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Mirror-image Study of Paliperidone Palmitate and Risperidone Long-acting Injection

Conditions
Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
Interventions
Registration Number
NCT03390712
Lead Sponsor
Réseau de Santé Vitalité Health Network
Brief Summary

The primary objective of this single-center multi-site retrospective chart review is to determine if paliperidone palmitate and/or risperidone long-acting injection can decrease the number of psychiatric relapses following their initiation in an inpatient acute psychiatric unit compared to oral antipsychotic therapy and determine if one treatment is superior to the other in this regard. This study will utilize a mirror-image design and incorporate up to a 3 years of follow-up following the index admission. Secondary objectives of this study will be to determine the change in hospital resource utilization for psychiatric reasons following treatment initiation, and to determine the difference in time to relapse.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
328
Inclusion Criteria

• Patients who were initiated on either Risperidone long-acting injection or Paliperidone palmitate during an acute psychiatric admission for schizophrenia or other psychotic related disorders.

Exclusion Criteria
  • Patients who had their long-acting injection stopped prior to the discharge date of their index admission.
  • Patients who received a long-acting injection in the year prior to the index admission.
  • Patients who had a psychiatric admission to a forensic, rehabilitation or high dependency unit during the observation period prior to or following their index admission.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Risperidone Long-acting injection.Risperidal ConstaPatients who have received a minimum of 3 months of treatment with Risperidone long-acting injection.
Paliperidone PalmitatePaliperidone PalmitatePatients who have received a minimum of 3 months of treatment with an injection of paliperidone palmitate.
Paliperidone PalmitateAntipsychoticPatients who have received a minimum of 3 months of treatment with an injection of paliperidone palmitate.
Risperidone Long-acting injection.AntipsychoticPatients who have received a minimum of 3 months of treatment with Risperidone long-acting injection.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Psychiatric Relapseup to 3 years

Hospitalizations will be used as a proxy for relapse and the primary endpoint will be the number of hospital admissions following the discharge date of the index admission for up to 3 years compared to an equivalent timeframe prior to the beginning of the index admission (and including the 1st day of the index admission). Patients will be considered eligible for the primary objective after 3 months of continued long-acting injection treatment.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Hospital Resource utilization for psychiatric reasonsup to 3 years

Number of ER visits for psychiatric reasons, number of days admitted in hospital for psychiatric reasons.

Time to relapseup to 3 years

time following discharge of index admission until the subsequent admission for psychiatric reasons (in days); time following discharge of index admission until the subsequent ER visit for psychiatric reasons (in days).

Trial Locations

Locations (4)

Dr. George-L.-Dumont University Hospital Center

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Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Edmundston Regional Hospital

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Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada

Chaleur Regional Hospital

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Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada

Campbellton Regional Hospital

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Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada

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