Clinical trials

Regular exercise can improve function and quality of life as well as have other positive behavioral and health-related benefits in people Parkinson's disease (PD). Despite the benefits, insufficient exercise is common among PD individuals, often due to common barriers, emphasizing the importance of empowering individuals with adequate knowledge and self-management skills. This project aims to develop "Engage-Qatar PD," an online physical activity self-management program for people with PD in Qatar. Engage-Qatar PD will be grounded in a previously developed coaching intervention used in people with Huntington's disease (Engage HD) and people with PD. The main focus of this project will be the development work to adapt this intervention for online delivery for people with PD and within the Qatari context. This development stage will entail participatory design, in which users will be actively involved as co-designers to ensure fully the required cultural adaptations. Following this development phase, a pilot randomized controlled trial will be conducted to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and potential benefits of the developed intervention. The innovative approach proposed for this project would have wide-reaching impact, advancing the development of new therapeutic options. It will deliver a realistic, culturally adapted therapeutic option for people with PD in Qatar that has the potential to be implemented in a variety of healthcare settings and other countries in the region. Importantly, future work could replicate this program in a larger cohort of individuals with other neurodegenerative diseases and extend this work to other countries in the region.

This randomised controlled trial aims to compare treatment outcomes between pulpotomy and pulpectomy when used to treat vital primary molars diagnosed with symptomatic irreversible pulpitis. Compared to the standard pulpectomy treatment, pulpotomy is a technically simpler procedure, less time consuming, easier for young patients to tolerate, while retaining the proprioceptive sensation of the tooth - all important advantages when treating young children.

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a condition that can affect pregnant women during pregnancy and may cause complications for the mother and the baby. Therefore, early and accurate detection is necessary to provide the woman and the baby with better health outcomes. Currently, the most commonly used criteria to detect GDM is the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG) criterion. However, there is a suggestion that it results in over-diagnosis of GDM, and newer methods of diagnosis have been proposed. One such proposal is to have more than a binary outcome of assessment of dysglycemia in pregnancy. The investigator group created this criterion known as the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) criterion. This clinical trial compares the IADPSG to the NPRP criteria in pregnant women in Qatar to determine if this newer method mitigates overdiagnosis and more accurately identifies women at risk of complications.