for gestational age (LGA), and preterm delivery. However, whether lifestyle intervention for hypertriglyceridemia during pregnancy improves pregnancy outcomes remains unknown. Therefore, we will conduct a randomized controlled trial to investigate this issue. At a tertiary medical center, we will enroll 70 pregnant women in this prospective, open-label, randomized controlled, pilot study comparing the effect of lifestyle intervention for hypertriglyceridemia versus control between Mar 2020 and Mar 2022. Pregnant women recruited will be randomized into two groups. The intervention group will receive lifestyle intervention; whereas the control group will receive regular surveillance only. Only intervention group will have diet education and exercise goal. They will go to dietitian OPD twice at GA 30-31+6 and 33-34+6 for Mediterranean diet education. As for exercise, participants in intervention group are asked to at least take 10000 steps 3 days a week. Diet modification and exercise intervention will persistent until delivery. The primary end point is the change of biomarkers of preeclampsia and macrosomia, including maternal blood PlGF and sFLT1, and cord blood c-peptide, leptin, IGF-1, IGF-2, IGF-BP1 and IGF-BP3. The secondary end points include the change of frequency of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including individual outcome and the composite outcome, such as gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, preterm delivery, and large for gestational age (defined as birth weight ≥ 90th percentile), change of maternal body weight, change of maternal blood pressure, which is defined as 3 mm-Hg, change of maternal HOMA2-IR, change of maternal plasma triglyceride level and other lipid profile (total cholesterol, HDL, and LDL), echography finding of fetus, neonatal birth weight, change of glucose, and lipid profile (total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, and TG) of fetus cord blood, placental expression of preeclampsia (PlGF, sFLT1) and growth factors (IGF-1, 2, BP1 and BP3).