Clinical trials: Knowledge
Prostate
Educational Intervention in Increasing Knowledge About Prostate Cancer in High-Risk Neighborhoods
This clinical trial studies how well an educational intervention works in increasing knowledge about prostate cancer in high-risk neighborhoods.
- Trial name
- NCT03197896
- Testing
- Educational Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 239 people
- Sponsor
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Impacts of Clinician-Mediated Report-Back
The study trains clinicians to return personal exposure results to study participants in pregnancy cohorts, and measures outcomes for environmental health literacy for both clinicians and study participants.
- Trial name
- NCT06074159
- Testing
- In-clinic report-back
- Where
- 2 sites in United States, Puerto Rico
- Volunteers
- 163 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Silent Spring Institute
Resident Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Cross-cultural Care, Interpersonal and Communication Skills in Patient-clinician Encounters
The Provider Awareness and Cultural Dexterity Toolkit for Surgeons Trial
This study is designed to test the impact of a new curriculum, called Provider Awareness Cultural Dexterity Toolkit for Surgeons (PACTS), on surgical residents' cross-cultural knowledge, attitudes, and skills surrounding the care…
- Conditions
- Resident Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Cross-cultural Care, Interpersonal and Communication Skills in Patient-clinician Encounters, Patient-reported Satisfaction With Resident Physicians Involved in Their Care, Patients' Clinical Health Outcomes After Surgery
- Trial name
- PACTS (NCT03576495)
- Testing
- PACTS curriculum, Standard Residency Curriculum
- Where
- 8 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 2,901 people
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Heart Failure, Heart Failure Hospitalization
Teach-Back Discharge Education to Improve Self-Care and Reduce 30-Day Readmissions in Heart Failure Patients
This study aimed to improve how patients with heart failure understand and manage their condition after leaving the hospital. Many heart failure patients are readmitted within 30 days due to confusion about their discharge…
- Conditions
- Heart Failure, Heart Failure Hospitalization, Readmission, Hospital
- Trial name
- NCT07280208
- Testing
- Teach-Back Discharge Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 57 people
- Sponsor
- Nova Southeastern University
Hiv, HIV Testing
Experiential HIV Testing Increasing Testing Related Knowledge and Practice, and Reduce Stigma Toward HIV of Nurses.
This is a randomized controlled trial design. The investigators plan to recruit about 60 to 70 emergency department nurses from a medical center in Taipei, Taiwan.
- Trial name
- NCT05615935
- Testing
- Experiential HIV Testing
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 74 people
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University
Decision Support Systems,Clinical, Skin Diseases
The Impact of a Dermatology Information Source on Skin Problem Outcomes in Primary Care
Health care providers use a variety of computerized medical information sources to reduce knowledge gaps and support patient care decisions.
- Trial name
- NCT02922738
- Testing
- VisualDx
- Volunteers
- 465 people
- Sponsor
- University of Vermont
Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Development of a Training Intervention to Improve Mental Health Treatment Effectiveness and Engagement for Youth With Documented Mental Health Disparities
The overall goal of the larger 3-aim study is to develop and pilot test a training intervention to increase mental health providers' use of evidence-based practices with youth patients.
- Trial name
- NCT05626231
- Testing
- Training Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 286 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston College
Episodic Migraine
The Effects of Expectation and Knowledge on Rizatriptan and Placebo Treatment of Acute Migraine Headache
Evidence-based medicine depends on distinguishing between pharmacological effects and placebo effects in randomized controlled trials (RCT).
- Trial name
- NCT00719134
- Testing
- Maxalt
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 76 people
- Sponsor
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Pain
Caring for Babies During the Newborn Screening Blood Test
Newborn infants have blood work procedures in their first days of life that cause pain, distress and physiological changes. Breastfeeding (BF), skin to skin care (SSC), or giving sweet solutions (sucrose or glucose) has been…
- Trial name
- NCT02608892
- Testing
- BSweet2Babies video
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Sickle Cell Disease
Building Adaptive Coping and Knowledge to Improve Daily Life
The purpose of this study is to find out how teenagers with chronic pain and sickle cell disease respond to a new training program called Back2Life and get their feedback about how to modify the program to best fit their needs.
- Trial name
- Back2Life (NCT04602728)
- Testing
- Back2Life
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Emory University
Reading Problem
Knowledge Accessibility and Availability in Forming Knowledge-to-Text Inferences Among Middle Grade Readers
Recent adolescent-based research shows that inference making improves across grades 6-12, uniquely accounts for variance in sentence- and passage-level comprehension, and that individual differences in inference making relate in…
- Trial name
- BVU-R15 (NCT03782012)
- Testing
- Supported
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 241 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Buena Vista University
Keloid Scar
Assessing and Improving Patient Knowledge About Keloid Scars (Keloids)
The purpose of this study is: to identify how knowledge about keloid scars and self-treatments differs between patients who use the Internet as a source of information and patients who do not to determine if patients who are at a…
- Trial name
- NCT01176877
- Testing
- Scripted lecture ("educational information talk")
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
Contraception, Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Testing the Impact of Two Posters on Contraceptive Knowledge, Contraceptive Preferences, and Perceived Pregnancy Risk
This study tests two posters that teach people about contraception: one designed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and one designed by the researchers.
- Trial name
- NCT03372369
- Testing
- View CDC Poster, View Patient-Centered Poster
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 990 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Knowledge, Attitude to Health
Comparing the Effect of Online and Conventional Oral Health Education in Egypt
This study aims to compare the results of online oral health education and conventional oral health education methods in terms of their effectiveness towards improving the knowledge and practice of oral hygiene in primary school…
- Conditions
- Knowledge, Attitude to Health, Practice
- Trial name
- NCT05570500
- Testing
- Oral health education
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 636 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ain Shams University
HPV Vaccination, Vaccine; Uptake
PREVENT HPV-Related Cancers - BootCamp Translation
This study will serve as one of the first to develop and test the effectiveness of strategies to promote HPV vaccination among diverse rural parents and caregivers of children ages 9-17 years in the Mountain West.
- Conditions
- HPV Vaccination, Vaccine; Uptake, Vaccination; Series Completion
- Trial name
- PREVENT (NCT06290206)
- Testing
- PREVENT - BCT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Utah
Obesity, Adolescent, Health Behavior
Health Literacy and Obesogenic Behaviors
The prevalence of adolescent behaviors that can lead to obesity are alarming, and reduced life expectancy is the future of America's youth if behavioral changes are not implemented to improve health and reduce the obesity burden.
- Conditions
- Obesity, Adolescent, Health Behavior, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Diet, Healthy
- Trial name
- HL-Squared (NCT04252677)
- Testing
- Obesity Prevention, Health Literacy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 36 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- City University of New York, School of Public Health
Ageing
Implementation of Knowledge-Based Palliative Care
The research on ageing during the last couple of decades has increasingly focused on questions regarding the quality of life and life satisfaction of the old people.
- Trial name
- KUPA (NCT02708498)
- Testing
- Educational Intervention
- Where
- 30 sites in Sweden
- Volunteers
- 1,151 people
- Sponsor
- Lund University
Schistosomiasis, Health Education
Health Education Model Led by Community Health Volunteers.
The goal of this intervention study is to investigate the level of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of students on schistosomiasis in Pemba Island.
- Trial name
- NCT06312462
- Testing
- health education
- Where
- Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 978 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pemba Ministry of Health Zanzibar
Chronic Diseases
A Cluster-randomized Controlled Knowledge Translation Feasibility Study in Alberta Community Pharmacies
Background: Despite evidence of benefit for pharmacist involvement in chronic disease management, the provision of these services in community pharmacy has been suboptimal.
- Trial name
- NCT02191111
- Testing
- Task-focused facilitation
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alberta
Atrial Fibrillation
RELY-ABLE Long Term Multi-center Extension of Dabigatran Treatment in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Who Completed RE-LY Trial
The purposes of this study are: 1. To evaluate the long-term safety of dabigatran etexilate 2. To assess the effect of a knowledge translation intervention on patient outcomes
- Trial name
- NCT00808067
- Testing
- dabigatran dose 1, dabigatran dose 2
- Where
- 567 sites in United States, Australia and 33 more
- Volunteers
- 5,897 people
- Sponsor
- Boehringer Ingelheim