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Clinical Trials/NCT00644969
NCT00644969
Completed
Phase 3

A Phase 3B 12-Week, Double -Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Varenicline Tartrate (CP-526,555) 1 mg BID for Smoking Cessation in Subjects With Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder.

Pfizer1 site in 1 country128 target enrollmentMay 2008

Overview

Phase
Phase 3
Intervention
placebo
Conditions
Smoking Cessation
Sponsor
Pfizer
Enrollment
128
Locations
1
Primary Endpoint
Number of Participants With Adverse Events (AEs) and Serious Adverse Events (SAEs)
Status
Completed
Last Updated
15 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

Study will determine whether patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder can be helped to quit smoking safely while using varenicline and receiving smoking cessation counseling.

Detailed Description

This is a safety study.

Registry
clinicaltrials.gov
Start Date
May 2008
End Date
April 2010
Last Updated
15 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Parallel
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
Pfizer

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Have a diagnosis (using the SCID-I/P at screening visit) of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and judged to be stable (without hospitalization or acute exacerbation and functioning in society) on psychiatric treatment for at least the past 6 month.
  • Current cigarette smokers (at least 15/day during the past year with no period of abstinence greater than 3 months in the past year) male or female, between the ages of 18 and 75 inclusive, who are motivated to stop smoking.
  • Score 7 or higher on the Contemplation Ladder at the Screening, Week -1, and Baseline Visits.

Exclusion Criteria

  • PANSS score \>70 at Screen or Baseline Visit.
  • Subjects hospitalized within the past six months due to suicidal ideation or suicidal behavior or subjects considered to have serious suicidal ideation or suicidal behavior within the past six moth.
  • Subjects having active suicidal ideation or behavior identified at Screen, Week -1, or Baseline Visit.
  • Subjects taking Bupropion.

Arms & Interventions

Placebo Arm

Randomization 2:1 treatment to placebo

Intervention: placebo

Treatment Arm

Intervention: varenicline (CP-526,555)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Number of Participants With Adverse Events (AEs) and Serious Adverse Events (SAEs)

Time Frame: Baseline up to 30 days after last dose of study treatment or up to Week 16

AEs are any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical investigation participant administered a product or medical device. The event does not need to be causally related to the study treatment or usage. SAEs include any untoward medical occurrence that results in death, are life threatening, requires hospitalization or prolongation of hospitalization, results in disability or incapacity or are a congenital anomaly or birth defect in the offspring of a study participant. Lack of efficacy was to be reported as an AE when it was associated with an SAE.

Number of Participants With Psychiatric Adverse Events

Time Frame: Baseline up to Week 24

Psychiatric Adverse Event symptoms included, but were not restricted to, depression, anxiety, hostility, perceptual / thinking disturbance, suicidal ideation, or suicidal behavior based on clinical judgment and use of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale and Columbia Classification Algorithm of Suicide assessments.

Change From Baseline to Week 12 in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS): Total Score

Time Frame: Baseline to Week 12

PANSS includes 30 items rated on a 7-point scale (1=absent, 2=minimal, 3=mild, 4=moderate, 5=moderate severe, 6=severe, 7=extreme) organized as 7 positive symptom subscale items, 7 negative symptom subscale items and 16 general psychopathology items. Total scores range from 30 to 210 with higher scores indicating more extreme symptoms.

Change From Baseline to Week 24 in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS): Total Score

Time Frame: Baseline to Week 24

PANSS includes 30 items rated on a 7-point scale (1=absent, 2=minimal, 3=mild, 4=moderate, 5=moderate severe, 6=severe, 7=extreme) organized as 7 positive symptom subscale items, 7 negative symptom subscale items and 16 general psychopathology items. Total scores range from 30 to 210 with higher scores indicating more extreme symptoms.

