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Filter by:Displaced and refugee youth in Uganda are more vulnerable to health risks due to financial insecurity. As such, the investigators aim to explore the utility of an intervention aimed at improving livelihoods, called Creating Futures. Creating Futures is a group intervention that aims to help young people build their livelihoods, and was designed for use with youth (18-24) in urban informal settlements in South Africa. Since there is a dearth of knowledge regarding efficacious interventions in refugee camps/settlements to engage young people in HIV testing and linkage to care, the investigators will harness various health promotion techniques including mHealth, comics, and the Creating Futures livelihoods intervention to address the urgent needs for: 1) HIV testing interventions with refugee/displaced adolescent and young people in Kampala, and 2) innovative HIV self test (HIVST) delivery strategies to increase linkage to confirmatory testing and HIV care. The investigators will conduct a three-arm cluster randomized controlled trial (cRCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of HIVST delivery methods among AYP living in Kampala. The specific objectives are to: Evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of: 1) HIVST alone; 2) HIVST in combination with mHealth; and 3) HIVST, mHealth and Creating Futures in combination in increasing routine HIV testing, HIV status knowledge, and linkage to confirmatory testing and HIV care. The investigators aim to examine if adding a livelihoods program to HIV self-testing improves HIV prevention outcomes and other facets of well-being among urban refugee youth in Kampala.
The goal of this observational study is to investigate perinatal, cognitive and social-emotional correlates of neurodevelopmental disorders and educational difficulties in children and adolescents. The study group consist of minimal 500 childrens over 5 years of age who will be examined by qualified diagnosticians. Participants will be evaluated with tasks related to the studied variables: cognitive functioning, social-emotional functioning. Furthermore informations regarding social-emotional functioning of children, will be collected from parents and teachers. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Is there a relationship between perinatal factors and the risk of occurrence of neurodevelopmental disorders and/or learning difficulties? 2. Is there a specific pattern of cognitive functioning in children and adolescents with indicated neurodevelopmental disorders and/or learning difficulties? 3. Is there a specific pattern of social-emotional functioning in children and adolescents with indicated neurodevelopmental disorders and/or learning difficulties? 4. Do gender and age moderates specific patterns of cognitive and social-emotional functioning in the studied groups? Researchers will compare the following groups of children over 5 years old: 1. With perinatal risks factors 2. With neurodevelopmental disorders: 1. Developmental learning disorder 2. Disorder of intellectual development, mild 3. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 4. Autism spectrum disorder 3. With Learning difficulties 4. Control group
Chronic pain is associated with injuries and disabilities. This prospective observational study explores the injury or disability claims made by chronic pain patients. It evaluates the socio-demographics of the patient population. It explores the impact of pain clinic services on the patients' injury rehabilitation, insurance claim outcome, and socioeconomic situation.
Chronic pain is associated with psychological disorders; which may affect a patient's socioeconomic, legal, domestic, and employment situations. This prospective observational study evaluates the impact of pain management on patients' health, social, economic, and employment status. It explores the impact of pain clinic services on patients' mental health, family health, public health, road safety, addiction situation, public safety, injury rehabilitation and employment situation.
The observational study will conduct interprofessional assessments by registered nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists of health determinants (i.e., frailty, physical, cognitive, and sensory function, mental and social health, and alcohol use) in older adults (≥75) living at home and applying for a municipal health service. The participants will take part in two assessments, baseline and 5 months. Based on the baseline assessment healthcare professionals will identify factors that can affect older adults' health, provide tailored information, offer measures, and link with proper health services. The aim is that older adults maintain health, function, and self-care and thus can continue aging at home. The main research question is:) How can interprofessional assessments of older adults living at home reduce the risk of impaired function, maintain health and ensure that the elderly receive tailored services?
This experimental study is to verify a possible correlation between vascular disease, and anthropometric, and psychosocial measurements. Consecutive patients with vascular diseases (Chronic Venous Disease, Carotid Stenosis, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Peripheral Artery Disease) will be referred to Vascular Surgery Units of two hospitals linked to Interuniversity Center of Phlebolymphology (CIFL) International Research and Educational Program in Clinical and Experimental Biotechnology (Mater Domini University Hospital of Catanzaro and the Federico II University Hospital of Naples) to be evaluated. Since it is necessary to study the anthropometric measures and the psychosocial aspects, different types of measurements will be carried out in order to correlate them with the aforementioned vascular disease.