Active clinical trials for "COVID-19"

Introduction: The World Health Organization has launched the INSPIRE-ICOPE-CARE program towards healthy aging. It includes "intrinsic capacity", defined as "the composite of all the physical and mental capacities of an individual", which has a positive value towards prevention, and is constructed by five domains: cognition, vitality/nutrition, sensory, psychology, and mobility. ICOPE App and ICOPE Monitor are applications for the self-assessment and monitoring of intrinsic capacity. Hypothesis: Intrinsic capacity self-assessed by the ICOPE Apps could be associated with the incidence of frailty and health outcomes. ICOPE Apps might support geriatric and primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Objectives: To assess the association between intrinsic capacity measured by the ICOPE Apps at baseline and the incidence of frailty in community-dwelling older adults during 1-year follow-up. Secondarily, to assess the association of intrinsic capacity and pre-frailty, falls, functional decline, institutionalization, and mortality (COVID-19-related/not related). Methods: Protocol for a cohort study of community-dwelling adults ≥65-year-old, with no other exclusion criteria than the inability to use the Apps or communicate by telephone/video-call for any reason (cognitive or limited access to telephone/video-call). Intrinsic capacity measured by the ICOPE Apps and Rockwood's clinical frailty scale will be assessed at baseline, 4-, 8- and 12-month follow-up by telephone/video-call. Assuming a prevalence of frailty of 10.7%, and incidence of 13% (alpha-risk=0.05), 400 participants at 12-month end-point (relative precision=0.10) and 600 participants at baseline will be required. Associations among the decrease in intrinsic capacity, incidence of frailty, and occurrence of health adverse outcomes during 1-year follow-up are expected. ICOPE Apps might identify individuals at higher risk of frailty and health adverse consequences. The implementation of the ICOPE Apps into clinical practice might help to bring the practitioners closer to their patients, deliver efficient person-centered care-plans, and benefit the healthcare systems during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Brief Summary: Purpose of this study is to evaluate efficacy of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in reducing progression of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID - 19) and achieving viral clearance. Condition or disease :I COVID-19 ntervention/treatment :Drug: Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate Phase: Phase III

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of an augmented version of our current evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Group Therapy (CBGT) for perinatal anxiety protocol with cognitive and behavioural strategies composed of critical COVID-related anxiety, worry, and impact content.

The innovative drug XC221 100 mg tablet is designed for the treatment of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 infection). A multicenter, adaptive, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III clinical study is aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of XC221 100 mg tablet, in COVID-19 patients during a 14-day treatment. The primary objective of the study is to demonstrate the efficacy of XC221 100 mg tablet (200 mg daily dose) in achieving clinical improvement of COVID-19 symptoms. The secondary objective of the study is to evaluate the safety of XC221 100 mg tablet (200 mg daily dose) in COVID-19 patients.

The main objective of the current study is to search predictors of non-invasive respiratory support failure, like high -flow oxygen system (HFO) and pressure systems, Bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP) and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), in patients with acute hypoxemia produced by COVID-19 pneumonia. In the first phase, we will do a retrospective review of the intermediate respiratory care unit activity from March to May 2020 in the target population. In the second phase development an interventional study. At admission all patients will be treated with HFS monitoring clinical variables like respiratory frequency, oxygen saturation, gasometer results and oxygen inspiration fraction. In case of HFO failure, the patients will be randomized to treatment with CPAP or BIPAP. The same clinical variables will be monitoring to analysis their prediction capacity of failure therapy, defined as mortality or need to intubation. The results will be adjusted comorbidity grade, age and initial severity pneumonia. Secondary objectives of study are 90 days mortality, functional recovery at 90 days and to realise a cost-effectiveness valuation of non-invasive respiratory supports in this disease.

According to preexisting data, it has revealed the fundamental role that aerosols play in the transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), producing particle smaller than 5 microns, was regarded as 'aerosol-generating procedures' (AGPs) associated with an increased risk of transmission of respiratory pathogens to healthcare workers. The strategies aim to reduce spreading of aerosol during the procedure should be beneficial. Using an acrylic box to cover the head of a patient undergoing an endoscopy seems to reduce aerosol scatter and reduce the spread of respiratory pathogens. At present, there are no high-quality studies that provide quantitative data on the use of head box to reduce aerosol generation.

The infectious coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19), caused by corona virus SARS-severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused significant disruption in surgical services to patients globally. Data from the COVIDSurg Cohort Study suggest mortality rates of patients infected with SARS-Cov-2 in the peri-operative period of up to 25.6% in emergency surgery and 18.9% in elective surgery. Based on estimates by the COVIDSurg Collaborative, large numbers of elective surgical procedures are cancelled. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced healthcare providers to 'shift from patient-centred ethics to public health ethics'. This has had impact on pre-operative testing for COVID-19, and scheduling of surgery. Currently, a provisional recommendation to delay surgery for at least four weeks after a positive COVID test, exists. Weighing the risk of surgery and potential complications during the COVID-19 pandemic, against the benefit of undergoing a surgical procedure to improve quality of life, remains difficult. A study to determine the long term effect of the pandemic on patient-reported outcome may provide guidance on how to safely return to surgical activity that are again more focused on individualized care. There is also the opportunity to record outcomes that are currently accepted as the standard for understanding longer term recovery after surgery.

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, adaptive, seamless phase I / II clinical study of the safety and immunogenicity of a recombinant viral vector AAV5-RBD-S vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus infection (COVID-19)

[Aim] Purpose of the study: to analyze the effect of vitamin D supplementation in reducing COVID-19 morbidity and severity in healthcare workers. The study will involve a minimum of 120 medical staff. All participants in the study will assess twice for serum 25(OH)D level: baseline and after 3 months of Vitamin D supplementation. After the baseline examination, the subjects will be randomized into 2 groups. In the first (No. 1), vitamin D therapy will initiate at a dosage of 50,000 IU on the first and second week, followed by a switch to a daily intake of 5,000 IU for 3 months. In the second group (No. 2), vitamin D therapy will prescribe for 3 months at a dosage of 2,000 IU/day. After 3 months of vitamin D supplementation, all participants will undergo to repeat testing of serum 25(OH)D level with an assessment of the effectiveness of the therapy. Body mass index (BMI), height, weight, SARS-CoV-2 antibodies (IgG), 25-hydroxycalciferol (25(OH)D) and presence of acute viral infection futures, parameters assessed after treatment.

This is an interventional, multi-center, randomized study. Adults with confirmed covid-19 disease not more than 10 days before enrollment date were recruited (n=361). Patients in same condition who had treated with standard of care were randomly assigned to the control group (n=178). The investigators analyzed the effect of a herbal compound, Xagrotin, and also investigated impact of different characteristics for instance gender, age, duration of disease, smoking habits and concomitant diseases on the outcome.