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The Effect of Long-acting Antipsychotics on Schizophrenia Patients With Violence Risk

Conditions
Schizophrenia
Registration Number
NCT04064476
Lead Sponsor
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Brief Summary

This is a 49 weeks prospective, non-interventional cohort study. To observe the effect of long-acting injection antipsychotic(LAI), paliperidone palmitate on prevention of recurrence and symptom control in schizophrenia patients with violence risk. This study can be extended according to the implementation of the project and extended follow-up time.

Detailed Description

This is a 49 weeks prospective, observational cohort study. Wuhan initiated a project to improve the LAI treatment in schizophrenia patient with violence risk. This observational study will build the cohort of schizophrenia patient with violence risk and treated with LAI paliperidone palmitate. The effect of long-acting antipsychotic, paliperidone palmitate, will be observed on prevention of recurrence and symptom control in these patients. safety information and laboratory tests result will also be collected. This study can be extended according to the implementation of the project and extended follow-up time.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
225
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale(PANSS)49 Weeks

PANSS score change. PANSS was used to assess schizophrenia psychopathology symptoms of subjects. PANSS gave a total score (total score of 30 items) and three subscale scores, positive subscale (7 items), negative subscale (7 items), general psychopathology symptoms subscale (16 items) . Each scale rated from 1 (none) to 7 (very heavy).

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Hospitalization frequency49 Weeks

Hospitalization due to schizophrenia during 49 weeks

Visual Analogue Scale-100 (VAS 100) of caregiver treatment satisfaction49 Weeks

The Caregiver' VAS 100 score change. caregiver rate according to their treatment satisfaction, score from 1( extremely unsatisfied) to 100( extremely satisfied. measure, 26 important questions are scored in environmental, social, physical and psychological domains, each question from 1-5

Violence Risk Assessment For Psychiatric Patients49 Weeks

The Violence risk assessment scale for psychotic patients is a 0-5 score scale, established by the China national working group and used in the China National Continuing Management and Intervention Program for Psychoses, to evaluate psychotic patients' risk of violence \[12\]. 0 is no violence. 1 is verbal threat, shouting, but without aggressive behavior. 2 is beating or smashing property, limited in home. 3 is beating or smashing property in any place, cannot be dissuaded, but did not hurt people. 4. Consistently beating or smashing property or people in any place, cannot be dissuaded. 5, Any violent behavior with the dangerous weapon, or arson.

Visual Analogue Scale-100 (VAS 100) of caregiver's treatment satisfication49 Weeks

The caregivers' VAS 100 score change.Caregivers rate according to their treatment satisfication, score from

1( extremely unsatisfied) to 100( extremely satisfied.

Treatment Emergent Symptom Scale (TESS)49 Weeks

Treatment Emergent Symptom Scale (TESS) is a checklist including common adverse event in psychotic treatment.

each item rate from 0( no) to 4 (heavy)

Electrocardiogram (ECG)49 Weeks

ECG testing should be performed in a quiet non-interference (such as TV, mobile) environment for the subjects. Before testing ECG the subjects should rest in the supine position for at least 5 minutes and should be limited to conversation or physical activity. Twelve-lead ECG was recorded by 25 mm/sec paper speed, measuring RR, PR, QRS and QT intervals

Adverse events49 Weeks

The frequency of adverse events in the treatment period

Modified Overt Aggression Scale (MOAS)49 Weeks

Score change of Modified Overt Aggression Scale (MOAS ). MOAS is used to assess aggressive behavior of psychosis patients. Including Verbal aggressive, aggressive to property, aggressive to self, aggressive to others, and total score. Each domain with score 0 to 4, total weighted score 0 to 40

Renal function tests49 weeks

Renal function tests includes blood tests that provide information about blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine.

WHO Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) of patients49 Weeks

The patients' WHOQOL-BREF score. The WHOQOL-BREF offers a short, generic, subjective quality of life (QoL) measure, 26 important questions are scored in environmental, social, physical and psychological domains, each question from 1-5.

Visual Analogue Scale-100 (VAS 100) of patients treatment satisfaction49 Weeks

The patients' VAS 100 score change. Patients rate according to their treatment satisfaction, score from 1( extremely unsatisfied) to 100( extremely satisfied.

Personal and Social Performance Scale (PSP)49 Weeks

PSP was a clinical scoring tool that was used for personal and social function assessment in schizophrenia subjects, and the score ranged between 1 and 100. The scale defined a continuous functional status, from overall function impaired (completely lack of independent basic functions, survival is significantly dangerous) to function well. The scale takes four functional dimensions into account: a) social useful activities, including work and study, b) the relationship between the individual and society, c) self-care, and d) disturbing and aggression

Calgary Depression Scale of Schizophrenia(CDSS)49 weeks

Calgary Depression Scale of Schizophrenia is a scale to assess the depression symptom in schizophrenia patients, It comprises of 9 items, each item has 4 grade(0, 1, 2, 3), the higher score means more serious depression. Maximize score is 27 points. Above 6 points reflect has depression symptom.

Liver function tests49 weeks

Liver function tests are groups of blood tests that provide information about the state of a patient's liver. In this case includes alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST).

RBANS49 weeks

Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuro-psychological Status (RBANS), The RBANS provides SS based on same-aged peers for 5 indexes of neuropsychological functioning: Attention, Language, Visuospatial-Construction, Immediate Memory, and Delayed Memory . These indexes combine to compute a total scale score of cognitive functioning

Interpersonal Reactivity Index(IRI)49 weeks

Interpersonal Reactivity Index. The IRI was designed to assess empathy.It contains 4 sub-scales, each with 7 items. It uses a 5-item Likert scale with two anchors (A = Does not describe me well; E= Describes me very well). Responses can be averaged (using 0 to 4 or 1 to 5 endpoints) or summed (using 0 to 28 or 7 to 35 ranges). The IRI is a continuous measure of empathy in normal populations and not a categorical ,measure ("high empathy" versus "low empathy").

Blood glucose tests49 weeks

Using blood glucose monitoring to perform fingerprick type of glucose meter.

Blood lipid tests49 weeks

Liver function tests are groups of blood tests that provide information about high density lipoprotein (HDL), low density lipoprotein (LDL) and triglyceride.

STROOP test49 weeks

The test is considered to measure selective attention, cognitive flexibility and processing speed, and it is used as a tool in the evaluation of executive functions. The color of the character should be named both in undisturbed and disturbed condition. The time spent in both cases will be compared

Facial Emotion Recognition scale49 weeks

Computer-morphed images derived from the facial features of real individuals, each showing a specific emotion, are displayed on the screen, one at a time. Each face is displayed for 200ms and then immediately covered up to prevent residual processing of the image. The participant must select which emotion the face displayed from 6 options (sadness, happiness, fear, anger, disgust or surprise). The outcome measures for ERT cover percentages and numbers correct or incorrect and overall response latencies, which can be looked at either across individual emotions or across all emotions at once.

Toronto Alexithymia Scale(TAS)49 weeks

Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the TAS is a 20-item instrument that commonly used measures of alexithymia. It is a self-report scale that is comprised of 20 items. Items are rated using a 5-point Likert scale whereby 1 = strongly disagree and 5 = strongly agree. There are 5 items that are negatively keyed (items 4, 5, 10, 18 and 19). The total alexithymia score is the sum of responses to all 20 items, while the score for each subscale factor is the sum of the responses to that subscale. The TAS-20 uses cutoff scoring: equal to or less than 51 = non-alexithymia, equal to or greater than 61 = alexithymia. Scores of 52 to 60 = possible alexithymia.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Wuhan mental health center

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Wuhan, Hubei, China

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