Men's Health Clinical Trials

During year one, the multi-disciplinary research team will work closely with the expert and community Advisory Panel and consultants to adapt the standard NDPP curriculum in order to promote increased engagement of men. "Engagement" is defined in this proposal to include recruitment, group participation and retention in the 16-week program. ...

Overall study design: This study will be structured as a randomised control trial with two exercise treatment groups and one 'control' group. All three groups will undergo 14-days of reduced activity by restricting daily walking to less than 1,500 steps. One group will undertake four weeks of resistance exercise pre-training ...

ESTEEM (Effective Skills to Empower Effective Men) is a 10-session skills-building intervention designed to reduce young gay and bisexual men's (YGBM) co-occurring health risks by reducing the underlying cognitive, affective, and behavioral pathways through which minority stress impairs YGBM's health. ESTEEM is based on the Unified Protocol, a cognitive-behavioral therapy ...

Osteoporosis in men is an important yet an understudied debilitating disease. To date, most therapies are directed towards postmenopausal osteoporosis, and the efficacy of these therapies is not established for male osteoporosis. Therefore, due to concerns regarding the increasing prevalence of male osteoporosis and minimal treatment options available, it is ...

GPS is a sexual health promotion and HIV prevention peer-delivered counselling program. The GPS program has 4 parts: information provision about HIV and sexually transmitted infections, motivational interviewing counselling, sexual health behavioural skills building, and linkage to care. The adaptation grant has three goals: 1) to establish a multi-region and ...

Despite the benefits associated with lifestyle changes, men are less likely than women to engage in healthy lifestyle behaviours. Many men are reluctant and/or 'hard-to-reach', making it difficult to implement chronic illness prevention initiatives. Traditionally, a central challenge associated with engaging men in their health were perceptions that attention to ...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To test whether the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) lifestyle intervention (versus [vs.] control) improves serum fasting glucose. II. To test whether the DPP lifestyle intervention (vs. control) improves serum biomarkers of glucose regulation (insulin, C-peptide, insulin-like growth factor-1 [IGF-1], IGF binding protein 3 [IGF-BP3] and adiponectin). III. ...

Primary Objective: Among Canadian male workers who are at high risk of having major depressive episode (MDE), to evaluate the impacts of an e-mental health intervention and telephone-based job coaching on the 12-month risk proportion of MDE. MDE will be measured by the WHO's CIDI-SFMD. Hypothesis: The risk proportions of ...

The purpose of this study is to test a comprehensive, male-oriented, online screening and referral (Screening for Mental Health; SMH) and male-oriented online information and referral intervention program (Man Therapy; MT) to improve mental health and wellbeing with a focus on prevention of suicide and help-seeking behaviors among middle-aged men. ...

African Americans are heavily burdened with preventable and treatable diseases, including cardiovascular disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and cancers. African Americans have the highest age-adjusted death rates for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS compared with other Americans. The broad objective of this research is to ...