Status:
COMPLETED
Study In Patients With Depression Not Responding to Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors
Lead Sponsor:
GlaxoSmithKline
Conditions:
Depressive Disorder
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-65 years
Phase:
PHASE3
Brief Summary
This study is designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety in depressive patients who did not respond sufficiently to selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRI).
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion criteria:
- \[At the start of the pretreatment phase\]
- Target disease: Patients diagnosed as having the following primary disease on the basis of DSM-IV-TR criteria.
- Major Depressive Disorder, Single Episode (296.2x) (excluding with psychotic features)
- Major Depressive Disorder, Recurrent (296.3x) (excluding with psychotic features)
- HAM-D (17 items) total score is \>=16.
- Patients who have been treated with marketed paroxetine (Paxil®) at 20mg/day to 40mg/day for 4 weeks and more at the start of the pretreatment phase.
- Age: \>=18 years old (at the time of informed consent) , \<65 years old (at the start of treatment phase )
- Gender: Male or female.
- Inpatients or outpatients: Either
- Informed consent: The subject himself/herself must give written informed consent. However, if the subject is under 20 at the time of giving consent, both the subject himself/herself and his/her legally acceptable representative must give written informed consent.
- \[At the end of the pretreatment phase\]
- HAM-D (17 items) total score is ≥14.
- Percentage of change from the start of the pretreatment phase in the HAM-D (17 items) total score is \<50%
- \[At the start of the treatment phase\]
- HAM-D (17 items) total score is ≥14.
- Percentage of change from the start of the pretreatment phase in the HAM-D (17 items) total score is \<50%
- Exclusion Criteria:
- \[At the start of the pre-treatment phase\]
- Patients with a complication of glaucoma
- Patients concomitantly using a drug increasing the risk of bleeding and patients with bleeding tendency or predisposition to bleeding
- Patients with predisposition to seizure (who currently have or have a past history of seizure, febrile convulsive seizure in infancy, cerebral tumour, cerebrovascular disorder or head injury, who have a family history of idiopathic seizure, patients with diabetes who have been treated with oral hypoglycaemics or insulin, or who use drugs lowering the threshold of seizure).
- Patients who currently have or have a past history of the following disorders:
- Anorexia nervosa (DSM-IV-TR 307.1)
- Bulimia nervosa (DSM-IV-TR 307.51)
- Patients with a history of manic episode
- Patients with a past or current DSM- IV-TR diagnosis of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder
- Patients with a current DSM-IV-TR Axis II diagnosis (e.g., antisocial or borderline personality disorder)
- Patients starting psychotherapy (except for supportive psychotherapy not aimed at therapeutic efficacy and unlikely to affect efficacy evaluation) and formal cognitive behaviour therapy within 5 weeks prior to the start of the pre-treatment phase
- Patients with a diagnosis of substance abuse (alcohol or drug) by the DSM-IV-TR criteria or with a diagnosis of substance dependence within 1 year prior to the start of the pre-treatment phase
- Patients who have received electroconvulsive therapy within 17 weeks prior to the start of the pre-treatment phase
- Patients who have taken MAO inhibitors (selegiline hydrochloride) within 2 weeks prior to the start of the pre-treatment phase
- Patients who have taken another investigational drug within 12 weeks prior to the start of the pre-treatment phase
- Female patients who are pregnant, possibly pregnant or are nursing, and those who want to become pregnant before 30 days after the last dose of the investigational product
- Patients who have attempted suicide within 17 weeks prior to the start of the pre-treatment phase, or patients for whom the score of suicide-related item No. 3 of HAM-D is \>=3, or patients in whom the risk of suicide is judged to be high by the investigator (sub-investigator)
- Patients in whom the risk of homicide is judged to be high by the investigator (sub-investigator)
- Patients with a history of hypersensitivity to 323U66 and/or paroxetine
- Patients with serious cerebral disease
- Patients who have ECG or clinical evidence of any cardiac condition that the investigator (sub-investigator) feels may predispose the subject to ischemia or arrhythmia
- Patients with serious physical symptoms (i.e. cardiac/hepatic/renal disorder, hematopoietic disorder) The index of seriousness is Grade 3 of "Criteria for classification of seriousness of adverse drug reactions to pharmaceutical products, etc." (PAB/PSD No.80 in 1992).
- Patients with a history or complication of cancer or malignant tumour.
- Patients whose major depressive disorder is due to direct physiological effects of a general medical condition (for example, hypothyroidism, Parkinson's disease, chronic pain)
- Patients with systolic blood pressure of \>=160 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure of \>=100 mmHg
- Patients who are inappropriate for participating in the study in the judgement of the investigator (sub-investigator)
- \[At the start of the treatment phase\]
- Patients whose compliance of paroxetine during the pretreatment phase is less than 70%.
- Patients who have ECG or clinical evidence of any cardiac condition that the investigator (sub-investigator) feels may predispose the subject to ischemia or arrhythmia
- Patients with systolic blood pressure of \>=160 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure of \>=100 mmHg
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 19 2006
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 28 2008
Estimated Enrollment :
325 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00296517
Start Date
January 19 2006
End Date
March 28 2008
Last Update
December 4 2019
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GSK Investigational Site
Aichi, Japan, 462-0831
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Aichi, Japan, 470-1141
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Aichi, Japan, 475-0074
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Chiba, Japan, 270-1613