Change From Baseline to Week 12 in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS): Positive Symptoms Score

Time Frame: Baseline to Week 12

PANSS includes 30 items rated on a 7-point scale (1=absent, 2=minimal, 3=mild, 4=moderate, 5=moderate severe, 6=severe, 7=extreme) organized as 7 positive symptom subscale items, 7 negative symptom subscale items and 16 general psychopathology items. Positive symptoms (productive symptoms) associated with schizophrenia (delusions, conceptual disorganization, and hallucinatory behavior) are rated on a scale from 1 (absent) to 7 (extreme); total positive subscale scores range from 7 to 49 with higher scores indicating more extreme symptoms.

Change From Baseline to Week 24 in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS): Positive Symptoms Score

Time Frame: Baseline to Week 24

PANSS includes 30 items rated on a 7-point scale (1=absent, 2=minimal, 3=mild, 4=moderate, 5=moderate severe, 6=severe, 7=extreme) organized as 7 positive symptom subscale items, 7 negative symptom subscale items and 16 general psychopathology items. Positive symptoms (productive symptoms) associated with schizophrenia (delusions, conceptual disorganization, and hallucinatory behavior) are rated on a scale from 1 (absent) to 7 (extreme); total positive subscale scores range from 7 to 49 with higher scores indicating more extreme symptoms.

Change From Baseline to Week 12 in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS): Negative Symptoms Score

Time Frame: Baseline to Week 12

PANSS includes 30 items rated on a 7-point scale (1=absent, 2=minimal, 3=mild, 4=moderate, 5=moderate severe, 6=severe, 7=extreme) organized as 7 positive symptom subscale items, 7 negative symptom subscale items and 16 general psychopathology items. Negative symptoms (deficit features) associated with schizophrenia (blunted affect, emotional withdrawal, poor rapport, and passive / apathetic social withdrawal) are rated on a scale from 1 (absent) to 7 (extreme); total negative subscale scores range from 7 to 49 with higher scores indicating more extreme symptoms.

Change From Baseline to Week 24 in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS): Negative Symptoms Score

Time Frame: Baseline to Week 24

PANSS includes 30 items rated on a 7-point scale (1=absent, 2=minimal, 3=mild, 4=moderate, 5=moderate severe, 6=severe, 7=extreme) organized as 7 positive symptom subscale items, 7 negative symptom subscale items and 16 general psychopathology items. Negative symptoms (deficit features) associated with schizophrenia (blunted affect, emotional withdrawal, poor rapport, and passive / apathetic social withdrawal) are rated on a scale from 1 (absent) to 7 (extreme); total negative subscale scores range from 7 to 49 with higher scores indicating more extreme symptoms.

Change From Baseline to Week 12 in Simpson Angus Rating Scale (SARS)

Time Frame: Baseline to Week 12

10-item rating scale to assess the severity of extrapyramidal symptoms rated on a 5-point scale 0 (normal) to 4 (highest severity). Items measured are gait, arm dropping, shoulder shaking, elbow rigidity, wrist rigidity, leg pendulousness, head dropping, glabella tap, tremor, and salivation. Global score calculated by summing individual item scores and dividing by the total number of items; range is 0 to 40 with higher scores indicating greater severity.

Change From Baseline to Week 24 in Simpson Angus Rating Scale (SARS)

Time Frame: Baseline to Week 24

10-item rating scale to assess the severity of extrapyramidal symptoms rated on a 5-point scale 0 (normal) to 4 (highest severity). Items measured are gait, arm dropping, shoulder shaking, elbow rigidity, wrist rigidity, leg pendulousness, head dropping, glabella tap, tremor, and salivation. Global score calculated by summing individual item scores and dividing by the total number of items; range is 0 to 40 with higher scores indicating greater severity.

Number of Participants With Suicidal Behavior and / or Ideation ("Yes" Response) on the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) During the Treatment Phase

Time Frame: Week 1 to Week 12 (Treatment phase)

C-SSRS is a clinician rated assessment of suicidal behavior and / or intent categorized as: Suicidal behavior=a "yes" response to any of 5 suicidal behavior questions (preparatory acts or behavior, aborted attempt, interrupted attempt, actual attempt, and completed suicide); Suicidal ideation=a "yes" response to any one of 5 suicidal ideation questions which includes wish to be dead, and 4 different categories of active suicidal ideation (thought, thought with method, thought with intent, thought with plan and intent).

