How Desloratadine (Clarinex, Aerius) Affects Quality of Life in Patients With Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria (Have Had Hives for 6 Weeks or Longer)(Study P02988)

February 7, 2022 updated by: Organon and Co

An Open-Label Study of the Effects of Desloratadine Treatment on the Quality of Life of Patients With Chronic Urticaria

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of desloratadine treatment on quality of life, daytime functioning, quality of sleep, symptoms, and disease severity in patients who had hives for 6 weeks or longer. Patients took desloratadine for 1 month. Once a week, patients filled out a questionnaire to tell how their hives affected their lives. This questionnaire is called the Dermatology Life Quality Index or DLQI. They also filled out a diary every day to tell how much itching they had, how many hives they had, and how their hives had affected their sleep or daily activities. The patients and doctors rated the patients' overall condition and how much relief patients got from treatment.

Study Overview

Status

Status

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Completed

Conditions

Conditions

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Intervention / Treatment

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Study Type

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Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

Enrollment

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282

Phase

Phase

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  • Phase 3

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Subjects must demonstrate their willingness to participate into the study and comply with its procedures by signing a written informed consent.
  • Subjects must be >=18 years of age, of either sex and any race.
  • Women of childbearing potential (includes women who are less than 1 year postmenopausal) must be using an acceptable method of birth control since at least one month prior to visit 1 (e.g., hormonal contraceptive, medically prescribed IUD, condom in combination with spermicide) or be surgically sterilized (e.g., hysterectomy or tubal ligation). Women of childbearing potential should be counseled in the appropriate use of birth control while in this study.
  • Subjects must be in general good health as confirmed by medical history and, physical examination; i.e., they must be free of any clinically significant disease (other than chronic urticaria [CU]) that would interfere with study evaluations.
  • Subjects must understand and be able to adhere to the dosing and visit schedules, and agree to complete the questionnaires and to record accurately and consistently in a daily diary symptom severity scores, medication times, concomitant medications, and adverse events.
  • Subjects must have a history of CU defined as at least 6 weeks of pruritus and hives with hives lasting less than 24 hours and occurring at least 2 days per week.
  • Subjects must be experiencing a current CU flare with hives present at least 2 days in the week prior to the consent visit/visit 1.
  • Subjects must have a pruritus score >=2 and a hive score >=1 at consent visit/Visit 1 or during the 12 hours before the consent visit/Visit 1
  • Subjects must score the Overall Condition of CU >=2 at both consent visit/Visit 1 and Visit 2 (Baseline).
  • Subjects must have a total pruritus score of >=11 for the sum of morning (AM) and evening (PM) (reflective) diary scores for the 3 days prior to Visit 2 (Baseline) plus the morning score on the day of Visit 2
  • Women of childbearing potential must have a negative urine pregnancy test at Visit 2 (Baseline).

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Women who are pregnant or nursing.
  • Subjects who have not observed the designated washout periods for any of the prohibited medications
  • Subjects with asthma
  • Subjects with drug or food allergies that manifest as skin reactions during 1 year prior to consent visit / visit 1
  • Subjects with atopic dermatitis
  • Subjects with urticaria that is primarily due to physical urticaria or other known etiology (on the basis of clinical history and physical examination).
  • Subjects with CU unresponsive to antihistamines.
  • Subjects under regular treatment with NSAIDs.
  • Subjects who have been hospitalized because of worsening in their CU within 3 months prior to Visit 1 (Screening).
  • Subjects with a history of hypersensitivity to Desloratadine or any of its excipients.
  • Subjects previously enrolled into this study (i.e. who have been assigned to treatment).
  • Subjects who are staff personnel directly involved with the administration of this study.
  • Subjects who have any clinically significant metabolic, cardiovascular, immunologic, neurologic, hematologic, neoplastic, gastrointestinal, cerebrovascular, or respiratory disease, or any other disorder which, in the judgment of the Investigator, may interfere with the study evaluations or affect subject safety.
  • Subjects with a history of psychosis, antagonistic personality, poor motivation, hypochondriasis, or any other emotional or intellectual problems that are likely to limit the validity of consent to participate in the study.
  • Subjects with a history of noncompliance with medications or treatment protocols.
  • Subject treated with any investigational drug in the last 30 days prior to baseline

Study Plan

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How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Participant Group / Arm

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Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

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Experimental: Arm 1
Drug: desloratadine
desloratadine 5 mg tablets; one tablet orally once a day for 28 days
Other Names:
  • Clarinex; Aerius; SCH 34117; descarboethoxyloratadine

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, the planned outcome measure that is the most important for evaluating the effect of an intervention/treatment. Most clinical studies have one primary outcome measure, but some have more than one.
Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Change from baseline to day 28 in Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) score
Time Frame: Baseline and treatment day 28
Baseline and treatment day 28

Secondary Outcome Measures

Secondary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, a planned outcome measure that is not as important as the primary outcome measure for evaluating the effect of an intervention but is still of interest. Most clinical studies have more than one secondary outcome measure.
Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Change from Baseline in the DLQI score on treatment days 7, 14, 21
Time Frame: Baseline and treatment days 7, 14, 21
Baseline and treatment days 7, 14, 21
Change from Baseline in pruritus, the number of hives, sleep quality, and daily activity impairment on treatment days 7, 14, 21, and 28
Time Frame: Baseline and treatment days 7, 14, 21, and 28
Baseline and treatment days 7, 14, 21, and 28
Change from Baseline in the Overall Condition of chronic urticaria on treatment days 14 and 28
Time Frame: Baseline and treatment days 14 and 28
Baseline and treatment days 14 and 28
Percent of subjects who rate their response to therapy as either Complete, Marked, or Moderate Relief on treatment days 14 and 28
Time Frame: Treatment days 14 and 28
Treatment days 14 and 28
Evaluation of tolerability and safety by clinical laboratory tests
Time Frame: Baseline and treatment day 28
Baseline and treatment day 28
Evaluation of tolerability and safety by adverse events
Time Frame: Screening, Baseline, and treatment days 14 and 28
Screening, Baseline, and treatment days 14 and 28

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Sponsor

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Organon and Co

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

  • Seidenari S, Cirillo A, Amoroso S, Flori ML, Amerio P, Ricciuti E, Vena GA, Berardesca E, Le Grazie C and the Italian Study Group on Desloratadine (DL) in Chronic Urticaria. Desloratadine 5 milligrams once daily improves quality of life in chronic idiopathic urticaria. G Ital Dermatol Venereol. 2006;141(3):207-214

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

Study Start

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November 1, 2002

Primary Completion (Actual)

Primary Completion

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January 1, 2004

Study Completion (Actual)

Study Completion

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January 1, 2004

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

First Submitted

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November 20, 2008

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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November 20, 2008

First Posted (Estimate)

First Posted

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November 21, 2008

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

Last Update Posted

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February 17, 2022

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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February 7, 2022

Last Verified

Last Verified

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February 1, 2022

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Other Study ID Numbers

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  • P02988

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