Clinical trials: Empowerment
Feasibility
Microenterprise Intervention to Reduce Sexual Risk Behaviors in Young Adults
The study team will conduct a two-group study to examine the feasibility of implementing an enhanced microenterprise intervention to reduce sexual risk behaviors. The team will enroll approximately 40 young adults.
- Trial name
- EMERGE (NCT03766165)
- Testing
- Intervention, Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Smoking Cessation
Empowering LGBTQ+ Tobacco Cessation Pilot
Sexual and/or gender minority (SGM) people have disproportionately high rates of tobacco use - the number one cause of preventable death.
- Trial name
- NCT05365633
- Testing
- Empowerment activity-enhanced tobacco cessation assistance
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oklahoma
Violence, Domestic, Violence-Related Symptom
It's WeWomen Plus Intervention for Health, Safety and Empowerment
This study evaluates the impact of adaptive technology-based intervention (online, text and phone) "weWomenPlus" on safety, mental health and empowerment of abused immigrant women.
- Conditions
- Violence, Domestic, Violence-Related Symptom, Violence, Physical, Violence, Sexual
- Trial name
- IWWP (NCT04098276)
- Testing
- WeWomen Plus technology based intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,265 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Behavioral Changes
An Intervention to Reduce Risk Factors for Adolescent Pregnancy
Investigators will assess the preliminary effects of Girls Invest, an innovative savings intervention that aims to reduce economic, social, and health behavior risks associated with disproportionately high rates of pregnancy…
- Trial name
- NCT04222959
- Testing
- Girls Invest Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 240 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- San Diego State University
Obesity
Study of Impact of Behavioral Intervention- Exercise, Nutrition, Education- on Body Mass Index (BMI)
This study will evaluate the impact a behavioral intervention can have on BMI. The researchers anticipate the intervention group will experience a decrease in BMI of approximately five points.
- Trial name
- NCT00132132
- Testing
- Behavioral education program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Steward St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston, Inc.
Alzheimer Disease, Dementia
Innovations in Dementia Empowerment and Action
The lack of efficacious research-based interventions for such vulnerable older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/RD) and their caregivers (CGs) is a significant public health problem.
- Conditions
- Alzheimer Disease, Dementia, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson Disease Dementia
- Trial name
- IDEA (NCT03550131)
- Testing
- Innovations in Dementia Empowerment and Action (IDEA), Reducing Disabilities in Alzheimer's Disease (RDAD)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 322 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Frailty, Sarcopenia
FrAilty Care and wEll-funcTion in Community Dwelling Older Adults
This study is looking at whether older people could benefit from an online monitoring platform to support their individual ambitions to maintain or improve functional ability.
- Conditions
- Frailty, Sarcopenia, Aging
- Trial name
- FACET (NCT03707145)
- Testing
- Consultation, Online Support, Empowered
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 43 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Aberystwyth University
Sexually Transmitted Infections, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Economic and Social Empowerment To Increase Upwards Mobility Among Women
The proposed research aims to pilot a multi-strategy structural intervention combining community mobilization to promote gender equity alongside an economic intervention (microfinance and business training) in order to reduce…
- Trial name
- ESTIMA (NCT02266108)
- Testing
- ESTIMA Intervention
- Where
- Mexico
- Volunteers
- 151 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Cancer, Patient Empowerment
Cancer Leadership Training for Clergy Wives and Widows
Multiple cancer health disparities exist for underrepresented minority groups, such as higher late stage diagnoses and greater cancer-related deaths.
- Trial name
- NCT04544241
- Testing
- Cancer Survivorship Leadership Training for Clergy Wives and Widows
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 37 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science
Refugee Self-reliance, Mental Health Issue
GBV Prevention, Mitigation, and Response in Colombia
As of August 2021, Colombia hosts the vast majority of Venezuelan refugees and migrants (UNHCR, 2022). For vulnerable refugees and migrants in Colombia, and especially for women, gender-based violence (GBV) is present during…
- Conditions
- Refugee Self-reliance, Mental Health Issue, Empowerment, Gender Based Violence Knowledge and Perceived Risk
- Trial name
- NCT06312592
- Testing
- Entrepreneurship School with Gender Lens
- Where
- Colombia
- Volunteers
- 253 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Mental Disorders
Efficacy of the Recovery Workbook as a Psychoeducational Tool for Facilitating Recovery
The present study will determine if Spaniol and colleague's (1994) Recovery Workbook group intervention is an effective clinical tool to move a person with SMI along in their journey of recovery.