Number of Participants With Suicidal Behavior or Suicical Ideation ("Yes" Response ) on the Columbia Suicide-Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) During the Post Treatment Phase

Time Frame: Week 13 to Week 24 (Post treatment phase)

C-SSRS is a clinician rated assessment of suicidal behavior and / or intent categorized as: Suicidal behavior=a "yes" response to any of 5 suicidal behavior questions (preparatory acts or behavior, aborted attempt, interrupted attempt, actual attempt, and completed suicide); Suicidal ideation=a "yes" response to any one of 5 suicidal ideation questions which includes wish to be dead, and 4 different categories of active suicidal ideation (thought, thought with method, thought with intent, thought with plan and intent).

Number of Participants With Shift From Baseline to Week 12 in Clinical Global Impressions Scale-Severity (CGI-S) Score

Time Frame: Baseline (Bsl) to Week 12

CGI-S: 7-point clinician rated scale to assess severity of participant's current illness state; range: 1=normal, not ill at all, 2=borderline mentally ill, 3=mildly ill, 4=moderately ill, 5=markedly ill, 6=severely ill, 7=among the most extremely ill patients. Higher scores reflect higher severity of current illness states.

Number of Participants With Shift From Baseline to Week 24 in Clinical Global Impressions Scale-Severity (CGI-S) Score

Time Frame: Baseline to Week 24

CGI-S: 7-point clinician rated scale to assess severity of participant's current illness state; range: 1=normal, not ill at all, 2=borderline mentally ill, 3=mildly ill, 4=moderately ill, 5=markedly ill, 6=severely ill, 7=among the most extremely ill patients. Higher scores reflect higher severity of current illness states.

Number of Participants With Clinical Global Impression of Improvement Scale (CGI-I) Score at Week 1

Time Frame: Baseline, Week 1

CGI-I: 7-point clinician rated scale ranging from 1=very much improved, 2=much improved, 3=minimally improved, 4=no change, 5=minimally worse, 6=much worse, to 7=very much worse. Improvement is defined as a score of 1 (very much improved), 2 (much improved), or 3 (minimally improved) on the scale. Scores above 4 reflect worsening of illness state as compared to baseline.

Number of Participants With Clinical Global Impression of Improvement Scale (CGI-I) Score at Week 12

Time Frame: Baseline, Week 12

CGI-I: 7-point clinician rated scale ranging from 1=very much improved, 2=much improved, 3=minimally improved, 4=no change, 5=minimally worse, 6=much worse, to 7=very much worse. Improvement is defined as a score of 1 (very much improved), 2 (much improved), or 3 (minimally improved) on the scale. Scores above 4 reflect worsening of illness state as compared to baseline.

Number of Participants With Clinical Global Impression of Improvement Scale (CGI-I) Score at Week 24

Time Frame: Baseline, Week 24

CGI-I: 7-point clinician rated scale ranging from 1=very much improved, 2=much improved, 3=minimally improved, 4=no change, 5=minimally worse, 6=much worse, to 7=very much worse. Improvement is defined as a score of 1 (very much improved), 2 (much improved), or 3 (minimally improved) on the scale. Scores above 4 reflect worsening of illness state as compared to baseline.

Secondary Outcomes

  • Number of Participants With 7-day Point Prevalence of Non-smoking at Week 12(Week 12)
  • Number of Participants With 7-day Point Prevalence of Non-smoking at Week 24(Week 24)
  • Number of Participants With at Least a 50 Percent (%) Reduction From Baseline to Week 12 and Week 24 in the Number of Cigarettes Smoked Per Day(Baseline, Week 12, Week 24)
  • Change From Baseline to Week 12 and Week 24 in the Number of Cigarettes Smoked Per Day(Baseline, Week 12, Week 24)

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