Clinical trials: Disparities
Hypertension
COmmuNity-engaged SimULation Training for Blood Pressure Control
The goal of CONSULT-BP is to train early-stage healthcare providers, including residents and nurse practitioner (NP) students, to mitigate providers' bias, improve communication skills, and enhance providers' ability to develop…
- Trial name
- CONSULT-BP (NCT03375918)
- Testing
- CONSULT-BP Educational Intervention
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 118 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Massachusetts, Worcester
Annual Wellness Visit
Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medicare Annual Wellness Visit Uptake
The goal of this randomized pilot study is to learn the impact of a primary care outreach intervention on the proportion of patients with Medicare insurance who are up-to-date on Medicare Annual Wellness Visit completion.
- Trial name
- NCT06996366
- Testing
- Outreach to encourage Annual Wellness Visit completion
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 174 people
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
Low-Income Population, Women's Health
BeFit Toolbox Collaboration: Building Empowerment Through Fitness
This project will identify the causative behavioral factors in low-income African American women leading to sedentarism, a major source of morbidity in HABD communities.
- Trial name
- BEFIT (NCT06293846)
- Testing
- What I Learned at Home
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 46 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Alzheimer Disease, Cognitive Dysfunction, Cognitive Disorder
DIV-AD BARCELONA: Alzheimer's Blood-Based Biomakers for a Diverse Community
The DIV-AD study aims to find out whether levels of Alzheimer's disease markers in blood differ among the main ethnical groups living in central Barcelona.
- Conditions
- Alzheimer Disease, Cognitive Dysfunction, Cognitive Disorder, Dementia, Neurodegenerative Disease
- Trial name
- DIV-AD (NCT07521722)
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 250 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center, Pasqual Maragall Foundation
Chronic Low Back Pain
Yoga for Chronic Low Back Pain
Chronic low back pain is the most common cause of pain in the United States. Common treatments such as medication, physical therapy, and surgery often do not provide adequate relief.
- Trial name
- NCT00865358
- Testing
- Yoga Group
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Asthma, Lung Diseases
Center for Reducing Asthma Disparities - Rhode Island/Puerto Rico Centers
To reduce disparities in asthma among Latino children.
- Trial name
- NCT00281138
- Volunteers
- 983 people
- Sponsor
- Rhode Island Hospital
Quality of Health Care
Measuring Ethnic Disparities in Family Planning Services in Peru
This study is designed as a crossover randomized controlled trial, to investigate the effects of client's ethnic characteristics on the quality of family planning services.
- Trial name
- NCT01885858
- Testing
- Indigenous profile, Mestizo profile
- Volunteers
- 351 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Culturally Tailored HPV Psychoeducational Multimedia Intervention
Community members ages 18 - 45 years old from the El Paso, Texas, U.S.-Mexico Border Region will be recruited to compare psychoeducational multimedia interventions focused on the human papillomavirus (HPV).
- Conditions
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, Intention, Adherence, Patient
- Trial name
- NCT06098690
- Testing
- Culturally Tailored Multimedia Psychoeducational HPV Intervention, General HPV Multimedia Psychoeducational Control Group
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 63 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Texas, El Paso
Sleep Apnea
Reaching for Equity in Sleep Apnea Treatment (REST) Study
This study will test a brief telephonic health coaching intervention to improve adherence to positive airway pressure therapy for treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.
- Trial name
- REST pilot (NCT04209985)
- Testing
- Health coaching
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 27 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Hypertension
Impact of Computerized Decision Support on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Outcomes
In response to the Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change call for proposals by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, we were funded to evaluate the effectiveness of a planned computerized decision support (CDS)…
- Trial name
- NCT01083940
- Testing
- Computerized reminders on hypertension intensification
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3,600 people
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Hypertension
Multi-Method Health System Quality Improvement Intervention to Reduce Hypertension Disparities
The investigators have designed a three-part quality improvement intervention to 1) improve the clinic-based measurement of blood pressure, 2) introduce a care management system to promote self-management behaviors and rapidly…
- Trial name
- NCT01566864
- Testing
- Improve clinic based measurement of blood pressure, Provider education system to promote patient-centered care, Introduce care management system in clinics
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 66,570 people
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Blood Pressure, Hydration
Potassium, Hydration, Cardiovascular, and Kidney Study (PHACKs)
Compared with White Adults, Non-Hispanic Black Adults are at an elevated risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) and end stage chronic-kidney disease (CKD), two of the leading causes of death in the United States.
