Status and Predictors of Mental Health Symptoms Among Migrants and Refugees During the COVID-19...
MigrantsAnxiety1 moreMigrants and refugees are vulnerable subgroups in general with regards to symptoms of psychopathology. Furthermore, recent calls for paper urge investigation on current mental health status of migrants and refugees during the pandemic, as different barriers such as lack of emotional support from relatives, in addition to language barriers potentially impairing comprehension about the pandemic having the chance to increase symptoms of psychopathology such as anxiety and depression. This study seeks to investigate the levels of mental health symptoms (i.e., depression, general anxiety, and health anxiety) among immigrants and refugees in Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Demographic factors will be investigated to identify subgroups with increased risk of meeting clinically significant depression and anxiety symptoms, as established by validated cut-offs to be elaborated below. Furthermore, transdiagnostic predictors which may prove as useful intervention targets will be investigated.
Barrier Measures to Limit Covid-19.Nosocomial Transmission: a Cross-sectional Evaluation
CaregiversCOVID-19Use lay language. The Covid-19 pandemic hit France in March 2020 and stage 3 of the epidemic justified the introduction of national and unprecedented containment measures from March 17, 2020. The Montpellier CHU experienced peak hospitalizations of Covid-19 infections in late March. The estimate of the proportion of infected people in Occitania, South of France, for the 11th of May 2020 is 3.1% (95% CI: 1.9-5.9) for the Occitania region, to which Montpellier belongs. In the context of the Covid-19 epidemic, notably due to the absence of pharmacological or vaccine prophylaxis, barrier measures were of crucial importance, especially for exposed caregivers. These measures include an adaptation of individual behavior, the creation of a so-called "Covid" hospital, the wearing of specific equipment in all departments, the use in the rooms of Covid-19 patients of a gown, an apron, gloves, and a FFP2 type mask in the event of contact and sampling, protocolized and standardized bio-cleaning measures, a reorganization of the premises and the definition of specific circuits. In view of the second wave of the epidemic, estimating the effectiveness of the barrier measures is of major importance. The investigators therefore propose an evaluation of the effectiveness of these measures, by comparing the serological prevalence of infection among caregivers working directly in COVID units compared to caregivers working in services excluding the management of Covid-19 patients. Systematic evaluation in COVID-19 units of Sarc-Co-V2 infection will also be assessed, with naso-pharyngeal swabs.
Cardiac Injury in COVID-19: a Pathology Study
COVID-19The primary goal of the study is to conduct the first systematic cardiac autopsy study in 60 patients dying from COVID-19 to understand the pathology and pathogenesis of cardiac injury in patients with COVID-19, with/without cardiovascular comorbidities. Such data is essential for understanding rate of involvement, type of involvement and degree of injury in patients contracting the disease.
To Access the Egyptian COVID-19 Whole Genome by NGS and Compare to the International Worldwide Database...
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)This is an exploratory study that will be performed on confirmed positive COVID-19 samples to identify the dominant viral genome strain in Egyptians using next generation sequencing (NGS).
Retrospective Study on Severe Respiratory Illness to Access the Presence of COVID-19
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)COVID-19Retrospective study from November 2019 -Febrauary 2020 on severe respiratory illness to access the presence or absence of COVID-19 in patients samples by real-time PcR
Determination of the Effectiveness of Oral Chlorine Dioxide in the Treatment of COVID 19
COVID-19Abstract The objective of this study is to review, through prospective case research, the efficacy of oral chlorine dioxide in the treatment of patients with COVID infection 19. The research will be carried out between April and June 2020 with a quasi-experimental design in two health care centers on a sample of twenty (20) patients, through direct intervention, who will measure the changes in the manifest symptoms of infection and negativity. a COVID 19 after administration of the study preparation, to determine the effectiveness of chlorine dioxide in the treated group. Based on the results that are found and on the evaluation of efficacy on the basis of clinical improvement on a scale of 1 to 5, and of the negativization of COVID 19, we can conclude whether the therapeutic efficacy in this investigation is considered good by verifying whether or not there is efficacy of treatment with chlorine dioxide in COVID 19. With this research, it is hoped to stimulate the search for new therapeutic options in the treatment of COVID 19 and contribute to the development of NEW options in medications, considering the immense number of deaths and morbidity that currently exists in the present pandemic. Key words: COVID 19, chlorine dioxide, treatment.
Outcomes of Elective Cancer Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
COVID-19Coronavirus2 moreCovidSurg-Cancer is an international, multicentre, observational cohort study designed to evaluate the 30-day COVID-19 infection rates in elective cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Centres can elect to include one or more cancer types in the study, in any combination, depending on local expertise and capacity. During the pilot study, investigators should enrol patients with confirmed diagnoses of: Colorectal cancer Oesophagogastric cancer As a rapid response study to the COVID-19 pandemic, included cancer types will evolve throughout the course of the CovidSurg-Cancer study period, for example, to include breast, liver, pancreatic, gynaecological, urological cancers, or sarcomas.
COVID-19 Hyperinflammation Syndrome (COV-HI): Protocol for a Rapidly Executed Cohort Study
COV-HICOVID-191 moreBased on emerging experience and trials from countries affected early by the COVID-19 (COV19) pandemic, there is evidence that a subgroup of severely affected people develop a hyperinflammatory (HI) syndrome (COV-HI). Trials are in progress of cytokine inhibition and other immune modulation to treat COV-HI. This proposal aims to use a rapidly executed cohort study to characterise the clinical phenotypes of COV-HI in patients in the UK through an established and nimble network of clinicians and scientists with broad experience of identifying and treating HI. The aim is to confirm the COV-HI clinical phenotype and using routine data to try to infer the inflexion point where COV-HI emerges. This would enable refinement of the proposed treatment algorithm and translates to routine clinical practice to improve the outlook for COV-HI.
Assessment of Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 in Brazil (AVISA)
COVID-19This is an observational study, meaning that no interventions is tested, to determine incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 in different clinical sites in Brazil in several age groups. The study aims to assess baseline number of infected participants and perform a follow-up along two years to determine the new cases occurring among participants during the period. All participants will collect blood samples to get more details on the immune response.
Assessment of Endothelial and Haemostatic Changes During Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Covid-19Endothelial Dysfunction2 moreThe outbreak at covid-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This virus can be responsible for severe respiratory failure but also for extra-respiratory organ dysfunctions associated with severe inflammatory stress. The endothelium is an important structure of the blood vessels and is implicated in the organ failure of many patients admitted in intensive care units. It could be affected by the virus and its alteration may explain the organ dysfunction of covid-19 ICU patients as well as the thrombotic processes frequently obstructed in this infection.