Active clinical trials for "Behavior, Addictive"

Background and aim: The use of smartphones, which has reached the level of addiction causes some physical and psychological health problems. The aim was to examine the musculoskeletal disorders of the neck and upper extremities of mobile phone addiction in a population of young adults. Methods: The study is a cross sectional research conducted on students of a university in İstanbul between December 2018-October 2020. The level of addiction was assessed with the Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Form (SAS-SF). The posture of participants was evaluated by New York Posture Rating Chart (NYPRC), mostly usage smartphone posture, forward head and myofascial trigger points were questioned according to Simon and Travel criteria. Mann-Whitney U test Pearson's chi-squared test were used for analyzing the data.

Background: - The risk for becoming addicted to drugs varies among individual, even those using similar drugs in a similar way. It is not known why some people become addicted and others do not. Studies suggest that some genes may increase the risk of addiction. Negative life experiences may also affect the risk of addiction. Researchers want to test smokers and nonsmokers to study genetic and brain function traits that may lead to drug addiction. Objectives: - To understand brain function in people who may be at a higher risk of drug addiction. Eligibility: Healthy volunteers between 18 and 55 years of age. Smokers (10 to 30 cigarettes per day for more than 2 years) and nonsmokers will be eligible. Design: Participants will be screened with a physical exam and medical history. They will be tested for drug and alcohol use. A blood sample will be collected. The study will involve one visit. Participants will have a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. At the visit, participants will answer questions about their health and drug use habits. They will then be trained on the tasks they will do during the MRI scan. After the training, they will have the scan and perform the tasks. The scan and tasks will look at brain function related to rewards and impulsiveness. Other computer tests will be given after the scan. These tests will measure learning, memory, and impulsiveness.

Objective: Analgesic Opioids misuse among patients with chronic pain ranges from 0% to 50%. The general practitioner is the first prescriber of opioid analgesics Our objective was to validate in primary care the POMI (Prescription Opioid Misuse Index) to identify the misuse of AOs. Study Setting: Patients with chronic pain, taking AOs for at least 3 months, and followed in general practice. Study design: Psychometric study Data Collection/Extraction methods: Eligible patients followed in general practice responded to the POMI: Test phase. They then responded after 2 weeks: the retest. The gold standard used was the DSM-V.

In the proposed study, the investigators will assess the brain response to medication probes the investigators have previously studied with SPECT. The brain response to ondansetron and lidocaine infusions will be measured Arterial Spin Labeling and functional connectivity MRI (fcMRI).

The demand for addiction care for patients with addiction to analgesics increases with the number of prescription of analgesics grade 2; this is a public health problem There is no support for repositories to date in the context of addiction analgesics grade 2. Risk factors of misuse as well as diagnostic tools were identified.

The purpose of this study is to identify alterations of motivational processes related to decision making in uncertainty condition associated with gambling addiction: by studying the dynamics between brain systems involved in decision making and motivation.

Smartphone Impact Scale (SIS) was originally developed in English to determine the cognitive, affective, social, and behavioral impacts of smartphones in everyday life. The purpose of this study was to translate and cross-culturally adapt the SIS instrument into Turkish and investigate its psychometric properties.

Obesity is a big health problem worldwide. Mostly obese people have food addiction and bad eating habits. Bariatric surgery is a good alternative for patients who failed to loose weight with other measures like behavioral changes, activities and sports, diet, etc.. The investigators know the changes occurred after surgery in eating habits due to restrictive and malabsorptive feature of the surgery performed. There is no study in the literature to measure these changes. The investigators will try to detect these kind of behavioral changes by a survey before and after surgery.

The current containment linked to COVID-19 will have consequences for people suffering from addiction and there is a risk of overdoses when the containment ends. So the investigators hypothesize that this health crisis is an opportunity to develop risk reduction and access to care for vulnerable people who lives with an addiction. The main objective of this study is to describe the changes in the psychoactive substances consumption during the containment in people suffering from addiction. The secondary objectives are to describe the evolution at 1 month from the end of the containment of problematic consumption and the level of access to care of these users

STRIDE2 is a longitudinal, non-randomized study of individuals living with HIV who are dependent on opioids. This study is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA030768, Altice, PI; Taxman & Lawson, Co-PIs) and is being conducted by George Mason University, Yale University, and Howard University.