Clinical trials: First Responders
HCV Infection, Hepatitis C, Chronic
Peginterferon Alfa-2a Plus Ribavirin Plus Amantadine for the Treatment of Hepatitis C Infected Patients
Response to a second-line anti-HCV treatment in non responder patients to a first-line dual therapy remains very poor. Preliminary studies of amantadine suggest that this drug could be potentially effective to treat hepatitis C.
- Trial name
- PEGARI (NCT00221624)
- Testing
- Peginterferon alfa-2a, ribavirin, amantadine
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 131 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Bordeaux
Cardiac Arrest (CA), Cardiac Arrest With Successful Resuscitation
A Study on the Impact of a New Canton-Wide First Responder System in Zug, Switzerland, on Survival After Adult Cardiac Arrest-Examining Early Life-Saving Organized Help, Fast Defibrillation, and Improved Outcomes for Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest
REVIVE Zug: Improving Emergency Response for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) represents one of the most time-critical medical emergencies, where rapid recognition and immediate intervention…
- Conditions
- Cardiac Arrest (CA), Cardiac Arrest With Successful Resuscitation, Resuscitation, Emergency Medical Services
- Trial name
- REVIVE Zug (NCT07323667)
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 250 people
- Sponsor
- Felix Brinkmann
Opioid Overdose
A Model to Save Lives Through a Volunteer First Responder Service Providing Antidote Treatment in Opioid Overdose
Opioids are responsible for the greatest drug-related global health burden. Prevention and treatment programs for people with opioid use disorder are widely implemented, but further actions are required to reduce the mortality…
- Trial name
- RESPONDER (NCT07079241)
- Testing
- Naloxone-responder: A volunteer first responder system connected to emergency dispatch service and alerting overdose and first aid educated volunteers with naloxone to suspected opioid overdoses
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Region Skane
Burnout
Mindfulness Training for First Responders
The present study evaluates the efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Attention Training on measures targeting cognitive abilities and emotional well-being in first responders.
- Trial name
- NCT06582927
- Testing
- Mindfulness-Based Attention Training (MBAT)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 87 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
Mental Fatigue, Mental Stress
tAN for First Responders
This study is designed as an open label, single arm, decentralized clinical study in which first responders will receive transcutaneous auricular neurostimulation (tAN), which targets the auricular branch of the vagus nerve…
- Trial name
- NCT07109349
- Testing
- Sparrow Link
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 23 people
- Sponsor
- Spark Biomedical, Inc.
Adults, Firefighters
Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation: Piloting a Road to PTSD Prevention in First Responders
The goal of this study is to test whether active duty firefighters find it possible and suitable to do cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) at home, and test whether CES influences measures of depression and posttraumatic…
- Trial name
- NCT06203717
- Testing
- Alpha-Stim AID cranial electrotherapy stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 13 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Butler Hospital
Emergency Medical Services
Community First Responders' Role in the Current and Future Rural Health and Care Workforce
Community First Responders (CFRs) are trained members of the public, lay people or off-duty healthcare staff who volunteer to provide first aid.
