Major Depressive DisorderPhase 4BOLDNCT01082237
Biomarkers for Outcomes In Late-life Depression (BOLD)
A Phase 4 study testing Escitalopram in people with Major Depressive Disorder, run by University of California, Los Angeles at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common psychiatric illness with high cost to society and individual patients. One reason for the high cost is that most patients endure lengthy and ultimately unsuccessful empiric antidepressant trials before a successful medication is identified by trial-and-error. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 62 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Major Depressive Disorder
- What is being tested?
- Escitalopram
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 80 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Oct 2009to Oct 2012
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 62 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- 62 years of age or older
- Meet the DSM-IV diagnosis of MDD based on Sheehan's Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), with a score of > 28 on the 30-item Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology - Self Rated version (IDS-SR30)
Who cannot join
- Subjects will have no unstable medical illness that would prevent completion of participation in the trial, determined as needed from physical examination, ECG, laboratory safety tests, as well as a review of systems
- mentally or legally incapacitated, unable to give informed consent
- meets DSM-IV criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder, any cognitive disorder, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorder, or major depression with psychotic features
- MMSE (Folstein et al., 1975) score ≤ 24
- evidence of drug dependency or substance abuse within the preceding nine months
- stable and in remission on current psychotropic medication(s)
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- any ECT within the past six months
- failure to tolerate ESC or treatment failure with an adequate trial of ESC in the current episode
- ESC would be contraindicated (e.g., hyponatremia with a prior SSRI)
- treatment with fluoxetine or an MAOI within the past four weeks
- any medical illness severe enough to significantly affect brain function or to interfere with interpretation of study results
- history of seizures, brain surgery, skull fracture, significant head trauma, or abnormal EEG
- psychiatric hospitalization indicated (e.g., imminent danger to self or others)
- initial QEEG recording is contaminated with artifact so that determination of the biomarker is precluded
- use of medications known to affect brain function (e.g., antidepressants, anticonvulsants/mood stabilizers, anticholinergics, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines - same list as in BRITE-MD)
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: Biomarkers for Outcomes In Late-life Depression
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common psychiatric illness with high cost to society and individual patients. One reason for the high cost is that most patients endure lengthy and ultimately unsuccessful empiric antidepressant trials before a successful medication is identified by trial-and-error. Care would be improved if a biomarker could determine, early in the course of treatment, whether a particular antidepressant would likely lead to response, remission, or treatment failure. Physicians could rapidly change treatments to an antidepressant which the biomarker indicated would be likely to help the patient. We have identified quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) changes that emerge early in the course of treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that appear to predict later response and remission in a general adult patient population. Demographic trends in the United States suggest that improved care for MDD will be essential for a growing number of elderly with late-life depression. While the consequences of prolonged trial-and-error periods to find a successful treatment are particularly inauspicious for elders with late-life depression, this patient group has not been included in the past studies which demonstrated the use of this biomarker approach in a general adult population. We propose a 12-week treatment trial to evaluate a practical biomarker for predicting outcome based on data from the first week of antidepressant treatment, with a focus only on depression in late life (age ≥65).
There are three study Hypothesis:
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H1) ATR prediction of treatment outcome in older subjects will show >70% accuracy.
H2) The predictive accuracy of the model will be enhanced by including clinical, socio-demographic, and genetic predictors.
H3) The accuracy of ATR prediction will not show a significant dependence on subject gender.
