Observational study to evaluate and compare the intensity and duration of pai
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- In patients with arthritis
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2017/08/009381
- Lead Sponsor
- Akums Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 12
1 Patients already diagnosed with arthritis (Rheumatoid arthritis or Osteoarthritis), at least 6 months before to screening.
2 Patients (male and female) having arthritis pain with VAS score up to 7 (mild to moderate pain).
3 Patients with Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) score between 0-2 for each question.
4 Patients who are able to and willing to provide written informed consent.
5 Cooperative and understanding skills.
6 Patients willing and assessed to be able to participate in all aspects of the core study, including administration of intramuscular injection in the gluteal region, completion of evaluations, and compliance with protocol requirements.
1 Hypersensitivity to the drugs components or other drug from same class.
2 Patient unable to refrain from alcohol, psychoactive drugs, and sedatives including sleeping preparations (e.g. benzodiazepines) for the duration of their participation in the study
3 Patient with history of drug of abuse.
4 Patients at risk for respiratory depression, patients with increased intracranial pressure or head injury, suffering from severe headache
5 Patients recently faced any viral or bacterial infection.
6 Patients have received any biological disease modifying anti rheumatic drugs (eg. Methotrexate, Cyclosporine etc.)
7 Any psychiatric diseases (including major depression), epilepsy, blood disorders like porphyria.
8 Patients under treatment for chronic allergy.
9 Clinical evidence of immunosuppression.
10 Having participated in other clinical trial less than one year prior to screening.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To determine the change in the VAS scale scoreTimepoint: after 4 hours
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method umber of participants reporting adverse eventsTimepoint: 4 hours;Number of participants reporting hypersensitivity reactionsTimepoint: 4 hrs;Number of participants reporting presence of other parameters such as hives, itching, skin rash, wheezing or breathing difficulty, swelling of the face, lips or tongue, faintingTimepoint: 10 minutes, 60 minutes and 240 minutes