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- Clinical Trial NCT00754052
Evaluating The Efficacy And Safety Of Donepezil Hydrochloride (Aricept) In The Treatment Of The Cognitive Dysfunction Exhibited By Children With Down Syndrome, Aged 11 To 17
March 23, 2018 updated by: Eisai Inc.
A 10-Week, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study To Evaluate The Efficacy And Safety Of Donepezil Hydrochloride (Aricept) In The Treatment Of The Cognitive Dysfunction Exhibited By Children With Down Syndrome, Aged 11 To 17
The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy and safety of donepezil hydrochloride (Aricept) in the treatment of the cognitive dysfunction shown by children with Down syndrome, aged 11 to 17.
Study Overview
Status
Terminated
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
The study will be conducted in approximately 75 sites in the US, India, Singapore, South Korea, Mexico and Chile and will include 210 participants to be enrolled.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Actual)
8
Phase
- Phase 3
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
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Texas
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San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78258
- Road Runner Research
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Virginia
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Herndon, Virginia, United States, 20170
- Neuroscience, Inc
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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
11 years to 17 years (Child)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age range: Participants 11 to 17 years of age at the screening visit; weight >35 kilograms (kg).
- Sex distribution: both males and females.
- Vineland-II Adaptive Behavior Scales (VABS-II)/Parent/Caregiver Rating Form (PCRF) receptive sub-domain raw score of >= 25 and expressive sub-domain raw score of >= 61.
- Clinical diagnosis of Down syndrome (DS) - participants may have free trisomy 21, Robertsonian translocations, or mosaic DS.
- Naive to approved or unapproved cholinesterase inhibitors (Aricept, Exelon, Cognex, Reminyl/Razadyne, metrifonate, physostigmine) is preferred. However, prior use of these medications is allowed, provided that the medication was discontinued at least 3 months prior to screening and that it was not discontinued for lack of tolerability or efficacy or for the sole purpose of enrolling the participant in the study. The exception to this prior use is that participants who participated in the Phase II study E2020-A001-219 (A2501059) are not eligible.
- Participants residing in the community or in facilities that have consistent and reliable caregivers who can provide efficacy information about the participants.
- The participants must be expected to complete all procedures scheduled during the Screening and Baseline visits including all efficacy and safety parameters. Participants who are verbal and able to be understood most of the time are preferred, but those who use other forms of communication, signs, symbol boards or devices to supplement his/her communication ability may be enrolled provided they meet the VABS-II/PCRF receptive and expressive score criteria mentioned above.
- Participants must have a parent, or other reliable caregiver who agrees to accompany the participant to all clinic visits, provide information about the participant as required by the protocol, and ensure compliance with the medication schedule.
- The parent or caregiver must be a constant and reliable informant with sufficient contact with the participant to have detailed knowledge of the participant's adaptive functioning in order to be able to complete the VABS-II/PCRF accurately. The same individual should complete the form at every visit, if possible.
- Participants should be in good general health with no medical conditions that are considered both clinically significant and unstable.
- Clinical laboratory values within normal limits or abnormalities considered not clinically significant by the investigator and sponsor.
- Participants with stable Type I (insulin-dependent) or Type II diabetes are eligible provided they are monitored regularly prior to and during the study to ensure adequate glucose control. (Adequacy of control is based on the investigator's judgment, but should be guided primarily by a glycosylated hemoglobin [hemoglobin A1c] <8.0 at screening; other information, including records of home monitoring and the screening fasting glucose may support this judgment).
- Participants with thyroid disease also may be included in the study provided they are euthyroid and stable on treatment for at least 1 month prior to screening.
- Participants with a history of seizure disorder are allowed provided that they are on stable treatment for at least 3 months and have not had a seizure within the past 6 months.
- Participants should be independent in ambulation or ambulatory aided (i.e., walker or cane, to wheelchair); vision and hearing (eyeglasses and/or hearing aid permissible) sufficient for achieving VABS-II/PCRF minimum receptive raw scores of >= 25 and expressive scores of >= 61 and for cooperating with secondary efficacy evaluations and study examinations.
- Females who have begun menstruation and are thus of child-bearing potential may be enrolled but must be documented not to be pregnant by serum pregnancy testing at screening. They also must be practicing an effective means of birth control (abstinence, oral contraceptives, hormonal implants in place at least 1 month prior to enrollment, or a double-barrier method), which must be documented, and the participant and caregiver must be counseled in writing of the importance of not becoming pregnant during the trial. A urine pregnancy test will be done at the Week 4 clinic visit and must be negative prior to dispensing any medication; a serum pregnancy test will be repeated at the Week 10 (or Early Termination) clinic visit.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age range: Participants <11 or >17 years at the screening visit.
- Participants with active or clinically significant conditions that will, in the investigator's judgment, affect absorption, distribution or metabolism of the study medication (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease, gastric or duodenal ulcers or severe lactose intolerance); controlled celiac disease is allowed.
- Participants with a known hypersensitivity to piperidine derivatives or cholinesterase inhibitors.
- Participants currently receiving cholinesterase inhibitors or who have received them in the 3 months prior to screening or with prior use >3 months prior to screening who stopped for lack of efficacy or tolerability or simply to enroll the participant in this study. Also excluded are participants who participated in the Phase II study E2020-A001-219 (A2501059). In addition, participants may not have taken any other investigational medications (including memantine) within 3 months prior to screening.
