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临床试验/NCT00300313
NCT00300313已完成不适用

PTSD Prevention Using Escitalopram

Sheba Medical Center5 个研究点 分布在 1 个国家目标入组 450 人开始时间: 2005年6月最近更新:
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试验速览

阶段
不适用
状态
已完成
入组人数
450
试验地点
5
主要终点
CAPS

研究概览

简要总结

Assessing the efficacy of escitalopram in preventing the development of PTSD, or or reducing its severeness, after exposure to a traumatic event.

研究设计

研究类型
Interventional
分配方式
Randomized
干预模型
Parallel
主要目的
Prevention
盲法
Double (Participant, Investigator)

入排标准

年龄范围
18 Years 至 65 Years(Adult, Older Adult)
性别
All
接受健康志愿者

入选标准

  • The patient is able to read and understand the Patient Informed Consent.
  • The patient has signed the Patient Informed Consent.
  • The patient has sufficient knowledge of Hebrew in order to understand the study procedure and instruments
  • The patient is male or female aged between 18 and 65 years (extremes included).
  • The patient underwent a traumatic event, such as vehicle or other accident, terror attack, physical or sexual assault within the last 3 weeks, and no more than 4 weeks ago.
  • The patient meets either of the following criteria:
  • Full DSM-IV criteria for ASD
  • Intrusion and hyperarousal criteria only

排除标准

  • The patient refuses having any medication therapy. This patient will be referred to another treatment outside the study frame.
  • The patient has a serious physical injury at inclusion, in which his Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) score, for at least one of his body regions, is 3 or more, or that according to the judgment of the clinician his injury sequelae would interfere with the study treatment.
  • The patient uses concomitant medications not allowed in the study:
  • Antidepressants, including MAOI, RIMA within the last 3 weeks prior to screening.
  • Mood stabilizers within the last 3 weeks prior to screening.
  • Antipsychotic medications within the last 3 weeks prior to screening.
  • Anxiolytics 2 weeks in a row before randomization. Patient can participate in the study if did not take the medications for 3 days over the two weeks before randomization. Except for oxazepam 10-20 mg/day no more than 7 days in a raw.
  • Serotonergic agonists (e.g. triptans) within the last 2 weeks prior to screening.
  • Prophylactic treatment with any anticonvulsant drug.
  • Herbal remedies that are psychoactive (e.g. St John's Wort, Kava kava, valerian, gingko biloba) within the last 3 weeks prior to screening.
  • The patient meets lifetime DSM-IV-TR criteria for:
  • Mania or Bipolar disorder
  • Schizophrenia
  • Any personality disorder judged by the investigator to jeopardize the evaluation of the treatment.
  • Mental retardation or pervasive disorder
  • Cognitive disorder (inc. dementia)
  • The patient has or has had alcohol or drug abuse related disorders in the last year prior to the screening visit.
  • The patient has, in the investigator's opinion, significant suicide risk and/or a score of ≥ 5 on question 10 in the MADRS scale.
  • The patient has a history of severe suicide attempt.
  • The patient requires ElectroConvulsive Therapy (ECT) or has received ECT within the last year prior to the screening visit.
  • The patient is currently serving in the Israeli security forces.
  • The patient has a history of drug allergy or hypersensitivity, or known hypersensitivity to escitalopram or citalopram.
  • The patient has an illness and/or serious sequelae thereof, severe enough according to the clinician judgment, to prevent his participation in the study, including liver or renal insufficiency; cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, endocrine (inc. uncontrolled thyroid), neurological (inc. epilepsy), infectious, neoplastic, or metabolic disturbances
  • The patient is pregnant or breast-feeding.
  • The patient, if woman of childbearing potential, is not using adequate contraception (adequate contraception is defined as sexual abstinence, oral/systemic contraception, surgical sterilisation, intrauterine device, diaphragm in combination with spermicide, or condom for male partner in combination with spermicide).
  • The patient, in the opinion of the investigator, is unlikely to comply with the clinical study protocol.
  • The patient has previously participated in the current study or in any other study within the last 30 days.
  • The patient has familial relationships with the investigator.

研究组 & 干预措施

1

Active Comparator

干预措施: Escitalopram (Drug)

2

Placebo Comparator

干预措施: Placebo (Drug)

结局指标

主要结局

CAPS

时间窗: 1-year follow-up

次要结局

未报告次要终点

研究者

申办方类型
Other Gov
责任方
Principal Investigator
主要研究者

Prof. Joseph Zohar

Prof. Joseph Zohar

Sheba Medical Center

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