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 was to understand women with low arched feet, flat feet, or BMI> 29 in the third trimester.
In this project, investigators plan to conduct a randomized control trial of a weight loss intervention that is remotely delivered via SNS among the obese adult patients (20-64 years old, BMI ≥ 27 kg/m2) recruited from weight control clinic in a tertiary medical center in Taipei. Investigators will survey the participants' baseline characteristics at different dimensions including personal, behavioral, physiological, socio-environmental factors. Participants will be randomly assigned to a 16-week weight loss program of either enhanced intervention via Facebook group or standard intervention. After the intervention, the participants will be followed until 2 years after enrollment. Investigators will measure participants' change in weight as well as change in attitude, behavior, and physiological along the follow-up periods. Investigators proposed specific study aims as following: (1) Demonstrate the characteristics of the obese patient who visiting weight-control clinics at behavioral level, physiological level, and social level. (2) Implement an enhanced weight loss intervention by using SNS with personalized feedback (3) Investigate the social influence and the interaction between participants in the social networking site (4) Test the hypothesis that, compared with a standard behavioral weight loss intervention, the enhanced intervention would result in greater weight loss and physical benefit (5) Test the hypothesis that, the enhanced intervention would result in improvement on heath attitude, literacy, or behavior and minimize the attrition of weight loss program (6) Explore the trajectory of individual characteristics throughout the treatment course (7) Explore the predictor or correlate of successful weight loss, maintenance and attrition (8) Investigate the interrelationship between different behavioral, physiological, and environmental factors and their composite effect on weight loss (9) Refine the intervention and develop a further effective and individualized behavior intervention for weight loss
The mechanism of the motor problem in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in handwriting has been investigated in the following three aspects, including collecting dynamic handwriting performance, exploring the related underlying factors, and investigating corresponding brain activities. This study aimed to investigate the underlying factor of handwriting issue in children with ASD. There are four study aims. The first is to examine the differences of handwriting performance between children with ASD and TD using kinetic and kinematic measurements and handwriting difficulties questionnaires. The second is to investigate the group difference of the underlying motor factors, including fine motor ability and sensorimotor ability. The third is to explore the relationship between underlying motor factors and handwriting performance. The fourth is to explore the corresponding cortical activity during writing in children.
At present, diabetic patients mainly use drugs to control blood sugar. However, drugs have side effects and the control effect varies among individuals. Even if diabetic patients can control their blood sugar well, long-term medication will still cause a series of complications, including retinopathy, nephropathy, diabetic foot, heart disease, etc. Vascular disease issues, etc. This study will focus on the changes in HbA1c and blood sugar in patients with confirmed diabetes after taking "Dibifree®" food supplement.
Healthy young males will complete five trials in a randomized crossover counter-balanced order, including three different inter-set rest of resistance exercise in equal training volume, one repeated until failure and sedentary control. During each trial, blood samples will be collected. The investigators hypothesized that different inter-set rest and training volume would affect subjective appetite and energy intake.
Storage urinary symptoms are the most complained of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and need further classification. This original study aims to derive a novel classification algorism for female storage LUTS according to a 3-day bladder diary (BD). Further feasibility of the application was also evaluated.
To compare the effects of hydroxypropyl guar (HPG)/hyaluronic acid (HA)- and carboxymethylcellulose (CMC)/HA-based lubricant eye drops on subjective and objective outcomes in dry eye disease (DED) patients after cataract surgery.
This study aimed to investigate the differences in compassionate flow among nursing students both before and after an educational intervention.
A single-blind randomized controlled trial was conducted from January 2022 to September 2023. Chronic migraine patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive either Laser acupuncture or sham treatment. The co-primary outcomes were changes in monthly migraine days (MMD) and acute headache medications usage days per month from baseline. Evaluations were taken at baseline and each follow-up point.
Epiploic appendagitis is a benign and self-limited condition. However, incorrect diagnosis might lead to unnecessary admission, antibiotics use, or operation. The patient having epiploic appendagitis usually appeared at our emergency room with the complaint of abdominal pain. There are numerous differential diagnoses when it comes to abdominal pain. Epiploic appendagitis might happen at any part of the colon. Therefore, diverticulitis or appendicitis might be suspected at the first moment. However, epiploic appendagitis might present different image characteristics besides diverticulitis or appendicitis under ultrasound or computed tomography. Some small case number retrospective reviews suggested that epiploic appendagitis was a 2-3cm, oval-shaped, fat density mass with fat stranding under the computed tomography. Under ultrasound, a noncompressible, hyperechoic ovoid mass might impress epiplopic appendagitis. As ultrasound has become a more and more useful and convenient diagnostic tool in the emergency room, we could diagnose epiploic appendagitis quickly and correctly to reduce unnecessary management. We would like to compare the image characteristics between the ultrasound image and the computed tomography image to help us to diagnose appendigitis with ultrasound in the future. Furthermore, we would also like to compare the computer tomography image of epiploic appendagitis in different locations.