- Participants without a reliable parent or caregiver (caregiver responsibilities are described in the Inclusion Criteria above), or with parents or caregivers who are unwilling or unable to complete any of the outcome measures and fulfill the requirements of this study.
- Participants with clinically significant obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma, untreated or not controlled by treatment within 3 months prior to screening.
- Participants with recent (<= 1 year) or ongoing hematologic/oncologic disorders (mild anemia allowed).
- Evidence of active, clinically significant, and unstable gastrointestinal, renal, hepatic, endocrine or cardiovascular system disease.
- Participants with a current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) or any current primary psychiatric diagnosis other than DS (as per DSM-IV). Diagnoses that are secondary, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, are allowed.
- Any condition which would make the patient or the caregiver, in the opinion of the investigator, unsuitable for the study. Unsuitability includes female participants who have begun menstruation and are thus of child-bearing potential, and who are not practicing an effective means of birth control. Female participants who have begun menstruation and are sexually abstinent or who are practicing another effective means of birth control are not excluded but must be counseled in writing along with their caregiver about the importance of not becoming pregnant during the study and must have a negative pregnancy test at screening and pregnancy testing at Weeks 4 and 10.
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: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Double
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Active Comparator: 2
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All participants will start with a dose of 2.5 mg/day (2.5 ml) donepezil ; dose escalation will occur every 2 weeks to a maximum of 5 mg/day (5 ml) donepezil.
All doses will be administered orally.
Other Names:
All participants will start with a dose of 2.5 mg/day (2.5 ml) donepezil ; dose escalations will occur every 2 weeks to a maximum of 10 mg/day (10 ml) donepezil.
All doses will be administered orally.
Other Names:
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Active Comparator: 1
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All participants will start with a dose of 2.5 mg/day (2.5 ml) donepezil ; dose escalation will occur every 2 weeks to a maximum of 5 mg/day (5 ml) donepezil.
All doses will be administered orally.
Other Names:
All participants will start with a dose of 2.5 mg/day (2.5 ml) donepezil ; dose escalations will occur every 2 weeks to a maximum of 10 mg/day (10 ml) donepezil.
All doses will be administered orally.
Other Names:
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Placebo Comparator: 3
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All participants will start with a dose of 2.5 mg/day (2.5 ml) placebo; dose escalations will occur every 2 weeks to a maximum of 10 mg/day (10 ml) placebo.
All doses will be administered orally.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Mean Change From Baseline in Vineland-II Adaptive Behavior Scale (VABS-II) Parent/Caregiver Rating Form (PCRF) Score Using Last Observation Carried Forward (LOCF)
Time Frame: Baseline (Day 0) to Visit 3 (Week 10) or at early termination
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Mean change from Baseline from Visit 1 (baseline) to Visit 3 (Week 10 or early termination) in VABS-11/PCRF, a sum of the 9 sub-domain v-scores (3 scores for each of the communication, daily living skills, and socialization domains) using last observation carried forward was planned.
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Baseline (Day 0) to Visit 3 (Week 10) or at early termination
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Mean Change From Baseline in Additional Analyses of the VABS-11/PCRF
Time Frame: Baseline (Day 0) to Visit 3 (Week 10) or early termination
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Additional analyses of the VABS-II/PCRF were planned.
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Baseline (Day 0) to Visit 3 (Week 10) or early termination
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Mean Change From Baseline in Test of Verbal Expression and Reasoning (TOVER)
Time Frame: Baseline (Day 0) to Visit 3 (Week 10) or early termination
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TOVER, a subject performance-based measure of expressive language function was planned.
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Baseline (Day 0) to Visit 3 (Week 10) or early termination
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Mean Change From Baseline if the Forward Memory and Attention Sustained Sub-tests of the Leiter International Performance Scale - Revised (Leiter-R)
Time Frame: Baseline (Day 0) to Visit 3 (Week 10) or early termination
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Forward Memory and Attention Sustained sub-tests of the Leiter International Performance Scale - Revised (Leiter-R), a cognitive assessment instrument for children and adolescents that is not language dependent was planned.
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Baseline (Day 0) to Visit 3 (Week 10) or early termination
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
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
September 1, 2008
Primary Completion (Actual)
November 1, 2008
Study Completion (Actual)
December 1, 2008
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
September 15, 2008
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
September 16, 2008
First Posted (Estimate)
September 17, 2008
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
April 23, 2018
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
March 23, 2018
Last Verified
March 1, 2018
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Mental Disorders
- Pathologic Processes
- Nervous System Diseases
- Neurologic Manifestations
- Neurobehavioral Manifestations
- Neurocognitive Disorders
- Disease
- Congenital Abnormalities
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn
- Intellectual Disability
- Cognition Disorders
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Chromosome Disorders
- Syndrome
- Cognitive Dysfunction
- Down Syndrome
- Physiological Effects of Drugs
- Neurotransmitter Agents
- Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
- Cholinergic Agents
- Enzyme Inhibitors
- Nootropic Agents
- Cholinesterase Inhibitors
- Donepezil
Other Study ID Numbers
- E2020-A001-335
- A2501061
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