Active clinical trials for "COVID-19"

Started on January 9, 2020 with the announcement of the discovery of a new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the Covid-19 pandemic is responsible as of June 21, 2020 for 160,377 confirmed cases in France, 29,640 deaths and 9,823 hospitalizations. The Grand Est region is one of the regions in France that was most precociously and strongly affected by the epidemic, in particular the Strasbourg University Hospital. Faced with the heavy use of the healthcare system, hospital staff of all categories are an essential resource to be preserved. Several studies have shown the significant impact of Covid-19 on doctors and caregivers. In order to better protect these personnel and avoid contamination that could be harmful to their health but also because of the consequences in terms of staff, it is necessary to better understand the risk factors for transmission of this infection, the means of protection, the evolution of the disease and the determinants of the return to work. Few studies have explored on such a large workforce and in detail the professional risk factors for developing Covid-19 within different groups of hospital professionals including also non-caregivers and the evolution when returning to work in an outpatient population.

The aim of our cohort is to collect prospectively, in a standardized and exhaustive manner, the health data of patients referred to the CAPCoV, our holistic referal post covid clinics for post-covid condition in order to be able to identify typical profiles of patients suffering from post covid syndrome and to follow the evolution of their disease over time.

The Study objective is to measure retinal neurovascular coupling and blood flow parameters in patients previously infected with COVID-19, long COVID-19 and healthy age- and sex- matched control subjects

The Grand Est region is one of the most affected regions in France during the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic. A significant increase in the number of patients hospitalized for SARS-CoV 2 infection at the University Hospitals of Strasbourg (HUS) led to a sudden saturation of their capacities. Hospital workers appear to be a population at particular risk for this new infectious agent. The percentage of hospital workers who have been in contact with the virus or have contracted COVID-19 is unknown. The objective of this work is to determine the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 positive serologies among hospital staff screened from June 22, 2020 to November 1, 2020 following a screening campaign offering serological testing to all volunteer HUS professionals.

The aim of the study is to make an accurate assessment of immune cells obtained from nasal mucosa and peripherial blood of MIS-C patients during the disease and the period of health.

In this study it is researched how preventive and curative healthcare for children with overweight and obesity was conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic, which barriers were noticed by professionals, and how new methods (such as e-health and telemonitorning) for coaching, communication and healthcare were used and experienced.

Evaluation of the effectiveness of a training and support intervention for general practitioners treating patients with persistent symptoms after a COVID-19 episode on the patients'quality of life at 3 months.

Vaccine hesitancy is defined as 'delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines, despite the availability of vaccine service' and was named one of the top ten global health threats by the World Health Organization in 2019. Our proposed study will aim to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a Web-based psychoeducation programme to address Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy, 'AI-driven Vaccine Communicator' (including educational materials, animations of vaccine research and development, and an MI communication skills-based AI, digital assistant). Our goal is to standardise our intervention so that it can serve as an effective toolkit for clinicians/healthcare providers to increase Hong Kong residents' motivation to vaccinate and to ensure that the programme can be adapted to viral mutations and newly developed vaccines in the medium/long term.

This study will optimize, implement, and test the impact of our multicomponent health program that includes three primary implementation strategies (Cultural Weavers and co-creation, mHealth strategies using culturally meaningful text and voice messages, and care coordination). The investigators will use a participatory approach to engage community members in co-creating and optimizing our mHealth outreach and enhanced care coordination program components. The investigators will use a hybrid type 3 effectiveness-implementation sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) design to assess the impact of our multicomponent health program on implementation and outcome measures.

The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted the medical system both directly but also through incomplete recovery from the virus in the form of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC). PASC affects at least 9.6 million individuals as of May 2022 and continues to affect many more. PASC is a multisystem disorder often presenting with mental fog, dyspnea on exertion, and fatigue among other symptoms. The etiology of PASC is uncertain but theories include direct cytotoxicity, dysregulated immune responses, endotheliitis associated with microthrombi, eNOS uncoupling, and myocardial fibrosis with impaired ventricular compliance. To date, there are no established treatments. Exercise has the potential as a therapeutic option to improve VO2peak and improve each of the aforementioned underlying etiologies. The investigators plan to examine the effect of High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and Moderate intensity exercise training (MOD) on the symptoms and exercise tolerance of patients with PASC. The investigators approach will consist of a randomized, blinded, 2-arm, parallel-group design. Enrolled subjects will be randomly assigned to one of two groups in a 1:1 allocation ratio. All groups will undergo a 4-week intervention of 3 days of HIIT per week and 2 days of MOD per week or control of light stretching and controlled breathing. Subjects will be assessed before and after the 4-week intervention to examine the extent to which 4 weeks of the HIIT and MOD combination improves VO2peak and left ventricular diastolic function, global longitudinal strain (GLS), and global circumferential strain (GCS). Further, the investigators will explore changes in markers such as heart rate, heart rhythm, blood pressure, quality of life, exercise tolerance, and PASC symptoms as well as blood/serum markers.