Major Depressive DisorderPhase 2/3NCT02048423
An Open Prospective Trial of IV Ketamine in Suicidal Adolescents
A Phase 2/3 study testing Ketamine in people with Major Depressive Disorder, run by Nationwide Children's Hospital at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
1. Investigate the safety and effectiveness of a single dose of IV Ketamine for adolescents with suicidal ideation and depression. It is hypothesize that Ketamine will be well tolerated and significantly reduce depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation. 2. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 12 to 17 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Major Depressive Disorder
- What is being tested?
- Ketamine
- Type of treatment
- Injection or infusion
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 10 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Jun 2013to Jun 2015
- Phase
- Phase 2/3
- 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 12 to 17 years
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Child
Who may be able to join
- Subjects age 12 years 0 months to 17 years, 11 months old
- Voluntary admission for a suicide attempt requiring medical intervention in the previous 24-48 hours (Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders Suicide Behavior Score > 3).
- Meets criteria for major depression, single- or recurrent episode, non-psychotic or Bipolar I, current episode depressed, with a baseline Inventory for depression score of > 16.
- The patient and legal guardian must understand the nature of the study and be able to comply with protocol requirements. The legal guardian must give written informed consent and the youth, written assent.
- English is spoken as the primary language in the home.
Who cannot join
- Any serious, unstable medical illness or clinically significant abnormal laboratory assessments that would adversely impact the scientific interpretability or unduly increase the risks of the protocol.
- Admitted to Nationwide Children's Hospital involuntarily.
- Unable to assent because of severe mental retardation or incapacitating psychosis.
- Other medications: See Table 1. The list in Table 1 is not exhaustive. The Principal Investigator and the Co-Investigator will review all concomitant medicines and any medicine that could interfere with the trial will be considered exclusionary. Subjects with bipolar disorder will be allowed to continue their mood stabilizers and or antipsychotic agents at the discretion of the investigator. Stimulants use is acceptable, though the child must be on a stable dose for the past 3 months and the dose must not be changed through the trial. A stable dose is defined as no more that 25% change in the total daily dose of a stimulant.
- General medical conditions: children with major medical conditions that would interfere with involvement in the study or the study medication will not be enrolled.
- Exclusionary Psychiatric Conditions: Autism, substance dependence, psychosis or psychotic major depression.
- History of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, which results in a clinically significant impact on clinical presentation, potentially driving some of the symptoms of major depressive disorder.
- Receipt of an investigational drug within 30 days prior to study entry.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
Melinda Helton, Pharm contact
United States1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, Ohio, 43205
Melinda Helton, RN, 614-722-2607
About this study
- Investigate the safety and effectiveness of a single dose of IV Ketamine for adolescents with suicidal ideation and depression. It is hypothesize that Ketamine will be well tolerated and significantly reduce depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation.
- Explore whether decision making as measured by the Iowa Gambling Task changes before and after Ketamine infusion. It is hypothesize that IV Ketamine infusion will significantly improve the decision making ability a measured by the Iowa Gambling Task in adolescents that are suicidal.
Read the detailed description
This is an open prospective study of a single, low dose (0.5 mg/kg) intravenous (IV) Ketamine in 10 adolescent subjects admitted to Nationwide Childrens Hospital following a serious suicide attempt and who meet criteria for major depression or bipolar disorder I, current episode depressed. Subjects will be recruited via the psychiatry consult service, evaluated on the floor and if eligible and consent is obtained, transferred to the PACU for IV Ketamine infusion. Following infusion and when PACU discharge criteria are met, subjects will be transferred back to their floor for medical and psychiatric monitoring until they can be transferred to an inpatient psychiatric unit for additional care. Subjects will be transferred to an inpatient psychiatric unit for continued psychiatric care as part of their routine psychiatric care via the consult team. The research team will follow-up by telephone one week and four weeks after Ketamine injection to collect additional information about the patient's overall course and response.
- Conditions
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Being tested
- Ketamine
- Keywords
- suicidal
- 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.
KetamineDrug
Also called Ketaset, Ketalean, Rogarsetic
IV Ketamine, 0.5 mg/kg X 15 mins. in PACU
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Ketamine | Experimental | Drug Receives: Drug: Ketamine |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Change in Quick Inventory of Depression Clinician (QIDS-C) total scores from baseline to endpoint and Clinical Global Improvement Score.