- Conditions
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Being tested
- Escitalopram
- Keywords
- Major Depressive Disorder, EEG, SSRI
- Medical subject headings
- Depressive Disorder, Major
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
EscitalopramDrug
Also called Lexapro
Start at 5mg per day, after four days increase to 10mg per day for the duration of the study. 20 mg will be administered at week 8 if not significantly better.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| escitalopram | Active comparator | All subjects will receive escitalopram (ESC), brand name Lexapro (Forest Laboratories, Inc., New York) throughout the study. Dosing will start at 5 mg/d, be titrated to 10 mg after 4 days, and continue at 10 mg/d thereafter; an additional dose titration to 20 mg will be pursued at week 8 for those not significantly better (<50% improvement on IDS-30 at week 8 visit) and as tolerated. Receives: Drug: Escitalopram |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Score on Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D)
Measured: Measured nine times over 8 weeks
Secondary outcomes (1)
Score on Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Clinician Rated (IDS-C30)
Measured: Measured nine times over 8 weeks
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted8 Mar 2010 (estimated)
- Study startOct 2009
- Primary completionOct 2012
- Study completionOct 2012
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Major Depressive DisorderStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by University of California, Los AngelesThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 80 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Ian A. Cook, M.D., National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Investigators
- Ian A Cook, MD, Principal investigator, University of California, Los Angeles
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT01082237
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 1RC1MH088438
- Other IDs
- 1RC1MH088438
- Acronym
- BOLD
- Status last verified
- Apr 2013
- First submitted
- 5 Mar 2010
- Last updated
- 16 Apr 2013
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 16 Apr 2013. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Biomarkers for Outcomes In Late-life Depression
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT01082237
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- BOLD / 1RC1MH088438
- Conditions
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Keywords
- Major Depressive Disorder, EEG, SSRI
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 80 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- University of California, Los AngelesUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Study start
- Oct 2009
- Primary completion
- Oct 2012 (actual)
- Study completion
- Oct 2012 (actual)
- First posted
- 8 Mar 2010 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common psychiatric illness with high cost to society and individual patients. One reason for the high cost is that most patients endure lengthy and ultimately unsuccessful empiric antidepressant trials before a successful medication is identified by trial-and-error. Care would be improved if a biomarker could determine, early in the course of treatment, whether a particular antidepressant would likely lead to response, remission, or treatment failure. Physicians could rapidly change treatments to an antidepressant which the biomarker indicated would be likely to help the patient. We have identified quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) changes that emerge early in the course of treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that appear to predict later response and remission in a general adult patient population. Demographic trends in the United States suggest that improved care for MDD will be essential for a growing number of elderly with late-life depression. While the consequences of prolonged trial-and-error periods to find a successful treatment are particularly inauspicious for elders with late-life depression, this patient group has not been included in the past studies which demonstrated the use of this biomarker approach in a general adult population. We propose a 12-week treatment trial to evaluate a practical biomarker for predicting outcome based on data from the first week of antidepressant treatment, with a focus only on depression in late life (age ≥65).
There are three study Hypothesis:
H1) ATR prediction of treatment outcome in older subjects will show >70% accuracy.
H2) The predictive accuracy of the model will be enhanced by including clinical, socio-demographic, and genetic predictors.
H3) The accuracy of ATR prediction will not show a significant dependence on subject gender.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 1
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| escitalopram | Active comparator | Drug: EscitalopramAll subjects will receive escitalopram (ESC), brand name Lexapro (Forest Laboratories, Inc., New York) throughout the study. Dosing will start at 5 mg/d, be titrated to 10 mg after 4 days, and continue at 10 mg/d thereafter; an additional dose titration to 20 mg will be pursued at week 8 for those not significantly better (<50% improvement on IDS-30 at week 8 visit) and as tolerated. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 62 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (2 listed)
- 62 years of age or older
- Meet the DSM-IV diagnosis of MDD based on Sheehan's Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), with a score of > 28 on the 30-item Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology - Self Rated version (IDS-SR30)
Key exclusion criteria (15 listed)
- Subjects will have no unstable medical illness that would prevent completion of participation in the trial, determined as needed from physical examination, ECG, laboratory safety tests, as well as a review of systems
- mentally or legally incapacitated, unable to give informed consent
- meets DSM-IV criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder, any cognitive disorder, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorder, or major depression with psychotic features
- MMSE (Folstein et al., 1975) score ≤ 24
- evidence of drug dependency or substance abuse within the preceding nine months
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| EscitalopramAlso: LexaproStart at 5mg per day, after four days increase to 10mg per day for the duration of the study. 20 mg will be administered at week 8 if not significantly better. | Drug | escitalopram |
Primary outcome
Score on Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D)
Time frame: Measured nine times over 8 weeks
1 secondary outcome
Score on Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Clinician Rated (IDS-C30)
Time frame: Measured nine times over 8 weeks
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 16 Apr 2013.
- DepressionLink provided by the sponsor.
- EscitalopramLink provided by the sponsor.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Ian A Cook, MD principal investigator
University of California, Los Angeles
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A Phase 4 study testing Escitalopram in people with Major Depressive Disorder, run by University of California, Los Angeles at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 2 inclusion and 15 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 16 Apr 2013. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
What does this phase mean?
Phase 4 studies take place after a treatment is approved, to learn more about its long-term benefits and risks in everyday use.
Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Score on Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) (time frame: Measured nine times over 8 weeks). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 16 Apr 2013.