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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    GSK Investigational Site

    Aichi, Japan, 470-1141

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    GSK Investigational Site

    Aichi, Japan, 475-0074

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    GSK Investigational Site

    Chiba, Japan, 270-1613