Combined Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
23 de diciembre de 2016 actualizado por: Paul Crits-Christoph, University of Pennsylvania
The purpose of this study is to conduct a preliminary evaluation of the efficacy of combined medication and psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
The general goals of the current study are to conduct a late stage treatment development study.
The goal of this stage of research is to provide a preliminary answer to the question and to gather data to estimate intervention parameters (e.g., effect size, attrition rates, response rates) that would assist in planning further research.
Descripción general del estudio
Estado
Terminado
Condiciones
Intervención / Tratamiento
Descripción detallada
The specific aims of this study are to collect preliminary data relevant to the following hypotheses:
- Primary Hypothesis: Acute phase improvement for combined cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) plus medication will be superior to medication alone.
- Secondary Hypotheses: Combined CBT plus medication will be superior to medication alone on a number of secondary outcome measures, including the core feature of GAD (worry), depressive symptoms, functional impairment, and quality of life.
- Additional Exploratory Aim: We will explore the comparative relapse rates for the combined CBT plus medication treatment and the medication alone treatment condition at 6-month follow-up.
Tipo de estudio
Intervencionista
Inscripción (Actual)
69
Fase
- Fase 2
Contactos y Ubicaciones
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Ubicaciones de estudio
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Estados Unidos, 19104
- University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, Suite 650
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Criterios de participación
Los investigadores buscan personas que se ajusten a una determinada descripción, denominada criterio de elegibilidad. Algunos ejemplos de estos criterios son el estado de salud general de una persona o tratamientos previos.
Criterio de elegibilidad
Edades elegibles para estudiar
18 años y mayores (Adulto, Adulto Mayor)
Acepta Voluntarios Saludables
No
Géneros elegibles para el estudio
Todos
Descripción
Inclusion Criteria:
- GAD diagnosis by structured interview
- Hamilton Anxiety Scale score of 18 or less
- Clinical Global Impressions Scale score of at least 4
- Hamilton Depression Scale score of 18 or less
- Hamilton Depression Scale suicide item score less than 2
- Use of an effective form of contraception throughout the s
Exclusion Criteria:
- Hypersensitivity to venlafaxine XR
- History of seizures
- Episode of major depressive disorder in the previous 6 months
- History of any psychotic illness, bipolar disorder, or dementia
- Substance abuse and dependence during the past 6 months
- Other anxiety disorders with the exception of social phobia as long as GAD is primary
- Regular use of anxiolytics or antidepressants within 7 days of study onset
- Use of fluoxetine or monoamine oxidase inhibitors within 28 days of study onset (low dose usage of benzodiazepines will not prevent participation)
- Use of other psychotic medication besides benzodiazepines
Plan de estudios
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¿Cómo está diseñado el estudio?
Detalles de diseño
- Propósito principal: Tratamiento
- Asignación: Aleatorizado
- Modelo Intervencionista: Asignación paralela
- Enmascaramiento: Ninguno (etiqueta abierta)
Armas e Intervenciones
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Experimental: Combined Treatment
Patients who receive combined cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) plus medication (venlafaxine XR, flexibly dosed between 75-225 mg/day) treatment for GAD.
CBT was once/week sessions for 12 weeks.
Medication continued for the full 6 months.
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This cognitive behavioral therapy for GAD has a cognitive restructuring component and an applied relaxation component.
Patients will be educated about the nature of anxiety and be trained in the recognition and monitoring of situational, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral cues associated with anxious responding.
They will be guided through copings skill rehearsals in addition to imaginal and in vivo exposure to anxiety cues.
This cognitive behavioral treatment will consist of 1 to 1.5 hour sessions of psychotherapy, which will be held once weekly over a period of 12 weeks.
Venlafaxine XR, 75-225 mg/d, oral administration.
14 days at 75 mg/d, 150 mg/d for the remaining 6 months, 225 mg/3 for patients unimproved at week 6, tapered at 75 mg/week (this intervention is provided by protocol 709012).
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Comparador activo: Venlafaxine XR 75-225 mg alone
These patients receive only medication treatment for GAD.
Patients take venlafaxine (flexibly dosed from 75-225 mg/day) as part of NCT00183274 and are assessed over a 6 month period.
Medication continued for the full 6 months.
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Venlafaxine XR, 75-225 mg/d, oral administration.
14 days at 75 mg/d, 150 mg/d for the remaining 6 months, 225 mg/3 for patients unimproved at week 6, tapered at 75 mg/week (this intervention is provided by protocol 709012).
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¿Qué mide el estudio?
Medidas de resultado primarias
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Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A)
Periodo de tiempo: Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24
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The HAM-A was used to measure the severity of anxiety symptoms.
The scale consists of 14 items; each item is scored on a scale of 0 (not present) to 4 (severe), with a total score range of 0-56, where <17 indicates mild severity, 18-24 mild to moderate and 25-30 moderate to severe anxiety.
This measure was conducted by research psychiatrists trained and highly experienced in the use of these scales.
The evaluators were blind to group assignment.
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Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24
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Medidas de resultado secundarias
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Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HAD)-Anxiety Score
Periodo de tiempo: Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24
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The HAD was used to assess patients' report of anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Each item on the questionnaire is scored from 0-3 and this means that a person can score between 0 and 21 for either anxiety or depression.
A higher score indicates greater anxiety.
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Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24
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Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HAD)-Depression Score
Periodo de tiempo: Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24
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The HAD was used to assess patients' report of anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Each item on the questionnaire is scored from 0-3 and this means that a person can score between 0 and 21 for either anxiety or depression.
A higher score indicates greater depression.
