Clinical trials: Communication
Breast Cancer, Empowerment
An Interactive Empowerment Tool for Breast Cancer Patients
The study is aimed to verify the effect of an online interactive tool on patient empowerment. The tool is based on a validated psychological questionnaire administrated to breast cancer patients before their first encounter with…
- Trial name
- NCT02312700
- Testing
- Interactive empowerment tool
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- University of Milan
Depression, Psychological Distress
A Pilot Study of the Effect of Personalized Depression Risk Communication
Depression is a highly prevalent and disabling mental health problem. It is associated with significant morbidity and mortality and it has a significant economic impact.
- Trial name
- NCT04519892
- Testing
- PDRC, Coach guidance
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Calgary
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Language Delay
pBFS Guided aiTBS Over Language Network for ASD Child
The aim of this trial is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of precision neuromodulation in improving language ability in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who also have language development delay.
- Trial name
- NCT06950437
- Testing
- active iTBS, speech therapy
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- Beijing Changping Tianhe Research Institute of Brain Science
Risk Communication
Testing the Effect of a Caution for Drugs Approved on Surrogate Outcomes Alone
The purpose of this study is to test whether cautions about the evidence, in this case an "open questions" statement, decreases enthusiasm for drugs that are approved on surrogate outcomes (compared to patient outcomes) alone.
- Trial name
- NCT00950157
- Testing
- Presentation of information on approval based on a surrogate outcome and levels of caution
- Volunteers
- 2,944 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Malignant Neoplasms of Independent (Primary) Multiple Sites, Advanced Cancer
Patient Perception of Physician's Compassion, Communication Skills, and Professionalism During an Outpatient Palliative Care Visit
The goal of this research study is to learn how patients feel about their doctors' attitudes toward supportive care and treatment options for advanced cancer patients.
- Trial name
- NCT02957565
- Testing
- Baseline Questionnaires, Videos, Assessment Questionnaires
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 121 people
- Sponsor
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Encephalopathy, Birth Defect
Clinical Utility of Pediatric Whole Exome Sequencing
The investigator aims to examine the clinical utility of WES, including assessment of a variety of clinical outcomes in undiagnosed pediatric cases.
- Conditions
- Encephalopathy, Birth Defect, Intellectual Disability, Multiple Congenital Anomaly
- Trial name
- NCT03525431
- Testing
- Whole Exome Sequencing
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 529 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Voice Disorders
Multimodal Analysis of Structural Voice Disorders Based on Speech and Stroboscopic Laryngoscope Video
This study intends to collect clinical data such as strobary laryngoscope images and vowel audio data of patients with structural voice disorders and healthy individuals, and to establish a multimodal voice disorder diagnosis…
- Trial name
- NCT05348031
- Volunteers
- 1 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University
Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD)
Personalized Brain Health Service and Dementia Prevention
This study evaluates the feasibility of implementing a Brain Health Service (BHS) to assess and reduce dementia risk in individuals with Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD).
- Trial name
- B-HEALTH (NCT07698431)
- Testing
- Multimodal Lifestyle Intervention, Lifestyle Recommendations and Counseling
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center, Pasqual Maragall Foundation
Speech Articulation Disorder, Developmental Articulation Disorder
Randomized Clinical Trial of Phonological Interventions
Recent research reveals genetic and symptomatic overlap among children with speech sound disorders (i.e., those who (misarticulate more sounds than would be expected for their age) and children with dyslexia (i.e., those who…
- Conditions
- Speech Articulation Disorder, Developmental Articulation Disorder, Phonological Impairment, Dyslexia
- Trial name
- ECRIP (NCT00818428)
- Testing
- Speech Production Intervention, Speech Perception Intervention, Articulation Parent Group
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 96 people
- Sponsor
- McGill University
Speech Sound Disorder
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Hybrid and Traditional Speech Therapy for /ɹ/ and /s/ Sound Production
The purpose of this research study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a hybrid Artificial Intelligence-assisted speech therapy model, which combines the use of an AI speech therapist (Jessica) with traditional speech therapy…
- Trial name
- GENESIS (NCT07061730)
- Testing
- Traditional Therapy, Hybrid therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 23 people
- Sponsor
- Syracuse University
Stuttering, Developmental
Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Adults Who Stutter
Research studies in stuttering have shown that activity patterns in certain brain areas differ in people who stutter compared to people who do not stutter when speaking.
