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What are the indications for Prescribing ANtiDepressAnts that lead to a clinical benefit? PANDA

Phase 1
Conditions
depression
MedDRA version: 18.0Level: LLTClassification code 10027942Term: Mood depressionSystem Organ Class: 100000004873
Therapeutic area: Psychiatry and Psychology [F] - Mental Disorders [F03]
Registration Number
EUCTR2013-003440-22-GB
Lead Sponsor
niversity College London
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot Recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
547
Inclusion Criteria

1.Age: 18-74 (inclusive)
2.Gender: both female and male
3.Depression presenting in primary care
4.Clinical equipoise about the benefits of SSRI medication
5. People who are having other interventions such as low intensity IAPT can also take part

Are the trial subjects under 18? no
Number of subjects for this age range: 0
F.1.2 Adults (18-64 years) yes
F.1.2.1 Number of subjects for this age range 500
F.1.3 Elderly (>=65 years) yes
F.1.3.1 Number of subjects for this age range 47

Exclusion Criteria

1.Antidepressant medication in the preceding 8 weeks.
2.Unable to read, understand and/or complete questionnaires
3.Other psychiatric disorders: psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, mania, hypomania, dementia, eating disorder.
4.Major alcohol or substance misuse problems
5.Currently on contraindicated medication: monoamine oxidase Inhibitors within the past 14 days or pimozide.
6.Patients with poorly controlled epilepsy
7.Known allergies to the IMP, placebo or excipients
8.Concurrent enrolment in another IMP trial
9.Women who are currently pregnant or planning pregnancy or lactating
10.Severe hepatic impairment
11Bleeding disorders such as such as haemophilia, Christmas disease and von Willebrands disease, as well as those with past medical history of bleeding gastric or duodenal ulcers or other significant bleeding disorders

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional clinical trial of medicinal product
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Main Objective: To investigate the severity and duration of the depressive symptoms that are associated with a clinically important response (compared to placebo) to sertraline in people with depression;Secondary Objective: We will also investigate quality of life, the economic costs and whether emotional processing tasks are associated with response to treatment with sertraline. ;Primary end point(s): PHQ 9 questionnaire as a continuous score ;Timepoint(s) of evaluation of this end point: at 6 weeks follow-up.
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Secondary end point(s): Depressive symptoms with the PHQ9 at 2 & 12 weeks as a continuous outcome and 2, 6 & 12 weeks as a binary outcome. BDI-II as an alternative measure of depressive symptoms as continuous and binary at all follow up points. Anxiety symptoms measured using the GAD7 as a continuous and binary measure at all follow-up points. Quality of life assessed using the EQ5D and SF12. Economic costs associated with the treatment. Emotional processing tasks at 2 and 6 weeks.<br><br><br>;Timepoint(s) of evaluation of this end point: PHQ9, BDI-II and GAD7, EQ5D and SF12 at 2, 6 and 12 weeks. Emotional processing tasks at 2 and 6 weeks
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