- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT00561899
Comparison of Three Drug Combinations for Intermittent Treatment of Malaria in Children
Comparison of Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of Three Drug Combinations for Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Children Aged 1-5 Years in an Area of Seasonal Malaria Transmission in Upper River Division, The Gambia
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Detailed Description
Objectives
Primary Objective To determine the safety and tolerability of amodiaquine(AQ) (three days) plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine(SP) (one day), piperaquine(PQP) (three days) plus SP (one day), and Artekin TM (PQP plus dihydroartemisinin, DHA) (3 days) when used for seasonal IPT in children.
Secondary Objective To determine the efficacy of AQ (three days) plus SP (one day), PQP (three days) plus SP (one day) and Artekin TM (3 days) when used for seasonal IPT in children.
3.4 Randomisation Open-label, individual randomisation was carried out three weeks before the first dose of IPTc administration in September 2007. Study subjects were individually randomised into either the AQ plus SP, PQP plus SP or ArtekinTM treatment groups in a 1:1:1 fashion. An independent statistician generated the randomizing subject study number (SSN) that assigned each SSN to one of the treatment groups. A photo ID card was given to all participants to facilitate identification at every contact, at home or in the health centres.
3.5 Drug distribution at the health centres Study subjects and their parents were informed about the date of treatment approximately one week before any intervention. Treatment is scheduled to be given during the months of September, October and November. Drugs are to be given at the nearest health centre by a designated member of staff. Tablets are crushed, mixed with honey or suspended in water and given on a spoon. Staff who administer drugs at the health centre play no further part in the trial. All participants are kept under observation for 30 minutes after drugs are taken. In case of vomiting, the drug is re-administrated. At the time of each monthly drug administration, a brief clinical assessment is carried out. Children who are febrile are screened for malaria using a rapid antigen test. Children found to have malaria are treated with Lumefantrine-artemether (CoartemTM, Norvatis Pharma., Basel Switzerland).
3.7 Morbidity surveillance during the rainy season Passive surveillance for malaria will be maintained throughout the transmission season. Parents/guardians are being encouraged to take their children to the health centre identified as being closest to their home at any time that their child becomes unwell. Project staff are based at each of these health facilities to identify children in the trial and to ensure that they are seen, properly investigated and treated promptly. At each clinic visit, axillary temperature is recorded using a digital thermometer and haemoglobin concentration measured using a Hemocue machine. A dipstick for diagnosis of malaria is to be used if fever (axillary temperature of ³ 37.5°C) or a history of fever within the previous 48 hours is present. In such cases, a thick blood smear is also be collected for subsequent confirmation of the diagnosis. Study subjects with documented fever (axillary temperature of ³ 37.5°C) or history of recent fever and malaria parasitaemia are treated with Coartem. The treatment of study subjects seen at the health centres for other conditions is being carried out in accordance with national guidelines.
3.8 End of malaria transmission season cross-sectional survey Children enrolled in the study will be seen at the OPD clinic at the end of malaria transmission season for examination by a study physician and a finger-prick blood sample will be obtained for preparation of a thick blood smear and determination of haemoglobin concentration. A standardized questionnaire will be administered to the parents/guardians of the study subject, to collect information regarding illness that had occurred since the last visit, symptoms experienced, use of healthcare facilities and use of medicines. Information on the use of bed nets will be collected again at this visit.
3.10. Assessment of adverse events To determine the prevalence of minor side effects following drug administration such as headache, fever, weakness, abdominal pain, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, itching or sleep disorder participants in each treatment group are to be visited at home three and seven days after each round of drug administration and a side effects questionnaire completed. Field workers who complete these questionnaires will be unaware of the treatment group to which the child belongs. To help establish whether these adverse events are drug related, the same questionnaire will be administered once after each treatment round, to 286 children who are not part of the trial, recruited from nearby villages and matched for age to children in the trial.
Any serious adverse event that occurs during the study period will be reported to the Local Safety Monitor and Chairman of DSMB.
