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Aripiprazole Once-monthly Versus Daily Oral Atypical Antipsychotic Treatment in Patients With Recent-onset Schizophrenia

Conditions
Schizophrenia
Registration Number
NCT03130465
Lead Sponsor
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Europe Ltd
Brief Summary

This is an observational, non-interventional study that will include two cohorts of patients with schizophrenia who initiated maintenance treatment during a schizophrenia-related hospitalisation or during the immediate three months after hospital discharge: patients who initiated maintenance treatment with AOM and patients who initiated maintenance treatment with any daily oral atypical AP.

Detailed Description

This is an observational, non-interventional study that will include two cohorts of patients with schizophrenia who initiated maintenance treatment during a schizophrenia-related hospitalisation or during the immediate three months after hospital discharge: patients who initiated maintenance treatment with AOM and patients who initiated maintenance treatment with any daily oral atypical AP.

The date of maintenance treatment initiation will be considered the index date (see definition of maintenance treatment initiation in Section 3.1). Baseline data will be collected immediately after the inclusion of the patient in the study (including retrospective data from the index date to the date of informed consent and from the past 5 years). From the index date, each patient will be followed up until discontinuation of the maintenance treatment of interest and up to a maximum of 12 months. Especially after the implementation of the Global Amendment nº1, it is possible that the complete follow-up of the patient took place in the past (retrospective data), i.e. before the inclusion of the subject in the study. Data will be collected from the patient file and from information obtained during routine visits scheduled according to clinical practice.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
636
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Adult patients between ≥18 and ≤35 years of age

  2. Diagnosis of schizophrenia confirmed by the current investigator.

  3. Initiation of maintenance treatment with AOM (at least one injection) or with daily oral atypical AP before the study start at the site and up to a maximum of 6 months after the launch of AOM in the country, during an inpatient stay due to an acute schizophrenia episode or during the immediate three months after hospital discharge, and prescribed in the usual manner in accordance with the terms of the marketing authorisation.*

    Patients treated in the daycare hospital will be considered:

    • Eligible to be included, if the patient was admitted in the hospital (full time inpatient stay) for an acute psychotic episode and then discharged to a day care hospital in order to achieve stabilization and initiate maintenance antipsychotic treatment. The initiation of the maintenance antipsychotic treatment (index date) must occur before discharge from day care hospital or during the immediate following three months after discharge.

    • NOT eligible, if the patient was treated exclusively in the day care hospital since the first day (i.e. not spending any night at all in the hospital) as these patients are very likely to be subacutely psychotic.

      • The date of initiation of maintenance therapy will be considered the index date. For AOM, it is the date of the first injection. For the oral AP, this date is defined by the physician when patients are believed to be stable enough to be considered "in maintenance treatment".
  4. Willingness to participate in the study; subjects must give their written consent to participate unless: they have discontinued treatment or have finished the 12 months follow up period before study inclusion (retrospective assessment only) and a) written consent not required by local regulations, or b) it would take a non-reasonable effort† or c) the source patient is deceased or untraceable.

    • A reasonable effort is defined as 3 contact attempts separated by 3 weeks. All efforts to obtain the informed consent, reasonable or not, shall be registered in the medical history of the patient to be used as documental source.

If allowable by local regulations/Ethics Committees, provision of oral (e.g., by phone) instead of written consent is also possible for patients with retrospective assessment only.

Exclusion Criteria
  1. The patient has a psychiatric disorder other than schizophrenia which is established as the primary diagnosis
  2. Chronically hospitalized patients (defined as more than 3 months).
  3. Participation in an interventional clinical trial since AOM or daily oral atypical AP were initiated as maintenance treatment or within the previous 6 months to this initiation.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Time (days) to all-cause treatment discontinuation for AOM or daily oral atypical APFirst 12 months after initiation of maintenance treatment

Treatment discontinuation is defined as the interruption, replacement or addition of a new antipsychotic drug to the main antipsychotic initiated at index date (AOM or daily oral atypical AP).

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change over time in CGI-S (score)From index date up to a maximun of 12 months

To compare the evolution in disease severity according to Clinical Global Impression-Disease Severity (CGI-S) scale from initiation of maintenance treatment and up to the end of follow-up (12 months or up to discontinuation) between patients with recent-onset schizophrenia treated with AOM or with a daily oral atypical AP as maintenance treatment.

Change over time in QLS-5 (score)From index date up to a maximun of 12 months

To compare the clinical and functional outcomes according to the 5-item Quality of Life Scale for schizophrenia (QLS-5) from initiation of maintenance treatment and up to the end of follow-up (12 months or up to discontinuation) between patients with recent-onset schizophrenia treated with AOM or with a daily oral atypical AP as maintenance treatment.

Treatment discontinuation rate (%) and description of the reasons for treatment discontinuationFirst 12 months after initiation of maintenance treatment

To compare the treatment discontinuation rate and the reasons for this discontinuation during the first 12 months after initiation of maintenance treatment between patients with recent-onset schizophrenia treated with AOM or with a daily oral atypical AP.

Relapse rate (%) in the first 12 months after initiation of maintenance treatmentFirst 12 months after initiation of maintenance treatment

To compare the relapse rate in the first 12 months after initiation of maintenance treatment between patients with recent-onset schizophrenia treated with AOM or with a daily oral atypical AP.

