Amisulpride in Schizophrenic Patients

April 8, 2008 updated by: Sanofi

Study of the Efficacy and Safety After Long-Term Treatment With Amisulpride in Schizophrenic Patients

Primary purpose:

  • To find out how effective is long term treatment with amisulpride on the positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenic patients
  • To find out how safe is long term treatment with amisulpride in schizophrenic patients

Secondary purpose:

  • To find out how effective is long term treatment with amisulpride on the quality of life in schizophrenic patients
  • To find out how effective is long term treatment with amisulpride on the cognitive function in schizophrenic patients

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment

138

Phase

  • Phase 4

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients diagnosed as schizophrenia or schizophrenic disorder according to DSM-IV
  • Patients who need new anti-psychotic drugs or need to change the medication due to aggravations of symptoms or recurrence

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with positive symptoms in whom the disorder does not correspond to schizophrenic criteria. (e.g, schizoaffective disorder)
  • Patients hypersensitive to the active ingredient or to other ingredients of the study drug
  • Prolactin-dependant tumors, pituitary gland prolactinomas and breast cancer
  • Pheochromocytoma or Parkinson's disease
  • Pregnancy or breast feeding
  • Current or recently withdrawn from drug abuse or alcoholism
  • Chronic renal failure and other internal or surgical disease which physician decides will be worsened by trial medication or that will affect the metabolism or effects of the trial medication
  • Patients with previous histories and clinical improvement was not seen in spite of treatment with 2 anti-psychotics for over 8 weeks
  • Slow heart rate of <55bpm, low blood potassium level, congenital prolongation of the QT interval
  • Current treatment with a drug likely to cause markedly slow heart rate(<55bpm), low blood potassium level, slowing of intercardiac condition or prolongation of the QT interval

The above information is not intended to contain all considerations relevant to a patient's potential participation in a clinical trial.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
  • Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
  • Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
  • Masking: NONE

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
PANSS scores
Time Frame: at every visit
at every visit

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Sanofi

Investigators

  • Study Director: Won Sik Lee, MD, PhD, Sanofi

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

February 1, 2004

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

May 30, 2006

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 30, 2006

First Posted (ESTIMATE)

May 31, 2006

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE)

April 10, 2008

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 8, 2008

Last Verified

April 1, 2008

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • L_8968

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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