Found 1,204 clinical trials
Advancing Family Wellbeing Through a Massive Open Online Intervention: The LightBEAM Program
Early childhood is a critical period for developmental outcomes, and the parent-child relationship plays a vital role in shaping cognitive and social development. However, elevated parental distress (e.g., depression, anxiety, anger) can disrupt healthy relationships, increasing the risk of negative child outcomes such as difficult temperaments, altered cognitive development, and …
Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation for Apnea Detected by Capnography
After surgery, patients often recover in a special area called the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU). Patients may receive pain medications either during the surgery or afterward in the PACU. While these medications are important for controlling pain, some of them can slow down breathing. To ensure patients' breathing remains …
Modulating Exercise Dosage to Improve Concussion Recovery
Aerobic exercise has emerged as an effective treatment to reduce sport-related concussion symptom severity, yet existing work lacks rigor regarding the precise exercise volume and intensity required to elicit therapeutic effects, how exercise can alter concussion-related pathophysiology, and whether exercise can prevent the development of secondary sequelae. Our objective is …
Change in Social Media Use and Well-being Among College Students Receiving a Two-week Exercise or Mindfulness Intervention
The investigators will be randomizing 300 college student participants with high levels of social media use into either a 1) control condition (no intervention), a 2) mindfulness meditation cognitive intervention, or 3) a social media reduction + exercise replacement intervention. Participants complete intervention activities daily for two weeks. The investigators …
Test of Target Engagement of Ambiguity Aversion
The present work aims to test whether a single session intervention alters ambiguity aversion, both in terms of people's decision making and their brain responses to ambiguous choices.
Pharmacy-led Transitions of Care Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence
Socioeconomically disadvantaged populations with multiple chronic conditions have high rates of nonadherence to essential chronic disease medications after hospital discharge. Medication nonadherence after hospital discharge is significantly associated with increased mortality and higher rates of readmissions and costs among these patients. Major patient-reported barriers to essential medication use after hospital …
Brief Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia Versus Sleep Hygiene for Sleep Difficulties in Early Pregnancy
Pregnant and postpartum individuals often have difficulty sleeping and these sleep problems can negatively impact both the parent and infant. Research suggests that pregnant individuals prefer non-medication-based treatment for their sleep difficulties but there is a lack of research on the success of sleep treatment during pregnancy. Currently, there are …
Creative Arts Program to Reduce Burnout in Healthcare Professionals
This study plans to learn if creative arts programs that include visual, musical, written, or physical expression can reduce symptoms of burnout syndrome, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety in critical care healthcare professionals. This study also explores if creative arts can enhance the connection to the purpose …
Psychological Adjustment to Long-term (PAL) Physical Conditions: A Randomised Cross-over Feasibility Trial of a Self-guided App
This study is a two-arm, randomised controlled cross-over feasibility study with a nested, optional qualitative study and nested, optional, non-invasive brain activity study. The intervention consists of a self-guided smartphone app (Orbi) based on cognitive behavioural therapy principles, which is designed to support psychological adjustment in long-term physical conditions. Orbi …
Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Intervention in Primary Care: A Pilot Study
The pilot study on the impact of a Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Intervention in Primary Care Medical Consultations in French-speaking Switzerland (PLIMeC-P), is a mixed method randomized controlled trial. The investigated health-related intervention is a brief Consultation-Liaison (CL) psychiatry intervention in primary care. Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) have a key role in …