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Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24
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Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D)-17-item Score
Periodo de tiempo: Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 12, and week 24
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The 17-item version of the HAM-D was used to assess severity of depressive symptoms.
Eight items are scored on a 5-point scale, ranging from 0 = not present to 4 = severe.
Nine are scored from 0-2.The total score is the sum of the 17 items, with a range from 0 to 50.
A higher scores indicates greater depression.
The ratings were conducted by research psychiatrists trained and highly experienced in the use of these scales.
The evaluators were blind to group assignment.
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Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 12, and week 24
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Clinical Global Impression (CGI)-Severity Score
Periodo de tiempo: Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24
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The Clinical Global Impression - Severity scale (CGI-S) is a 7-point scale (1=normal; 7 = extremely ill) that requires the clinician to rate the severity of the patient's illness at the time of assessment, relative to the clinician's past experience with patients who have the same diagnosis.
The ratings were conducted by research psychiatrists trained and highly experienced in the use of these scales.
Evaluators were blind to group assignment.
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Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24
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Clinical Global Impression (CGI)-Improvement Score
Periodo de tiempo: Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24
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The Clinical Global Impression - Improvement scale (CGI-I) is a 7 point scale (1= very much improved; 7 = very much worse) that requires the clinician to assess how much the patient's illness has improved or worsened relative to a baseline state at the beginning of the intervention.
The ratings were conducted by research psychiatrists trained and highly experienced in the use of these scales.
Evaluators were blind to group assignment.
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Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24
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Quality of Life Subscale of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)
Periodo de tiempo: Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 12, and week 24
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The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is a psychometric screening tool to identify common psychiatric conditions.
Patients completed the 12 quality of life questions (each on a 0 to 3 scale) on this questionnaire.
Scores on the 12 items were added up to create summary score (range = 0 to 36).
Higher scores indicate worse health.
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Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 12, and week 24
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Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ)
Periodo de tiempo: Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 12, and week 24
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The Penn State Worry Questionaire is a 16-item inventory that aims to measure the trait of worry, using Likert rating from 1 (not at all typical of me) to 5 (very typical of me).
A total score is calculated (range = 16 to 80), with higher scores indicating greater worry.
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Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 12, and week 24
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Physical Component Score of the 12-Item Short Form Survey (SF-12)
Periodo de tiempo: Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 12, and week 24
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The Short Form (12) Health Survey is a 12-item, patient-reported survey of patient health.
Physical and Mental Health Component Scores (PCS & MCS) are computed using the scores of twelve questions and range from 0 to 100, where a zero score indicates the lowest level of health measured by the scales and 100 indicates the highest level of health.
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Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 12, and week 24
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Mental Component Score of the 12-item Short Form Survey (SF-12)
Periodo de tiempo: Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 12, and week 24
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The Short Form (12) Health Survey is a 12-item, patient-reported survey of patient health.
Physical and Mental Health Component Scores (PCS & MCS) are computed using the scores of twelve questions and range from 0 to 100, where a zero score indicates the lowest level of health measured by the scales and 100 indicates the highest level of health.
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Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 12, and week 24
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Clinical Response Rate
Periodo de tiempo: Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24
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Clinical response on the HAM-A was defined as a 50% or greater reduction from baseline to last value with the 24-week open label medication phase.
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Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24
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50 Percent or Greater Reduction in PSWQ Score
Periodo de tiempo: Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 12, and week 24
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Clinically significant change was defined on the PSWQ as an estimated (based on linear mixed effects model) endpoint score of less than 50.9.
This score was calculated using the PSWQ normative data provided by Gillis, Haaga, and Ford (1995) and the baseline PSWQ mean and standard deviation (SD) from the current sample.
The PSWQ mean and SD from the normative and current GAD samples were entered into the Jacobson et al. (1984) formula "c" for clinically significant change.
This method provides a cutoff indicating whether or not the level of functioning by a patient is statistically more likely to be in the functional rather than the dysfunctional population.
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Data collected as part of protocol 709012 at baseline, week 12, and week 24
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Colaboradores e Investigadores
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Patrocinador
Colaboradores
Investigadores
- Investigador principal: Paul Crits-Christoph, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Fechas de registro del estudio
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Fechas importantes del estudio
Inicio del estudio
1 de octubre de 2006
Finalización primaria (Actual)
1 de marzo de 2008
Finalización del estudio (Actual)
1 de marzo de 2008
Fechas de registro del estudio
Enviado por primera vez
7 de febrero de 2008
Primero enviado que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad
7 de febrero de 2008
Publicado por primera vez (Estimar)
21 de febrero de 2008
Actualizaciones de registros de estudio
Última actualización publicada (Actual)
16 de febrero de 2017
Última actualización enviada que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad
23 de diciembre de 2016
Última verificación
1 de diciembre de 2016
Más información
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Palabras clave
Términos MeSH relevantes adicionales
- Desordenes mentales
- Procesos Patológicos
- Enfermedad
- Desórdenes de ansiedad
- Efectos fisiológicos de las drogas
- Agentes neurotransmisores
- Mecanismos moleculares de acción farmacológica
- Drogas psicotropicas
- Inhibidores de la captación de neurotransmisores
- Moduladores de transporte de membrana
- Agentes antidepresivos
- Agentes antidepresivos, segunda generación
- Inhibidores de la recaptación de serotonina y noradrenalina
- Clorhidrato de venlafaxina
Otros números de identificación del estudio
- 802307
- 5R34MH072678-02 (Subvención/contrato del NIH de EE. UU.)
Plan de datos de participantes individuales (IPD)
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NO
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