- Trial name
- NCT04279262
- Testing
- attendance by community first responders for medical emergencies
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 83,995 people
- Sponsor
- University of Lincoln
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Cognitive Dysfunction
The Effectiveness of a Cognitive Training Program, Goal Management Training, on Reducing Cognitive Difficulties and Improving Every-day Functioning in Individuals With Affective Disorders
This study investigates the utility of Goal Management Training (GMT) in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), in order to determine if this treatment is effective in improving cognitive function in patients with…
- Trial name
- NCT04076839
- Testing
- Goal Management Training
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 48 people
- Sponsor
- Homewood Research Institute
COVID-19, Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Impact of Reactogenicity of the 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccines on Health Care Workers and First Responders in the United States
To assess the impact of reactogenicity among health care workers and first responders receiving an updated 2024-25 Novavax COVID-19 vaccine as compared with those receiving an updated 2024-25 Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine
- Conditions
- COVID-19, Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, SARS CoV 2 Infection
- Trial name
- SHIELD (NCT06633835)
- Testing
- protein subunit: Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 660 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Novavax
COVID-19, Coronavirus
Will Hydroxychloroquine Impede or Prevent COVID-19
This is a prospective, multi-site study designed to evaluate whether the use of hydroxychloroquine in healthcare workers (HCW), Nursing Home Workers (NHW), first responders (FR), and Detroit Department of Transportation bus…
- Conditions
- COVID-19, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Infections, SARS-CoV 2
- Trial name
- WHIP COVID-19 (NCT04341441)
- Testing
- Hydroxychloroquine - Daily Dosing, Hydroxychloroquine - Weekly Dosing, Monitoring Visit - Baseline
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 624 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Henry Ford Health System
Mental Health Wellness
Testing a Wellness App for First Responders, Military Personnel and Veterans
The purpose of the research study is to trial a smart phone application, the GUIDE App, to better understand its impact on social connectedness, personal growth and mental health/wellness among first responders, soldiers, and…
- Trial name
- NCT06336967
- Testing
- GUIDE
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 115 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Stress Disorder, Post Traumatic
EEG-based Personalized Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (eTMS) to Treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
This is a randomized, sham controlled study of the Electroencephalogram (EEG) based Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (eTMS) treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
- Trial name
- NCT06892028
- Testing
- EEG-based personalized TMS
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 110 people
- Sponsor
- Wave Neuroscience
Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA)
Trial of Mobile External Defibrillator for Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest in Singapore.
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn the feasibility of equipping the volunteer community responders (VCR) with the mobile external automated defibrillators (mAEDs) for the management of adults experiencing out-of-hospital…
- Trial name
- NCT07042061
- Testing
- Mobile external automated defibrillator
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- Singapore General Hospital
Smokeless Tobacco Cessation
Smokeless Tobacco Cessation Intervention for Firefighters
The investigators are asking professional firefighters across North Carolina to take part in focus groups to discuss the specific needs of firefighters in smokeless tobacco cessation.
- Trial name
- NCT05111041
- Testing
- #EnufSnuff.TXT- First Responder, Enough Snuff Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Insomnia
The PSP Sleep Course: An Online Sleep Intervention for Public Safety Personnel With Self-reported Sleep Difficulties.
This study evaluates an internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (ICBTi) intervention, known as the PSP Sleep Course, adapted for public safety personnel (PSP) experiencing sleep difficulties.
- Trial name
- NCT07021183
- Testing
- Sleep Course
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Regina
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
RF Vapor Ablation Retreatment of Duodenal Mucosa in Non-responders With Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus
The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that re-treatment of the duodenal mucosa with RF vapor ablation will result in improvement in glycemic parameters, without complications (bleeding/ stricture / perforation)…
- Trial name
- NCT06724822
- Testing
- RF Vapor Ablation
- Where
- Chile
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- Aqua Medical, Inc.
Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
The HeartRunner Trial
The study will assess 30-day survival for cases where volunteer citizen responders ('heart runners') were activated through a smartphone app to retrieve an AED in case of suspected out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) versus…
- Trial name
- NCT03835403
- Testing
- Activation of HeartRunners
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 2,114 people
- Sponsor
- Emergency Medical Services, Capital Region, Denmark
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Trauma and Stress Related Disorders
Grappling With Trauma: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for First Responders
This study explores whether participating in an 8-week Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) program is linked to changes in trauma-related symptoms among first responders.
- Conditions
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Trauma and Stress Related Disorders, Occupational Stress, Emotional Regulation Difficulties
- Trial name
- CAM-GRIP (NCT07783516)
- Testing
- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 8 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sam Houston State University
Trauma, Trauma Injury
Deploying Emergency Bystander Internet Training
The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a massive open online course (MOOC) for training lay first responders in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Trial name
- DEBIT (NCT05909917)
- Testing
- Half-Day First Responder Training
- Where
- 4 sites in Kenya, Nigeria and 2 more
- Volunteers
- 658 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Cervical Cancer Cin Grade
New Methods of Distribution of a Self Sampler Kit for Cervical Cancer Screening
The opportunity of a home, self-collected sample, opens the chance to remove some of the barriers that may discourage women from participating to screening programmes or performing HPV (Human Papilloma Virus)-test.
- Trial name
- NMDSS2 (NCT01647724)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 15,000 people
- Sponsor
- Azienda Sanitaria Locale 4, Teramo