[PDF] Top 20 The effects of reducing worry in patients with persecutory delusions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

... current persecutory delusion as defined by Freeman and Garety [2]; 2) scoring at least three on the conviction scale of the PSYRATS [26]; 3) that the delusion has per- sisted for at least three months; 4) a ... See full document

... The programme has three main components: (1) psy- choeducation and awareness of cognitive dysfunction in BD, including an emphasis on discovering each patient’s individual profile of cognitive dysfunction; (2) training ... See full document

... the study at any time for any reason. If any patients want to quit, clinicians will ask whether they agree to finish the follow-up according to the study ...All patients who quit and are lost ... See full document

... Dual-task interference, an indicator of gait automaticity, is defined by the difference between dual- and single-task performance [37]. To evaluate dual-task performance, cognitive dual-task walking [38] will be measured ... See full document

... Eighty-eight patients with KOA will be recruited and randomly assigned to the De Qi group (enhanced stimulation to evoke De Qi) and the control group (weak stimulation to avoid De Qi) in the Department of ... See full document

... this study of Ángeles Campos and Milagrosa Romero (Las Cabezas Primary Healthcare Centre, Sevilla-Sur Health District), and José Francisco Aguilar and Patricia Párraga (Morón Primary Healthcare Centre, Sevilla-Sur ... See full document

... Patients will be recruited from services across the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, which covers a population of 1.1 million. We will seek referrals from all relevant outpatient and inpatient clinical teams ... See full document

... domized controlled trials (RCTs) have been performed, demonstrating mixed results in efficacy ...the study cohorts, and antioxidants did not provide clear benefit in the cohort with a higher proportion of ... See full document

... domised controlled trial (‘The Self-Confidence Study’) with 30 patients with persistent persecutory delusions, principally used techniques to enhance positive self-beliefs in ... See full document

... allowed. Patients will be followed up with weekly pelvic ultrasound until twelve completed weeks of gestation or 1 week after the bleed- ing has stopped, whichever is ...adverse effects from drugs and the ... See full document

... The trial is called THRIVE (THerapeutic Realistic Immersive Virtual ...randomised controlled trial with single- blind assessment to test whether the automated VRCT will reduce persecutory ... See full document

... ized patients in high-quality randomized control trials has manifested novel evidence that acupuncture is superior to sham acupuncture and placebo for managing chronic pain ...individual patients has ... See full document

... The study compares CBR with TAU, the latter being the commonly offered pharmacological treatment to bi- polar ...entire study, all patients will be medicated accordingly to their clinical needs and ... See full document

... that effects of CCT on depressive symptomatology are preceded by changes in ...experimental study has directly tested this mediation ef- ...curative effects of CCT in MDD patients whereas only ... See full document

... of patients with a parastomal hernia will need surgical correction due to frequent leakage or life-threatening bowel obstruction or ...prospective randomized multicenter trial to determine if a ... See full document

... that patients scoring < 7 should undergo emergency LC, and patients scoring > 14 were to have ...In patients scoring between 7 and 14, opinions differed and no consensus was reached regarding ... See full document

... Secondary outcomes will be gestational age at birth, birth weight, adequacy of birth weight for gestational age, first and fifth minute Apgar score, neonatal gesta- tional age, overall, spontaneous and medical induced ... See full document

... the effects of exercise training with a sauna suit on heat acclimation and ...this study was to quantify the performance-related benefits to exercise training with a sauna ... See full document

... The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an inflammatory disease process of the lungs as a response to both direct and indirect insults, characterized clinic- ally by severe hypoxemia, reduced lung compliance, ... See full document

... day, patients were asked whether they would choose the same anes- thetic procedure: “ yes ” or “ no ” ...The study was blinded from the aspect of the patients; the anesthesiologist who administered ... See full document