Measured: 2 days
Secondary outcomes (1)
Clinical Global Assessment Scale
Measured: 2 days
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted29 Jan 2014 (estimated)
- Study startJun 2013
- Primary completionJun 2015 (estimated)
- Study completionJun 2015 (estimated)
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 Nationwide Children's HospitalThe 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 2/3
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 10 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Robert A Kowatch, MD, PhD, Principal investigator, OSU Medical Center/Nationwide Childrens Hospital
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02048423
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- IRB12-00445
- Status last verified
- Jan 2014
- First submitted
- 2 Aug 2013
- Last updated
- 29 Jan 2014
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 29 Jan 2014. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- An Open Prospective Trial of IV Ketamine in Suicidal Adolescents
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02048423
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- IRB12-00445
- Conditions
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Keywords
- suicidal
- Phase
- Phase 2/3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 10 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Nationwide Children's HospitalUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- Jun 2013
- Primary completion
- Jun 2015 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Jun 2015 (estimated)
- First posted
- 29 Jan 2014 (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.
- Investigate the safety and effectiveness of a single dose of IV Ketamine for adolescents with suicidal ideation and depression. It is hypothesize that Ketamine will be well tolerated and significantly reduce depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation.
- Explore whether decision making as measured by the Iowa Gambling Task changes before and after Ketamine infusion. It is hypothesize that IV Ketamine infusion will significantly improve the decision making ability a measured by the Iowa Gambling Task in adolescents that are suicidal.
Detailed description
This is an open prospective study of a single, low dose (0.5 mg/kg) intravenous (IV) Ketamine in 10 adolescent subjects admitted to Nationwide Childrens Hospital following a serious suicide attempt and who meet criteria for major depression or bipolar disorder I, current episode depressed. Subjects will be recruited via the psychiatry consult service, evaluated on the floor and if eligible and consent is obtained, transferred to the PACU for IV Ketamine infusion. Following infusion and when PACU discharge criteria are met, subjects will be transferred back to their floor for medical and psychiatric monitoring until they can be transferred to an inpatient psychiatric unit for additional care. Subjects will be transferred to an inpatient psychiatric unit for continued psychiatric care as part of their routine psychiatric care via the consult team. The research team will follow-up by telephone one week and four weeks after Ketamine injection to collect additional information about the patient's overall course and response.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 1
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Ketamine | Experimental | Drug: KetamineDrug |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 12 to 17 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Child
Key inclusion criteria (5 listed)
- Subjects age 12 years 0 months to 17 years, 11 months old
- Voluntary admission for a suicide attempt requiring medical intervention in the previous 24-48 hours (Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders Suicide Behavior Score > 3).
- Meets criteria for major depression, single- or recurrent episode, non-psychotic or Bipolar I, current episode depressed, with a baseline Inventory for depression score of > 16.
- The patient and legal guardian must understand the nature of the study and be able to comply with protocol requirements. The legal guardian must give written informed consent and the youth, written assent.
- English is spoken as the primary language in the home.
Key exclusion criteria (8 listed)
- Any serious, unstable medical illness or clinically significant abnormal laboratory assessments that would adversely impact the scientific interpretability or unduly increase the risks of the protocol.
- Admitted to Nationwide Children's Hospital involuntarily.
- Unable to assent because of severe mental retardation or incapacitating psychosis.
- Other medications: See Table 1. The list in Table 1 is not exhaustive. The Principal Investigator and the Co-Investigator will review all concomitant medicines and any medicine that could interfere with the trial will be considered exclusionary. Subjects with bipolar disorder will be allowed to continue their mood stabilizers and or antipsychotic agents at the discretion of the investigator. Stimulants use is acceptable, though the child must be on a stable dose for the past 3 months and the dose must not be changed through the trial. A stable dose is defined as no more that 25% change in the total daily dose of a stimulant.
- General medical conditions: children with major medical conditions that would interfere with involvement in the study or the study medication will not be enrolled.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| KetamineAlso: Ketaset, Ketalean, RogarseticIV Ketamine, 0.5 mg/kg X 15 mins. in PACU | Drug | Ketamine |
Primary outcome
Change in Quick Inventory of Depression Clinician (QIDS-C) total scores from baseline to endpoint and Clinical Global Improvement Score.
Time frame: 2 days
1 secondary outcome
Clinical Global Assessment Scale
Time frame: 2 days
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 29 Jan 2014.
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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.
Melinda Helton, Pharm contact
Robert A Kowatch, MD, PhD principal investigator
OSU Medical Center/Nationwide Childrens Hospital
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A Phase 2/3 study testing Ketamine in people with Major Depressive Disorder, run by Nationwide Children's Hospital 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 5 inclusion and 8 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: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 29 Jan 2014. 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 combined phase mean?
Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.
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?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Robert A Kowatch, MD, PhD (614-355-2872, robert.kowatch@nationwidechildrens.org), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Change in Quick Inventory of Depression Clinician (QIDS-C) total scores from baseline to endpoint and Clinical Global Improvement Score. (time frame: 2 days). 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 29 Jan 2014.