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Trial details imported from ClinicalTrials.gov

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Registration number
NCT00449397
Ethics application status
Date submitted
19/03/2007
Date registered
20/03/2007
Date last updated
27/01/2011

Titles & IDs
Public title
Dose Finding of Quetiapine Fumarate 200mg vs 400mg in First Episode Psychosis
Scientific title
A Naturalistic, Prospective, Single Centre, Double Blinded, Fixed Dose, Randomised, Four Week Comparison Study Investigating Efficacy, Tolerability and Safety of 200 mg Per Day Versus 400 mg Per Day Quetiapine Fumarate in 200 Drug naïve First Episode Psychosis Patients Aged 15 to 25 Years.
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
AU-SEA-0003
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Psychosis 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Mental Health 0 0 0 0
Psychosis and personality disorders

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Drugs - Quetiapine Fumarate

Treatment: Drugs: Quetiapine Fumarate
Intervention code [1] 0 0
Treatment: Drugs
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 0 0
Medication dose, Remission and response rate, exBPRSvs4, SANS, CGI - I, CGI - S, CDSS, GAF and QoL scale
Timepoint [1] 0 0
Secondary outcome [1] 0 0
SWN, UKU, illicit substance use, laboratory measures, altered drop-out rates
Timepoint [1] 0 0

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
- Patients experiencing their first psychotic episode

- Male or Female

- Aged 15-25
Minimum age
15 Years
Maximum age
25 Years
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
- Previous treatment with antipsychotic medication (longer than 1 week)

- History of a clinically significant physical illness

- Organic disorder presenting with psychotic symptoms

Study design
Purpose of the study
Treatment
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Blinded (masking used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Single group
Other design features
Phase
Phase 3
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
1/07/2003
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
1/01/2006
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
Recruitment hospital [1] 0 0
Research Sites - Melbourne
Recruitment postcode(s) [1] 0 0
- Melbourne

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Commercial sector/Industry
Name
AstraZeneca
Address
Country

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is determine the minimal effective dose and the impact on:

1. treatment outcomes at 4, 12 and/or 48 weeks the treatment has required to treat patients
experiencing the first psychotic episode

2. the final maintenance doses

3. the use of other medications

4. the amount of changes to other antipsychotic medication

5. the number of hospitalization days
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00449397
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 0 0
Gregor Berger, MD
Address 0 0
ORYGEN Research Centre/ ORYGEN Youth Health
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for public queries
Name 0 0
Address 0 0
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for scientific queries



Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00449397