Acute Pain Clinical Trials

The proposed research will develop, refine, and pilot test the Pain Identification and Communication Toolkit (PICT), an intervention to help family caregivers of community-dwelling persons with dementia identify pain symptoms and communicate those symptoms to health care providers. Informed by self-efficacy theory, PICT will include: a) training in administering an …

This is a cluster-randomized controlled trial including patients with dementia and pain living at different wards at eight nursing homes. About 12 nursing homes are selected to participate in Trondheim and in Oslo. All patients at the included nursing homes will be screened with respect to dementia and pain (see …

A waitlist pilot study will be conducted to examine the feasibility of a 4-week APA intervention. Participants and their caregivers will be enrolled into the study. Following the baseline assessment (1st home visit), participants will wait one month and will be randomized to an interventionist or caregiver-training group. Both groups …

Chronic pain is one of the most prevalent, disabling, and persistent comorbid conditions associated with physical disabilities, including limb loss, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and chronic neurodegenerative conditions such as multiple sclerosis. One half to two-thirds of adults with these conditions experience chronic pain. In addition to being …

Acute neck pain is often caused by mechanical causes and can be classified as rheumatic diseases, infectious and tumoral pathologies, metabolic bone diseases such as osteoporosis and osteomalacia, pain reflected the cervical region. A-V malformation and syringomyelia are the causes of chronic cervical pain (5). Mechanical neck pain is a …

Background: Chronic pain affects 40-70% of Veterans and amounts to over $600 billion/year in direct medical costs and lost worker productivity. Racial disparities in pain treatment have been extensively documented. Minority patients, including Veterans, are more likely to be undertreated for pain. Minority Veterans have pain documented less frequently, undergo …

Every year 350 patients undergo surgery due to colorectal cancer at Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde. The vast majority of the patients has to have part of their colon removed, a so-called hemicolectomy. The majority of the surgeries are performed using a minimal invasive laparoscopic technique where the bowl anastomosis is …

This screening protocol is designed to facilitate patient recruitment to the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) clinical research studies on pain and fatigue syndromes. This protocol will also validate the newly developed Saligan Fatigue Questionnaire. Patients must meet the specific requirements of an IRB-approved research study; this protocol serves …

A growing body of literature suggests that animal-assisted interventions (AAI) have important clinical effects on humans, e.g. decreased physiological stress, reduction of depression and anxiety symptoms and reduction in pain perception and experience. Such evidence leads to an increased interest in using AAI in clinical practice. However, it is still …

In September 2019, the validation study 1.0 started, in which the cTnI result of the Siemens POC device on three sample types are compared. Interim analysis of the sample comparison was performed by regression analysis using Passing and Bablock, and calculating the Pearson correlation coefficient. The Li-hep Plasma vs Li-hep …