- Trial name
- NCT03437512
- Testing
- Anodal tDCS, Fluency training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 29 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Behavior, Infant
Efficacy of Family Programs for Improving Child and Family Health and Development
The proposed research is relevant to public health because of the critical importance of infant attachment and early experiences to the lifetime trajectory of mental health and socio-emotional functioning.
- Trial name
- NCT03367845
- Testing
- Control, Sensitivity Intervention, Couples' Intervention
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,005 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Colorado State University
Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech
The study will test two modifications to speech therapy for 40 school-age children with childhood apraxia of speech to determine how to improve treatment outcomes.
- Trial name
- NCT03238677
- Testing
- Speech Motor Chaining without Biofeedback, Biofeedback, Distributed Practice
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 56 people
- Sponsor
- Syracuse University
Nonfluent Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia (nfvPPA)
Clinical Study of Neflamapimod in Patients With Primary Progressive Aphasia
The goal of this exploratory study is to evaluate the effect of neflamapimod in participants with nonfluent variant primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA).
- Trial name
- NCT07033481
- Testing
- Neflamapimod
- Where
- 7 sites in United States, United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- EIP Pharma Inc
Critical Illness, Oncology
Giving Information Systematically and Transparently in Lung and GI Cancer Phase 2
When advanced disease progresses, there comes a time when an oncologists must explain to their patients that they only have months left to live.
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Oncology, Communication
- Trial name
- Oncolo-GIST (NCT04179305)
- Testing
- Oncolo-GIST, Usual Care Arm
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 37 people
- Sponsor
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Air Pollution, mHealth Intervention
1/2- Bangladesh Center for Global Environmental and Occupational Health- Bangladesh
Almost 3 billion people worldwide, including 89% people in Bangladesh, are exposed to harmful household air pollutants (HAP) emitted from combustion of biomass (wood, agricultural residue, cow dung, etc.) fuel use for cooking.
- Conditions
- Air Pollution, mHealth Intervention, Cardiopulmonary Function, Immune Function
- Trial name
- GEOHealth-II (NCT05570552)
- Testing
- mHealth based behavioral change communication intervention
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Deep Convolutional Neural Network, Small-incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE) Surgery
Diagnostic Efficacy of CNN in Predicting Intraoperative Complications and Postoperative Outcomes in SMILE
To evaluate the diagnostic efficiency of the neural network in predicting complications of Small Incision Lenticule Extraction in a multi-center cross-sectional study.
- Conditions
- Deep Convolutional Neural Network, Small-incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE) Surgery, Intraoperative Complications, Postoperative Outcomes
- Trial name
- NCT06204926
- Testing
- AI diagnostic algorithm
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 1,250 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University
Treatment Adherence, Treatment Compliance
Adherence to Exercises for Low Back Pain.
This project focuses on the effectiveness of a Chatbot in promoting adherence to home physiotherapy treatment for patients with lumbar musculoskeletal injuries.
- Trial name
- NCT06070415
- Testing
- Chatbot, Home exercise, usual care, Education
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 69 people
- Sponsor
- University of Valencia
Facial Expressions
Effect of Oxytocin on Masked Facial Expressions: an fMRI Study
The purpose is to test whether oxytocin has an effect on masked facial expressions
- Trial name
- NCT02183948
- Testing
- Oxytocin
- Volunteers
- 86 people
- Sponsor
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Evaluating the Efficacy of Pathways Parent-Mediated Early Autism Intervention on Social Attention and Language
The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the efficacy of Pathways parent-mediated early autism intervention (Pathways) and a parent education intervention (PEI) delivered to culturally and linguistically diverse families…
- Trial name
- NCT05604326
- Testing
- Pathways Intervention, Parent Education Intervention (PEI)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 58 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas at Dallas