All-cause hospitalisation rate (%) in the first 12 months after initiation of maintenance treatment, time to first all-cause hospitalisation and length of hospitalisation(admission/discharge dates)From index date up to a maximun of 12 months

To compare all cause hospitalisations in the first 12 months after initiation of maintenance treatment between patients with recent-onset schizophrenia treated with AOM or with a daily oral atypical AP.

Mental health-related hospitalisation rate (%) in the first 12 months after initiation of maintenance treatment, time to first mental health-related hospitalisation and length of mental-health related hospitalisation (admission/discharge dates)From index date up to a maximun of 12 months

To compare mental health-related hospitalisations in the first 12 months after initiation of maintenance treatment between patients with recent-onset schizophrenia treated with AOM or with a daily oral atypical AP.

Description of health resource use (HRU) related to schizophrenia (hospitalisations, medications, non-pharmacological therapies, outpatient visits, procedures)From index date up to a maximun of 12 months

To compare the health resource use related to schizophrenia in the first 12 months after initiation of maintenance treatment between patients with recent-onset schizophrenia treated with AOM or with a daily oral atypical AP.

Trial Locations

Locations (67)

Centre Psychotherapique Nancy

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Laxou, France

Centre Hospitalier Esquirol

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Limoges, France

H. Paul-Guiraud Clamart

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Clamart, France

CH Jonzac

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Jonzac, France

CHS-La Colombière

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Montpellier, France

CH Sainte Marie

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Nice, France

Hospital Maison Blanche XX Bichat

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Paris, France

Hospital Sainte Anne

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Paris, France

CHU Pasteur

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Nice, France

Centre Hospitalier Alpes Isere

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Saint-Egreve, France

CHU-Saint Etienne

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Saint Etienne, France

CHS St. Remy

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Vesoul, France

Rheinhessen-Fachklinik Alzey

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Alzey, Germany

Vivantes Klinikum

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Berlin, Germany

LVR- Klinikum Düsseldorf

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Dusseldorf, Germany

Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes

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Homburg, Germany

Kbo-Isar-Ampere-Klinikum Taufkirchen

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Taufkirchen, Germany

Universitätsklinikum Magdeburg

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Magdeburg, Germany

Ospedale Versilia di Camaiore

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Camaiore, Italy

Mental Health Department (MDSM) ASP di Messina

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Messina, Italy

Centro Salute Mentale di Pesaro

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Pesaro, Italy

Dipartimento di Salute Mentale -ASL Modena

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Modena, Italy

Ospedale Madonna del Soccorso San Bendedetto del Tronto

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San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy

Hermanas Hospitalarias de Málaga

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Malaga, Spain

Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla

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Santander, Spain

Hospital Provincial de Toledo

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Toledo, Spain

Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona

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Ancona, Italy

Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Consorziale Policlinico di Bari

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Bari, Italy

Cura Neuropsichiatria Villa Von Siebenthal

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Genzano Di Roma, Italy

P.O. di Giulianova Dipartimento di Salute Mentale Servizio di Psichiatria di Diagnosi e Cura

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Giulianova, Italy

Ospedale Niguarda

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Milan, Italy

Azienda Ospedaliera "Sant' Andrea" di Roma - U.O.C. di Psichiatria

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Roma, Italy

Fondazione PTV Policlinico Tor Vergara

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Roma, Italy

Villa Maria Dia Hospital

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Rome, Italy

Unit Mental Health District Nº72- ASL Salerno

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Salerno, Italy

Unita Operativa- Salute Mentale di Salerno

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Salerno, Italy

Centro di Salute Mentale

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Saluzzo, Italy

Dipartimento di Salute Mentale- ASL Napoli

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San Giorgio a Cremano, Italy

CHU Nantes Hospital Saint Jacques

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Nantes, France

Centre Hospitalier Henri laborit

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Poitiers, France

Centre Hospitalier Gillaume regnier-CHGR

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Rennes, France

CHITS - Hôpital Chalucet

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Toulon, France

Hospital Punta de Europa

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Algeciras, Cadiz, Spain

IINA (Instituto Internacional de Neurociencias Aplicadas)

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Barcelona, Spain

ASL di Teramo

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Teramo, Italy

Hospital Príncipe de Asturias

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Alcala de Henares, Spain

Hospital Son Espases

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Palma, Spain

Hospital Parc Taulí

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Sabadell, Spain

Hospital de Sant pau

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Barcelona, Spain

Hospital del Mar

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Barcelona, Spain

Hospital santa Caterina -IAS

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Girona, Spain

Hospital Clínic de Barcelona

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Barcelona, Spain

Hospital Universitario de Cruces

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Bilbao, Spain

Hospital Campus de la Salud

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Granada, Spain

Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez

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Huelva, Spain

Hospital de Jerez

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Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge

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L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain

Hospital Fundación Jiménez Díaz

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Madrid, Spain

Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia

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Valencia, Spain

Hospital General Universitario Morales Meseguer

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Murcia, Spain

Hospital Clínico San Carlos

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Madrid, Spain

Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro

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Vigo, Spain

Hospital Sant Joan de Déu de Sant Boi

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Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain

Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre

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Madrid, Spain

Hospital Provincial de Zamora

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Zamora, Spain

Hospital de Vic

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Vic, Spain

Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe

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Valencia, Spain

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