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Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake DisorderPhase 3NCT01430754

Withdrawal Study to Demonstrate the Maintenance Effect in the Treatment of Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder

A Phase 3 study testing tasimelteon in people with Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder, run by Vanda Pharmaceuticals at 22 sites in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the maintenance effect and safety of 20 mg tasimelteon versus placebo in subjects suffering from Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Any age
Conditions the study is for
Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder
What is being tested?
tasimelteon
Type of treatment
Pill or oral medicine
Could I receive a placebo?
Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
How many people
20 participants
Where
22 sitesUnited States
Study dates
Sep 2011to Dec 2012
Phase
Phase 3
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

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 Any age
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Ability and acceptance to provide informed consent;
  • Males, non-fecund females (i.e., surgically sterilized, if procedure was done 6 months before screening or subject is postmenopausal, without menses for 6 months before screening), or females of child-bearing potential using an acceptable method of birth control for a period of 35 days before the first dosing and must have a negative pregnancy test at the screening and baseline visits; Note: Women using hormonal methods of birth control must use an additional method of birth control during the study and for one month after the last dose.
  • Willing and able to comply with study requirements and restrictions including a commitment to a fixed 9-hour sleep opportunity during the study;
  • Diagnosis of N24HSWD in a previous clinical trial as measured by a tau value of > 24.1 and the lower bound of the 95% CI is > 24.

Who cannot join

  • History (within the 12 months prior to screening) of psychiatric disorders including Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Axis II Disorders, delirium or any other psychiatric disorder, that is not being successfully treated or has not been resolved and that in the opinion of the clinical investigator would affect participation in the study or full compliance with study procedures;
  • History of intolerance and/or hypersensitivity to melatonin or melatonin agonists;
  • History of drug or alcohol abuse as defined in DSM-IV, Diagnostic Criteria for Drug and Alcohol Abuse, within the 12 months prior to screening and/or regular consumption of alcoholic drinks (> 2 drinks/day or > 14 drinks/week);
  • Note: A standard drink is equal to 13.7 grams (0.6 ounces) of pure alcohol or
  • 12-ounces of beer
  • 8-ounces of malt liquor
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  • 5-ounces of wine
  • 1.5-ounces or a "shot" of 80-proof distilled spirits or liquor (e.g., gin, rum, vodka, or whiskey);
  • Subject is at risk of suicide, in the opinion of the Investigator. Evidence of suicide risk could include any suicide attempt within the past year or any other suicidal behavior within the past year;
  • Current clinically significant cardiovascular, respiratory, neurologic, hepatic, hematopoietic, renal, gastrointestinal or metabolic dysfunction unless currently controlled and stable;
  • Subjects who have estimated creatinine clearance (CLcr; based on the Cockcroft-Gault equation) ≤ to 55 mL/min;
  • Clinically significant deviation from normal in clinical laboratory results, vital signs measurements, or physical examination findings at screening as determined by the clinical investigator;
  • Indication of impaired liver function (values for AST, ALT or bilirubin > 2 times Upper Limit of Normal);
  • Pregnant or lactating females;
  • A positive test for drugs of abuse at the screening visit; Note: A positive drug screen at Visit 1 needs to be discussed with the medical monitor and will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
  • Smoke more than 10 cigarettes/day;
  • Worked night, rotating, or split (period of work, followed by break, and then return to work) shift work within 1 month of the screening visit or plan to work these shifts during the study;
  • Unwilling or unable to follow the medication restrictions described in Section 8.2., or unwilling or unable to sufficiently wash-out from use of a restricted medication
  • Unable to perform calls to the study IVR system to report questionnaire results;
  • Any other sound medical reason as determined by the clinical investigator;
  • Legal incompetence or limited legal competence, detainment in an institution for official or legal reasons.

Trial locations and contacts

22 sites in 1 country.

22 sites in 1 country

United States22 sites
  • Michigan Head-Pain Neurological Institute

    Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48104

  • Sleep Disorders Center Of Georgia

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30342

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02115

  • PAB Clinical Research Inc.