- Trial name
- NCT00375167
- Testing
- Recovery Workbook Training (psychoeducational training), ACT as usual
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 33 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Queen's University
HIV
MyPEEPS Mobile for Young Transgender Men
The proposed MyPEEPS intervention for young transgender men is a novel and evidence-driven intervention using mobile technology to deliver HIV prevention information to high risk youth.
- Trial name
- NCT05424718
- Testing
- MyPEEPS Mobile
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Physical Activity
Peer Empowerment Program for Physical Activity in Low Income and Minority Seniors
Older adults are the least active population group in the US. Yet, research has shown that an increase in physical activity (PA) can have immediate and profound effects on cardiovascular health.
- Trial name
- PEP4PA (NCT02405325)
- Testing
- Physical Activity
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 476 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Type2 Diabetes
Social Network Analysis to Identify Community Health Workers
The objective of this study is to recruit influential community members using Snowball Sampling Methods. Community members identified through social network analysis as influential and well-connected will be trained as community…
- Trial name
- NCT04210024
- Testing
- Diabetes Empowerment Education Program
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 91 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Brittany L Smalls
Premature Infant Disease, Family Research
PREEMIE PROGRESS: A Family Management Program for Parents of Preterm Infants
The purpose of this study is to refine and pilot test a mobile health (mHealth), video-based family management program for parents of preterm infants hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
- Conditions
- Premature Infant Disease, Family Research, Parent-Child Relations, Self Efficacy
- Trial name
- NCT04638127
- Testing
- PREEMIE PROGRESS, Attention Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 64 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Cincinnati
Violence, Sexual
Empowerment Self-Defense Training for the Prevention of Victimization of Transgender Women
The proposed project aims to develop and refine a tailored Empowerment Self Defense (ESD) violence prevention training for diverse TW through a series of sequential Aims: a) develop an initial draft of an ESD violence prevention…
- Trial name
- NCT04934189
- Testing
- Empowerment Self Defense Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 62 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hunter College of City University of New York
Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer
Genetic Risk Assessment for Cancer Education and Empowerment (GRACE) Project
GRACE is a randomized 3-arm trial to determine the comparative effectiveness of two remote cancer communication interventions: 1) a targeted generic print (TP) or 2) a tailored telephone-based counseling and navigation…
- Trial name
- GRACE (NCT03326713)
- Testing
- Telephone Counseling & Navigation (TCN), Mailed Targeted Print (TP), Usual Care (UC)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 668 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Childhood Obesity
A Cluster Randomized Trial of the H2GO! Program
This proposal involves a collaboration with the Massachusetts Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs. The goal is to evaluate the efficacy of youth empowerment intervention targeting sugar-sweetened beverage consumption on childhood…
- Trial name
- NCT04265794
- Testing
- H2GO!
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 820 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston University
Life Stress, Racism
Race-Based Stress Trauma and Empowerment
The existence of racially/ethnically based health disparities is well established, both within the civilian community and among Service Members and Veterans.
- Trial name
- RBSTE (NCT05422638)
- Testing
- RBSTE, PCT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 37 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Invasive Mechanical Ventilation, Children With Medical Complexity
Parent-to-parent Coaching While Awaiting Hospital Discharge With a Child With a Ventilator
The objective of the study is to pilot a parent-to-parent coaching model with experienced family members of children with Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (IMV) as parent coaches.
- Conditions
- Invasive Mechanical Ventilation, Children With Medical Complexity, Home Nursing, Empowerment
- Trial name
- NCT05880953
- Testing
- Parent-to-parent coaching
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago