Clinical trials: Pneumonia Childhood
Pneumonia Childhood, Childhood Asthma
Optimization and Testing of ALRITE, a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Management of Respiratory Illnesses in Young Children in Primary Care Health Facilities in Uganda
The goal of this study is to pilot test the feasibility of a mobile health clinical decision support tool called ALRITE for the diagnosis and management of acute lower respiratory illnesses in young children in Uganda.
- Conditions
- Pneumonia Childhood, Childhood Asthma, Acute Lower Respiratory Illness, Wheezing Lower Respiratory Illness
- Trial name
- NCT07369817
- Testing
- ALRITE
- Where
- Uganda
- Volunteers
- 48 people
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Community-acquired Pneumonia
pedCAPNETZ - Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) in Childhood and Adolescence
Establishment of a study network and patient cohort for pediatric CAP
- Trial name
- pedCAPNETZ (NCT04047108)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- Hannover Medical School
Malnutrition, Pneumonia
Trial in Childhood Pneumonia With Malnutrition
The impetus for this study came from the findings of the investigators' recently published study entitled "Day-care management of severe and very severe pneumonia, without associated co-morbidities such as severe malnutrition, in…
- Trial name
- NCT00968370
- Testing
- Day-care clinic, Hospital Management
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 440 people
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Quality of Life (QOL), Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)
Validation of the EQ-5D-Y-3L and EQ-5D-Y-5L for Paediatric Patients in China
The goal of this observational study is to validate the EQ-5D-Y-3L and EQ-5D-Y-5L in measuring health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for paediatric patients with different health conditions in China.
- Conditions
- Quality of Life (QOL), Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), Pneumonia Childhood, Neuroblastoma (NB)
- Trial name
- NCT06873672
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 360 people
- Sponsor
- RenJi Hospital
Chronic Graft-versus-Host-Disease, Leukemia
Biomarker Verification in Pediatric Chronic GvHD: ABLE 2.0 / PTCTC GVH 1901 Study
This study will validate a previously developed pediatric prognostic biomarker algorithm aimed at improving prediction of risk for the later development of chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGvHD) in children and young adults…
- Conditions
- Chronic Graft-versus-Host-Disease, Leukemia, Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Blood Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT04372524
- Where
- 16 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 350 people
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
Pneumonia Childhood, Pneumonia
Lung Ultrasound for Guiding Antibiotic Use in Pediatric Pneumonia
Pneumonia is a major cause of illness and death in children, with an annual incidence of about 3.3 per 1,000 in those under five years old, many requiring hospitalization.
- Conditions
- Pneumonia Childhood, Pneumonia, Lung Ultrasound, Antibiotic Stewardship
- Trial name
- LUSCAP (NCT06921993)
- Testing
- LUNG ULTRASOUND
- Where
- 18 sites in United States, Israel and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 659 people
- Sponsor
- Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS
Respiratory Tract Infections, Pneumonia
Randomised Exposure Study of Pollution Indoors and Respiratory Effects
The purpose of this study was to determine whether reduced exposure to indoor air pollution would reduce ALRI incidence in children <18 months of age.
- Trial name
- RESPIRE (NCT01047696)
- Testing
- Plancha
- Where
- Guatemala
- Volunteers
- 537 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Berkeley
Acute Respiratory Infection, Pneumonia Childhood
Impact of Improved "Injera" Baking Stove Use on Childhood Acute Respiratory Infection Prevention in Northwest Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, great majorities (95%) of households rely on solid biomass fuels such as wood, muck, crop residues, and charcoal burned in highly polluting stoves to meet the basic household energy needs with its severe health…
- Trial name
- NCT03612362
- Testing
- Improved "Injera" Baking Biomass Stove
- Where
- Ethiopia
- Volunteers
- 5,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bahir Dar University
Pneumonia, Childhood Pneumonia
Online Learning Portal on Under Five Pneumonia
Despite the availability of standard pneumonia management guidelines and multiple global efforts, pneumonia continues to be the leading killer of children under five, accounting to around 17% of the total under five deaths…
- Conditions
- Pneumonia, Childhood Pneumonia, Infectious Disease, Acute Respiratory Infection
- Trial name
- NCT04495361
- Testing
- E-learning portal
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 600 people
- Sponsor
- University of Edinburgh
Pneumonia Childhood
Effectiveness Trial of Day-care vs. Usual Care of Severe Pneumonia & Malnutrition in Children
Background: At present pneumonia and malnutrition have become the leading causes of mortality among <5-year-old children in developing countries.