    Brandon, Florida, 33511

  • St. Luke's Sleep Medicine and Research Center (St. Louis Metropolitan Area)

    Chesterfield, Missouri, 63017

  • The Center for Sleep and Wake Disorders (Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area)

    Chevy Chase, Maryland, 20815

  • SleepMed, Inc. - Columbia

    Columbia, South Carolina, 29201

  • Radiant Research - Denver

    Denver, Colorado, 80239

  • Ohio Sleep Medicine Institute (Columbus Metropolitan Area)

    Dublin, Ohio, 43017

  • Suburban Lung Associates SC

    Elk Grove Village, Illinois, 60007

  • Todd J. Swick, M.D., P.A.

    Houston, Texas, 77063

  • Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital - Sleep Disorders Center (Philadelphia Metropolitan Area)

    Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, 19444

  • Kendall South Medical Center, Inc.

    Miami, Florida, 33175

  • New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

    New York, New York, 10003

  • Lynn Health Science Institute

    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73112

  • SDS Clinical Trials Inc.

    Orange, California, 92868

  • Ocean Sleep Disorders Center - Ormond Beach

    Ormond Beach, Florida, 32174

  • VA Palo Alto Health Care System/PAIRE (San Fransisco Bay Area)

    Palo Alto, California, 94304

  • Pulmonary Associates, PA

    Phoenix, Arizona, 85006

  • Consolidated Clinical trials

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15221

  • Columbia Research Group Inc.

    Portland, Oregon, 97239

  • St. Johns Sleep Disorder Center - St. Johns Medical Plaza

    Santa Monica, California, 90404

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About this study

Official title: A Randomized Withdrawal Study to Demonstrate the Maintenance of Effect of 20 mg Tasimelteon in the Treatment of N24HSWD

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the maintenance effect and safety of 20 mg tasimelteon versus placebo in subjects suffering from Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder.

Read the detailed description

Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder (N24HSWD) occurs when individuals are unable to synchronize their endogenous circadian pacemaker to the 24-hour light-dark cycle, and the timing of their circadian rhythm instead reflects the intrinsic period of their endogenous circadian pacemaker. As a result, the circadian rhythm of sleep-wake propensity in these individuals moves gradually later and later each day if there circadian period is > 24 hours and earlier and earlier is < 24 hours. These individuals will be able to sleep well at night when their sleep-wake propensity rhythm is approximately aligned with the 24-hour light-dark and social cycle. However, after a short time, the endogenous sleep-wake propensity rhythm and the 24-hour light-dark cycle will move out of synchrony with each other, and they may have difficulty falling asleep until well into the night. In addition to problems sleeping at the desired time, the subjects experience daytime sleepiness and daytime napping. As time progresses, the endogenous circadian rhythm of sleep-wake propensity in these individuals moves further and further away from the 24-hour light-dark cycle and gradually, these individuals are unable to sleep at night and as a result experience extreme sleepiness during the daytime hours and more frequent naps with a longer duration. Eventually, the sleep-wake time moves back into alignment with the social time for sleep and the individuals sleep well at night and have decreased daytime napping. The alignment between their endogenous circadian rhythms and the 24-hour day is temporary as they are continually drifting later and later each day.

This will be a multicenter, randomized withdrawal, double-masked, placebo-controlled, parallel study. The study has three phases: the tasimelteon run-in phase, the tau estimation phase, and the randomized withdrawal phase. Subjects who have participated in study VP-VEC-162-3201 that meet the entry criteria for this study will be eligible for the run-in phase The run-in phase comprises a screening visit where subject's initial eligibility will be evaluated. Subjects that meet the inclusion/exclusion criteria at screening will enter the run-in phase and will be dosed with 20 mg of tasimelteon daily for 6 weeks. The tau estimation phase (48 hour urine collection samples to evaluate response to tasimelteon) will follow the run-in phase and will last approximately 6 weeks long. The randomized withdrawal phase comprises approximately eight weeks of treatment with either placebo or tasimelteon 20 mg taken approximately 1 hour prior to their target bedtime in a double-masked fashion.

Being tested
tasimelteon, Placebo
Keywords
Blindness, Eye Diseases, Nap Disorders, Circadian Rhythm Disorders, Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders, Dyssomnias, Nervous System Diseases
Medical subject headings
Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhythm, Blindness, Eye Diseases, Chronobiology Disorders, Sleep Wake Disorders, Dyssomnias, Nervous System Diseases

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • tasimelteonDrug

    Also called VEC-162

    20 mg tasimelteon capsules, daily

  • PlaceboDrug

    Placebo capsules, daily

Study groups in NCT01430754
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
tasimelteonExperimental20 mg tasimelteon capsules
Receives: Drug: tasimelteon
PlaceboPlacebo comparatorPlacebo capsules
Receives: Drug: Placebo

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Maintenance of Entrainment (aMT6s) in Subjects With N24HSWD.

    Entrainment is a measure of synchronization of the master body clock to the 24-hour day. The circadian period (τ) was calculated using urinary aMT6s collected over four separate 48 hour periods, approximately 1 week apart, during the run-in and randomized phases of the trial. Maintenance of entrainment is defined as the proportion of subjects who become non-entrained to a 24 hour day after randomization to tasimelteon or placebo. Non-entrainment was defined as having a post-baseline τ value ≥ 24.1 or the lower bound of the 95% CI >24.0.

    Measured: Approximately 12 weeks

Secondary outcomes (5)
  1. Maintenance of Entrainment (Cortisol) in Subjects With N24HSWD

    Entrainment is a measure of synchronization of the master body clock to the 24-hour day. The circadian period (τ) was calculated using urinary cortisol collected over four separate 48 hour periods, approximately 1 week apart, during the run-in and randomized phases of the trial. Maintenance of entrainment is defined as the proportion of subjects who become non-entrained to a 24 hour day after randomization to tasimelteon or placebo. Non-entrainment was defined as having a post-baseline τ value ≥ 24.1 or the lower bound of the 95% CI >24.0.

    Measured: Approximately 12 weeks

  2. Change From Run-In in Subjective Nighttime Total Sleep Time in Lower Quartile of Days (LQ-nTST) During the Randomized Phase

    LQ-nTST measures the average nighttime sleep during the patient's worst 25% of nights (shortest total nighttime sleep) from run-in and randomized phase. The higher number indicates improvement.

    Measured: Approximately 12 weeks

  3. Change From Run-In in Total Daytime Sleep Duration in Lower Quartile of Days (UQ-dTSD) During the Randomized Phase

    UQ-dTSD measures the average daytime sleep during the patient's worst 25% of days (longest total daytime sleep) from run-in and randomized phase. Lower number indicates improvement.

    Measured: Approximately 12 weeks

  4. Change From Run-In in Midpoint of Sleep (MoST) During the Randomized Phase

    Midpoint of Sleep Timing (MoST) is the measurement of the average timing of sleep relative to bedtime. The average MoST value will trend to 0 as an individual's sleep becomes more fragmented. Improvement is defined as an increase in the average.

    Measured: Approximately 12 weeks

  5. Change From Run-In in Circadian Time to Relapse During the Randomized Phase

    Time to relapse is defined as a 45 minute or greater decrement in the weekly average of subjective nighttime total sleep time (nTST) compared to the Run-in Phase.

    Measured: Approximately 8 weeks

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted8 Sep 2011 (estimated)
  2. Study startSep 2011
  3. Primary completionDec 2012
  4. Study completionDec 2012

Resources

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 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
Quadruple blind
Who is masked
Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
20 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01430754
Sponsor's protocol ID
VP-VEC-162-3203
Status last verified
Oct 2014
First submitted
30 Aug 2011
Last updated
10 Oct 2014
Data monitoring committee
No

Publications

  • Lockley SW, Dressman MA, Licamele L, Xiao C, Fisher DM, Flynn-Evans EE, Hull JT, Torres R, Lavedan C, Polymeropoulos MH. Tasimelteon for non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder in totally blind people (SET and RESET): two multicentre, randomised, double-masked, placebo-controlled phase 3 trials. Lancet. 2015 Oct 31;386(10005):1754-64. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60031-9. Epub 2015 Aug 4.

    PubMed 26466871

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 3 study testing tasimelteon in people with Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder, run by Vanda Pharmaceuticals at 22 sites 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 4 inclusion and 21 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 10 Oct 2014. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 22 sites 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. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. 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 3 studies compare the treatment with the current standard treatment or a placebo in a large group, to confirm how well it works and watch for side effects.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 10 Oct 2014). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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?

Maintenance of Entrainment (aMT6s) in Subjects With N24HSWD. (time frame: Approximately 12 weeks). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT01430754, which also lists 1 linked publication.

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 10 Oct 2014.

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