Addictions Clinical Trials
A listing of Addictions medical research trials actively recruiting patient volunteers. Search for closest city to find more detailed information on a research study in your area.
Found 123 clinical trials
The Effect of Mindfulness Intervention Program on Adolescents' Internet Addiction
The Internet shows its presence in areas where human beings are actively involved, from education to health, from entertainment to the investment sector. The integration of the Internet into many areas of human life leads to its intensive use. According to the Global Digital Report, the number of individuals with …
A Prospective Clinical Study of a Cohort of Patients Seeking Treatment for a Behavioral Addiction
This research aims to provide a better understanding of the factors associated with the evolution of behavioral addictions, and compliance with care. The investigators thus aim to follow patients with several types of behavioral addictions, based on addictive, sociodemographic, clinical and endophenotypical characteristics, as well as their care adhesion.
Adapting and Evaluating a Tobacco Use Cessation Program for People Living With HIV in Uganda and Zambia
This proposal tests the efficacy of a phone-based tobacco cessation intervention for people living with HIV (PLWH) in comparison to the standard of care (brief advice to quit) and nicotine replacement therapy (nicotine patches) in Uganda and Zambia. This study will provide insight into the efficacy, feasibility, applicability, and affordability …
Advanced Functional and Structural MRI Techniques for Neuropharmacological Imaging
Background \- Functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques have allowed researchers to map and study how the brain works when at rest and when engaged in specific tasks. MRI scans have provided more information about how drugs affect the brain, and about how drug addiction changes the brain …
CONNECT Cancer Survivors With Tobacco Treatment
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of two different informatics-enabled implementation strategies on increasing tobacco treatment and improving smoking cessation rates for cancer control and prevention. This will be done via a two-arm pragmatic cluster randomized trial (CRT) to test the effectiveness of nudges to …
Overcoming Nicotine Dependence to Enable Quitting
Tobacco use disorder is a chronic, relapsing health condition that necessitates a chronic care approach. However, traditional smoking cessation treatment programs allocate nearly all their resources only to those smokers who are willing to set a quit date. This is problematic because few smokers are ready to set a quit …
Smoking Cessation and Menstrual Cycle Phase
Tobacco use is a risk factor for at least 20 types of cancer and remains the leading preventable cause of cancer in Canada. Smoking cessation is an important cancer prevention strategy for the close to 2 million Canadian women who currently smoke. However, findings from controlled trials and real-world clinical …
Efficacy of a Smartphone App. Designed to Manage Craving & Individual Predictors of Substance Use/Addictive Behavior
Test the Efficacy of a smartphone application designed to manage craving and individual predictors of substance use / addictive behavior among individuals with addictive disorders
Pain and Upper Extremity Function in Smartphone and Digital Game Addiction
With the expansion of technology-based applications, daily phone use has increased significantly. According to a 2020 study, phone use habits among young adults aged 18-34 increased by 38.1%, and the time spent on the phone exceeding one hour increased by 68%. Currently, there is no clear definition of smartphone "addiction" …
The Use of tDCS for Vaping Reduction
Project Summary - tDCS for Vaping Reduction Background: While the prevalence of tobacco smoking has plateaued over the last several years, the prevalence of nicotine vaping (e-cigarettes) continues to increase exponentially in Canada. Originally touted as a safe alternative to smoking, e-cigarette use or vaping is now most popular among …
