Active clinical trials for "COVID-19"

The purpose of this study is to compare the mother-infant emotional connection formed during the pandemic in standard care (SC) versus Family Nurture Intervention (FNI) pairs, an evidence-based intervention designed to counteract the adverse effects of maternal-infant disconnection. In prior research on preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), FNI participants demonstrated increased quality of maternal caregiving behaviors and significant improvements in premature infants' neurodevelopment across multiple domains, including social-relatedness and attention problems. Goals of FNI include assisting mothers in providing appropriate types of stimulation for their babies that are important for social, emotional, and neurobehavioral development as well as reducing stress physiology in both mother and infant. Data gathered in this study will help the investigators learn more about the underlying mechanisms that take place during mother-infant interactions and examine how these play a role in setting the infant up for the best neurodevelopmental trajectory. Intervention will be conducted electronically both in the Well Baby Nursery (WBN) and at home over the following 4 months. Assessments will consist of videos of mother-infant interactions at the time of each intervention session, and pediatrician-led follow-up surveys conducted in the linked Institutional Review Board-approved study.

Nursing homes are ground zero for the COVID-19 pandemic. Nursing homes are ill-equipped for the pandemic; though facilities are required to have infection control staff, only 3% have taken a basic infection control course. Significant research has focused on infection control in the acute care setting. However, little is known about the implementation of practices and effective interventions in long-term care facilities.The investigators propose an intervention utilizing Project ECHO, an evidence-based telehealth model, to connect Penn State University experts with remote nursing home staff and administrators to proactively support evidence-based infection control guideline implementation. Our study seeks to answer the critical research question of how evidence-based infection control guidelines can be implemented effectively in nursing homes

SCTV01C-02-1 is a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled Phase Ⅰ/Ⅱ clinical trial of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) recombinant bivalent trimeric S protein vaccine manufactured by Sinocelltech, Ltd. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety , tolerability and immunogenicity of the experimental vaccine in healthy adults aged ≥ 18 Years previously unvaccinated.

The study will focus on cardiac blood and imaging biomarkers to facilitate early recognition of patients at risk for myocardial injury after COVID-19 vaccination. Ultimately, the intention is to identify patients at risk, reduce adverse events, and determine the need for longer-term follow-up in patients with myocardial injury after vaccination.

This study aims to address evidence gaps regarding the safety, reactogenicity and immune responses of a heterologous boost of a single dose of Ad26.COV2.S (half or full dose) at pre-specified time intervals in recipients who are documented to have received either 1-dose or 2-doses (primary series completion) of inactivated COVID-19 vaccines, Sinovac and/or Sinopharm.

The present study is a prospective phase IV study. All participants will receive the anti-Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccine (messenger Ribonucleic acid-based vaccine, BNT162b2 or Comirnaty®, commercialized by Pfizer-BioNTech) being authorized in the European Union since December 2020. The vaccine is administered intramuscularly after dilution as a series of two doses at least 21 days apart.

COVAC Uganda is a study that is looking at the use of an innovative self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) vaccine (LNP-nCOV saRNA-02) against the virus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19 and assessing the immune response in SARS-CoV-2 antibody seronegative and seropositive individuals. saRNA is designed to amplify the quantity of RNA upon injection to produce further antigen, thereby enabling lower doses for administration. In the trial "COVAC1", Imperial College London is currently evaluating one COVID-19 saRNA vaccine candidate in doses from 0.1-10ug for individuals who are seronegative for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies at baseline. Interim analyses of COVAC1 has shown a dose dependent response; however, up to 50% of seronegative participants receiving doses of 2.5-10ug do not seroconvert. The investigators hypothesize that a lack of seroconversion is due to type I and III interferon (IFN) production, which can inhibit translation and degrade cellular mRNA. Another variable that can enhance antibody production is serological history: recent studies have shown that seropositive individuals respond significantly better than naïve individuals who received the Pfizer or Moderna RNA-based COVID-19 vaccine. Therefore, designing the saRNA backbone to dampen IFN production and evaluating this in individuals seropositive at baseline will inform the optimised use of this innovative technology. In COVAC Uganda, the investigators aim to test an saRNA vaccine modified to dampen the activation of type I and III IFN, to increase antibody production, for individuals who are seronegative and seropositive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies at baseline, to evaluate whether people with pre-existing seropositivity have enhanced immune responses compared to those without. This trial is NOT looking at whether or not the vaccine is effective in terms of protection. It is just assessing whether and how well the immune system responds based on SARS-CoV-2 antibodies at baseline and its safety.

COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2 virus) was declared a global pandemic by the WHO on 11th March 2020. Currently there are no drugs proven to prevent COVID-19 or to reduce the severity of illness if given as prophylaxis. Although vaccines are now available, there remains a need for other prophylactic agents until vaccine use becomes widespread globally and effectiveness and durability is established, particularly in immunocompromised individuals, for whom vaccine responses may be suboptimal. Efforts are underway to repurpose established drugs with well understood drug interactions and safety profiles. PROTECT-V is a platform trial to test prophylactic interventions against SARS-CoV2 infection in vulnerable patient populations at particularly high risk of COVID-19 and its complications, seeking to identify treatments that either might prevent the disease from occurring or may reduce the number of cases where the disease becomes serious or life-threatening. In PROTECT-V, multiple agents can be evaluated on the same platform across vulnerable populations, with the option of adding additional treatments at later time points as these become available. The expectation is for as many sites as possible to recruit to all available trial treatments at any time, however, the platform structure and randomisation/data collection systems allow sites to open the trial treatment arms according to their capacity. The trial opened with intranasal niclosamide and matched placebo, aiming to recruit 1500 vulnerable renal patients in February 2021. A parallel study protocol, will be conducted in India, sponsored by The George Institute. Recruitment of approximately 750 Indian patients will commence in February 2022. The second agent, intranasal and inhaled ciclesonide and matched placebo, will be added to the platform in early 2022 in the same renal patient population. Sotrovimab and matched placebo will be added to the platform in early 2022 in patients who have mounted sub-optimal vaccine responses to vaccines against SARS CoV-2.

This project seeks to test the efficacy of a brief eHealth intervention in an international randomized controlled trial (RCT) to increase COVID-19 knowledge and protective behaviors, and reduce psychological distress among LGBT people. This project involves enrolling racially diverse samples of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in three cities, randomizing 900 people (stratified among cisengender men, cisgender women, and transgender people) to either the immediate behavioral intervention or the waitlist control condition. Participants will complete a baseline survey, a follow-up survey 2 weeks post-intervention, and a final survey 2 months after the post-intervention survey. Primary outcomes are COVID-19 transmission knowledge, COVID-19 protective behaviors, and psychological distress.

The goal of the research is to assess candidate COVID-19 rapid diagnostic tests (e.g. immunodiagnostic antibody tests, like Cellex qSARS-CoV-2 IgG/IgM Rapid Test, or antigen tests, like Turklab Test-It COVID-19 Home Test, AllBio Science Inc. and Artron Laboratories Inc. rapid COVID-19 antigen tests in order to judge their clinical accuracy compared to Centers for Disease Control (CDC)-recommended molecular genetic testing and clinical diagnosis. Second, it is our goal to determine if self-testing assisted by COVIDscanDX mobile device camera acquisition software platform and telemedicine clinical/technical support (virtual point-of-care) improves the ease of use and immediate interpretation of the tests, thus making self-testing comparable in accuracy and safety to testing in a clinical setting. Third, we are testing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 after diagnosis with COVID-19 or following vaccination to measure the onset and time course of detectable antibodies from finger-stick blood drops and rapid antibody lateral flow tests. The overall purpose of the study is to dramatically increase the capacity of COVID-19 testing by establishing the safety, ease-of-use and validity of self-testing assisted by mobile device imaging and telemedicine remote support and provide evidence of antibody time-course response to vaccination.