- Conditions
- Blood Pressure, Hydration, Vascular Disease Risk
- Trial name
- PHACKs (NCT06062017)
- Testing
- Water and Potassium supplementation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Auburn University
Breast Cancer
Cytokine Expression During Radiation for Breast Cancer
To assess the magnitude and frequency of changes in chemo/cytokine expression in women receiving radiation treatment. To asses the impact of race/ethnicity on the magnitude and frequency of changes in chemo/cytokine expression…
- Trial name
- NCT00836186
- Testing
- Radiation therapy
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 82 people
- Sponsor
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Healthy, Condom Use
Nen ŨnkUmbi/EdaHiYedo Plus (We Are Here Now Plus): a Multi-level Intervention to Reduce Health Disparities Among American Indian Youth
We Are Here Now - Plus (NE+) is a holistic, culturally centered, and multilevel intervention for American Indian youth to improve sexual health, mental health, and substance use outcomes.
- Conditions
- Healthy, Condom Use, Mental Health, Substance Use (Drugs, Alcohol)
- Trial name
- NE+ (NCT07460973)
- Testing
- NE+, Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 843 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Montana State University
Medication Adherence, Medication Compliance
MITIGAAT: Multifaceted Intervention To Improve Graft Outcome Disparities in African American Kidney Transplants
This is a randomized study to test a smartphone app that a pharmacist will use to help kidney transplant patients track their medications, blood pressures, and blood sugars in those with diabetes.
- Trial name
- NCT06023615
- Testing
- mHealth app/dashboard
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 190 people
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
Neonatal Encephalopathy
Telemedicine to Improve Use of Therapeutic Hypothermia in Rural Settings
This pilot intervention trial will assess the feasibility of a live consultation between community hospital providers and tertiary care providers employing a novel teleconsult platform, Maine Neonatal Encephalopathy Teleconsult…
- Trial name
- NCT03706417
- Testing
- Telemedicine consult
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 115 people
- Sponsor
- MaineHealth
Mild Cognitive Impairment, Diabetes
Health Beliefs, Glycemic Control, and Preventing Cognitive Decline in African Americans with Diabetes and Mild Cognitive Impairment: a Randomized Clinical Trial
This double-masked, 2-year, single-site, phase II RCT will test the efficacy of DREAM (Diabetes Regulation for Eye Sight and Memory to prevent cognitive decline in African Americans (AAs) with amnestic multiple domain mild…
- Trial name
- DREAM (NCT04259047)
- Testing
- Diabetes Regulation for Eyesight and Memory, Enhanced Usual Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 145 people
- Sponsor
- Thomas Jefferson University
Communication
The Patient and Family Centered I-PASS LISTEN Study: Language, Inclusion, Safety, and Teamwork for Equity Now
In 2014, a team of parents, nurses, and physicians created Patient and Family Centered I-PASS (PFC I-PASS), a bundle of communication interventions to improve the quality of information exchange between physicians, nurses, and…
- Trial name
- NCT05591066
- Testing
- PFC I-PASS Intervention, PFC I-PASS+ Intervention
- Where
- 8 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 14,400 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital
Colorectal Cancer
A Smartphone-Based Intervention to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening in African American Men
The goal of this clinical trial is to test a new smartphone-based program designed to help African American men get screened for colorectal cancer (CRC).
- Trial name
- NCT06052202
- Testing
- CRC mHealth, Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 128 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- ISA Associates, Inc.
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Social Determinants of Health in Diabetes Outcomes
This is a cross-sectional study of six hundred adults with type 2 diabetes, (300 White and 300 African-American) who will be recruited from two primary care sites to determine how social determinants of health impact diabetes…
- Trial name
- NCT01749345
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 650 people
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina