Melatonin Intervention For Neurocognitive Deficits in the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort
Primary objective:
- To examine the efficacy of melatonin treatment on neurocognitive functioning in adult survivors of childhood cancer.
Secondary objectives:
- To evaluate the efficacy of melatonin treatment on delayed sleep onset latency in long-term childhood cancer survivors.
- To investigate whether improvement in sleep onset latency due to melatonin treatment is associated with neurocognitive improvement in long-term childhood cancer survivors.
This study is a randomized double-blind placebo controlled trial of time release melatonin for adult survivors of childhood cancer who demonstrate impaired neurocognitive functioning and/or difficulty falling asleep.
Studienübersicht
Status
Status
Bedingungen
Bedingungen
Intervention / Behandlung
Intervention / Behandlung
Detaillierte Beschreibung
All participants undergo a general neurocognitive evaluation at baseline and 6-month follow-up, focused on assessment of intelligence, academic skills, attention, processing speed, memory and executive functions.
Sleep parameters using self-report and actigraphy will be assessed at three time points during the study: Baseline, 3-months, and 6-months.
Participants will be divided into 3 mutually exclusive groups:
- Cohort 1: Participant has neurocognitive impairment defined as performance on at least one measure of attention, memory, and/or executive functioning at or below the 10th percentile, AND is absent of delayed sleep onset latency defined as an inability to fall asleep within 30 minutes less than once a week during the past month.
- Cohort 2: Participant has neurocognitive impairment defined as performance on at least one measure of attention, memory, and/or executive functioning at or below the 10th percentile, AND has delayed sleep onset latency defined as self-report of an inability to fall asleep within 30 minutes at least once a week during the past month.
- Cohort 3: Participant is absent of neurocognitive impairment defined as performance >10th percentile on all six measures of attention, memory, and executive functioning, AND has delayed sleep onset latency defined as self-report of an inability to fall asleep within 30 minutes > once a week during the past month.
Within each group, participants will be randomly assigned to take either 3 mgs of time release melatonin or placebo 1-2 hours before bedtime each night for 6 months.
Psychosocial measures of health-related quality of life and psychological distress will be completed at baseline and following 6 months of melatonin/placebo treatment.
Biological samples for serum melatonin levels will be collected at baseline and at the 6 month follow-up evaluation.
Studientyp
Studientyp
Einschreibung (Tatsächlich)
Einschreibung
Phase
Phase
- Phase 3
Kontakte und Standorte
Studienorte
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Tennessee
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Memphis, Tennessee, Vereinigte Staaten, 38105
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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Teilnahmekriterien
Zulassungskriterien
Zulassungskriterien
Studienberechtigtes Alter
Akzeptiert gesunde Freiwillige
Studienberechtigte Geschlechter
Beschreibung
Inclusion Criteria:
- A St. Jude Life participant who was previously treated at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- 10 or more years from diagnosis
- 18 years of age or older
- Able to speak and understand the English language
- Participant has a full scale intelligence quotient (FSIQ) score >79.
Cohort 1 participant:
- Has neurocognitive impairment defined as performance on at least one measure of attention, memory, and/or executive functioning ≤10th percentile.
- Is absent of delayed sleep onset latency defined as an inability to fall asleep within 30 minutes < once a week during the past month.
Cohort 2 participant:
- Has neurocognitive impairment defined as performance on at least one measure of attention, memory, and/or executive functioning ≤10th percentile.
- Has delayed sleep onset latency defined as self-report of an inability to fall asleep within 30 minutes ≥ once a week during the past month.
Cohort 3 participant:
- Is absent of neurocognitive impairment defined as performance >10th percentile on all six measures of attention, memory, and executive functioning.
- Has delayed sleep onset latency defined as self-report of an inability to fall asleep within 30 minutes ≥ once a week during the past month.
- Female participant of childbearing age must not be pregnant or lactating
- Female research participant of childbearing age and male research participant of child fathering potential agrees to use safe contraceptive methods
Exclusion Criteria:
- Known allergy to melatonin or any ingredients of the study product or placebo
- Participant currently is taking melatonin
- Known sleep apnea or medically treated sleep disorder (e.g. restless leg syndrome)
- Known diabetes mellitus - insulin treated
- Participant has uncontrolled seizure disorder in past 12 months
- Reported current illicit drug or alcohol abuse or dependence
- Reported current major psychiatric illness (i.e. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder)
- Current treatment with: (1) benzodiazepines or other central nervous system depressants, (2) fluvoxamine, (3) anticoagulants (e.g. coumadin), (4) immunosuppressant or corticosteroids, OR (5) nifedipine (Procardia XL(R))
- Employed in a position that requires night work (i.e. 10pm to 6am)
- Females who are pregnant or lactating/nursing
- History of neurologic event (i.e. traumatic brain injury) unrelated to cancer or its treatment
- Sensory impairment (vision, hearing) that prohibits completion of neurocognitive examination
Studienplan
Wie ist die Studie aufgebaut?
Designdetails
- Hauptzweck: Behandlung
- Zuteilung: Zufällig
- Interventionsmodell: Parallele Zuordnung
- Maskierung: Doppelt
Anzahl der Arme
Waffen und Interventionen
Teilnehmergruppe / ArmTeilnehmergruppe / Arm |
Intervention / BehandlungIntervention / Behandlung |
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Aktiver Komparator: Melatonin
Participants receive 3 mgs of time-release melatonin 1-2 hours prior to bedtime.
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Melatonin 3mg time release will be given.
Participants will be instructed to take one 3mg time released tablet by mouth approximately 1-2 hours before initiating sleep onset, preferably at the same time each night.
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Placebo-Komparator: Placebo
Participants receive a placebo identical to the time-release melatonin and are instructed to take it 1-2 hours prior to bedtime.
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Placebo tablets to match the melatonin will be comprised of inert substances.
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Was misst die Studie?
Primäre Ergebnismessungen
Primäre Ergebnismessungen
Ergebnis Maßnahme |
Maßnahmenbeschreibung |
Zeitfenster |
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Neurocognitive Function as Measured by Performance on Standardized Tests of Attention, Memory, and Executive Function.
Zeitfenster: Baseline and 6 months after start of therapy
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Efficacy of melatonin treatment on neurocognitive functioning in adult survivors of childhood cancer (Cohorts 1 and 2 only).
The measures were analyzed to compare change in neurocognitive performance from baseline to 6 months between active treatment and placebo groups.
The unit of measure is a standardized z-score with a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1.
A higher z-score represents a better outcome.
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Baseline and 6 months after start of therapy
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Sekundäre Ergebnismessungen
Sekundäre Ergebnismessungen
Ergebnis Maßnahme |
Maßnahmenbeschreibung |
Zeitfenster |
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Sleep Onset Latency as Measured by Actigraphy and Self-report.
Zeitfenster: Baseline and six months after start of therapy
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Efficacy of melatonin on delayed sleep onset latency in long-term childhood cancer survivors (Cohorts 2 and 3 only).
The measures were analyzed to compare change in sleep onset latency from baseline to 6 months between active treatment and placebo groups.
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Baseline and six months after start of therapy
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Neurocognitive Function as Measured by Performance on Standardized Tests of Attention, Memory, and Executive Function, and Sleep Onset Latency as Measured by Actigraphy and Self-report.
Zeitfenster: Baseline and six months after start of therapy
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Investigate whether improvement in sleep onset latency due to melatonin treatment is associated with neurocognitive improvement in long-term childhood cancer survivors (Cohort 2).
The change in neurocognitive performance from baseline to 6 months will be examined in relation to change in sleep onset latency.
The unit of measure is a standardized z-score with a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1.
The unit of measurement is a correlation coefficient (Pearson's R2).
The range is from -1.0 to 1.0.
A zero indicates no correlation while values closer to -1.0 or 1.0 reflect a stronger association.
A negative correlation suggests that as sleep latency decreased, neurocognitive functioning improved.
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Baseline and six months after start of therapy
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Mitarbeiter und Ermittler
Sponsor
Sponsor
Mitarbeiter
Mitarbeiter
Ermittler
Ermittler
- Hauptermittler: Tara Brinkman, PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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Studienbeginn (Tatsächlich)
Studienbeginn
Primärer Abschluss (Tatsächlich)
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Zusätzliche relevante MeSH-Bedingungen
Andere Studien-ID-Nummern
Andere Studien-ID-Nummern
- MIND
- P30CA021765 (US NIH Stipendium/Vertrag)
- NCI-2012-02053 (Registrierungskennung: NCI Clinical Trial Registration Program)
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