Primary end-point:
- Incidence of any adverse events during the observation period.
Secondary endpoints:
- Mean Hb (g/dl) at the end of malaria transmission.
- Prevalence of malaria parasitaemia at the end of the malaria transmission season.
- Number of OPD attendances with malaria that meet the case definitions as indicated below during the surveillance period.
Data management and analysis All baseline, surveillance and laboratory data will be collected on forms designed for the trial. Field and laboratory staff will be trained to follow the procedures set out in a series of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Key data will be double entered and inconsistencies checked; range checks will be used for standard variables. Primary analyses will be performed on an intention to treat (ITT) basis. Any child who receives a first dose of drug will be included in the ITT analysis. Children who are randomised but who do not receive any mediation will not be included in this analysis.
Sample size calculations Drugs for IPT need to be acceptable and have low frequency of adverse events. If the frequency of adverse events is 20% in the SP/AQ group, a trial with 286 children per arm has 90% power to detect a halving in the frequency of adverse events, using a significance level of 0.05, or a reduction to 9% or less if a significance of 0.025 is used (to preserve an overall type 1 error rate of 5% for the primary endpoint when there are 2 comparisons, each alternative drug group with SP/AQ). If the frequency of adverse events is 15%, a reduction to 5% or less can be detected with the same power, and if the frequency is 10% a reduction to 2% or less can be detected. Based on experience from several studies the drop-out rate is not expected to exceed 15% and is likely to be less. Allowing for 15% drop out, a sample size of 286*3/(1-0.15)=1009 is needed.
Withdrawal during the study:
Study subjects may be withdrawn from the study for any one of the following reasons.
- Withdrawal of parental / legal guardian's consent.
- Serious adverse event attributable to the study drug.
- Loss to follow-up.
Children who develop adverse events attributable to study drugs should not receive further doses but should be followed-up to monitor safety until the resolution of the adverse reaction.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Phase 2
- Phase 3
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Banjul, Gambia
- Medical Research Council Laboratories,
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age between 1 to 5 years at enrolment.
- Informed consent obtained from parents or legal guardians.
- No current participation in another malaria intervention trial.
- Free of obvious health problems as established by medical history and clinical examination before entering into the study.
- Available for the duration of the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Known allergy to any of the antimalarial drugs used in the trial and if this is unknown, then a history of allergic reaction to any drug.
- Acute or chronic, clinically significant pulmonary, cardiovascular, hepatic or renal functional abnormality, as determined by physical examination or laboratory tests.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: 1
SP+AQ
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once every month during september, October and November
Other Names:
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Experimental: 2
Piperaquine plus SP arm
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SP(500mg sulfadoxine/25mg pyrimethamine)1.25mg
SP per kg stat Amodiaquine (200mg base) 25mg/kg over 3 days Piperaquine (320 mg per tablet) 16.8 g/kg daily for 3 days Du-Cotecxin ( 40mg dihydroartemisinin(DHA)/320mg piperaquine(PQP))PQP/DHA 1.6/12.8mg/kg
once daily for 3 days
Other Names:
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Experimental: 3
Du-Cotecxin
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Du-Cotecxin (40mg dihydroartemisinin (DHA/320mg Piperaquine (PQP) PQP/DHA 1.6/12.8mg/kg
once daily for 3 days
Other Names:
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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The safety and tolerability of AQ plus SP, PQP plus SP, and PQP plus DHA when used for seasonal IPT in children
Time Frame: Onset of IPT to end of malaria season
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Onset of IPT to end of malaria season
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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The efficacy of the three drug regimens when used for seasonal IPT in children
Time Frame: Onset of IPT to end of malaria season
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Onset of IPT to end of malaria season
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Collaborators and Investigators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Kalifa Bojang, MD, Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia
- Principal Investigator: Kalifa Bojang, MD, Medical Research Council
Publications and helpful links
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Study Completion (Actual)
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- SCC1089
- GMP_PII_6
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