- Trial name
- Day-care (NCT02669654)
- Testing
- Day-care management of Severe Pneumonia
- Where
- 2 sites in Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 4,000 people
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Pneumonia
Effect of Enhanced Feedback to Hospitals in an Emerging Clinical Information Network
A cluster randomised pragmatic trial will be conducted within an emerging clinical information network composed of 12 Kenyan county hospitals.
- Trial name
- NCT02817971
- Testing
- Enhanced feedback, Standard feedback
- Where
- 12 sites in Kenya
- Volunteers
- 900 people
- Sponsor
- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Collaborative Research Program
Asthma in Children
Consequences of COVID 19 Pandemic on Childhood Asthma
The SARS-CoV2 pandemic, which emerged in the first quarter of 2020, has led to an unprecedented health crisis in our modern healthcare systems and has resulted in strong national public health measures.
- Trial name
- VIRASTHCOVID (NCT04821908)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 577 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Lille
Malaria, Pneumonia
ICCM of Common Childhood Diseases: Mozambique and Uganda
The aim of the inSCALE project is to test the effect of innovative approaches to increase coverage of integrated community case management, which provides community based-care for diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria, resulting in…
- Conditions
- Malaria, Pneumonia, Diarrhoea
- Trial name
- inSCALE (NCT01972321)
- Testing
- Technology supported supervision, Community supported supervision, Integrated community case management
- Where
- 2 sites in Mozambique, Uganda
- Volunteers
- 2,289 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Malaria Consortium
Pneumonia Childhood
Improving CarE for Community Acquired Pneumonia 1 (ICE-CAP2)
Children with pneumonia presenting to the emergency department at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt or Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh will be potentially eligible for study.
- Trial name
- ICE-CAP2 (NCT06033079)
- Testing
- Clinical Decision Support
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 536 people
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Pneumonia
Amoxicillin Versus Benzyl Penicillin for Treatment of Children Hospitalised With Severe Pneumonia
This study seeks to determine whether clinical outcome following initial treatment of severe pneumonia with oral amoxicillin is as effective as the current standard benzyl penicillin.
- Trial name
- NCT01399723
- Testing
- Amoxicillin, Benzyl penicillin
- Where
- 6 sites in Kenya
- Volunteers
- 561 people
- Sponsor
- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Collaborative Research Program
Malnutrition, Pneumonia
Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition Network
The CHAIN Network aims to identify modifiable biomedical and social factors driving the greatly increased risk of mortality among young undernourished children admitted to hospital with acute illness, as inpatients and after…
- Conditions
- Malnutrition, Pneumonia, Diarrhea, Sepsis
- Trial name
- CHAIN (NCT03208725)
- Where
- 8 sites in Bangladesh, Kenya and 3 more
- Volunteers
- 4,335 people
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford
Malaria, Pneumonia
Study of Post-Training Supports for Health Workers in Benin
The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a package of interventions to support health workers in Benin (in West Africa) who had been trained to use Integrated Management of…
- Conditions
- Malaria, Pneumonia, Diarrhea, Measles
- Trial name
- NCT00510679
- Testing
- Health worker supports (supervision, job aids, incentives)
- Where
- Benin
- Volunteers
- 1,577 people
- Sponsor
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Childhood Pneumonia
Cotrimoxazole Versus Amoxicillin in the Treatment of Community Acquired Pneumonia in Children Aged 2-59 Months
The investigators hypothesized that Oral amoxicillin (25mg/kg/dose bid) given to children aged 2-59 months with pneumonia, would lead to better clinical outcome on day three in 89.9% of the children compared to 77.0% of children…
- Trial name
- NCT00933049
- Testing
- Amoxicillin, Cotrimoxazole
- Where
- Uganda
- Volunteers
- 505 people
- Sponsor
- Makerere University
Pneumonia, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
CPAP Improving Mortality for Pneumonia in African Children Trial
Pneumonia mortality rates in African countries like Malawi are high and increased further in children -exposed or infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as well as those that are severely malnourished or severely…
- Conditions
- Pneumonia, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Malnutrition, Hypoxemia
- Trial name
- IMPACT (NCT02484183)
- Testing
- bubble continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
- Where
- Malawi
- Volunteers
- 646 people
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Lower Respiratory Infection, LRTI
Effectiveness of Point-of-care Lung Ultrasound for the Management of Childhood Lower Respiratory Infections
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of point-of-care lung ultrasound versus chest X-ray for the management of childhood lower respiratory infections in a low-resource setting.
- Conditions
- Lower Respiratory Infection, LRTI, Pneumonia, Bronchiolitis
- Trial name
- ELUS (NCT05921526)
- Testing
- Point-of-care lung ultrasound, Chest X-ray (digital images)
- Where
- Nepal
- Volunteers
- 616 people
- Sponsor
- Nagasaki University