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Clinical High-riskNCT04010864

A Study of Antipsychotics in Individuals at Clinical High-risk for Psychosis (the SHARP-2 Study)

An observational study of Clinical High-risk, run by Shanghai Mental Health Center at 1 site in China.

Unknown status

Status not confirmed. The sponsor has not verified this record for over two years, so it may be out of date.

Official record
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Trial summary

The current study will improve knowledge on the effectiveness and safety of the use of antipsychotics at the prodromal phase and on factors influencing the outcome, and will eventually facilitate optimisation of individualised interventions for psychosis prevention and treatment. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 14 to 45 years
Conditions the study is for
Clinical High-risk
What is being tested?
routine clinical treatment
How many people
600 participants
Where
1 siteChina
Study dates
29 Mar 2019to Dec 2022
How long will I take part?
3 Years
Phase
Observational
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 14 to 45 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult

Study population: Help-seeking first-visit participants will be consecutively recruited from the Shanghai Psychotherapy and Psychological Counselling Centre at the Shanghai Mental Health Centre. They will be screened for eligibility by their clinicians.

Who may be able to join

  • be aged 14 to 45-year-old
  • have had at least 6-years of primary education
  • be drug-naïve
  • be understanding the survey, be willing to enrol in the study and sign the informed consent
  • Through the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes/Scale of Prodromal Symptoms (SIPS/SOPS), the participants should meet the Criteria of Prodromal Syndrome. Participants should fulfil at least one of the prodromal syndrome criteria: (1) brief intermittent psychotic syndrome, (2) attenuated positive symptom syndrome, or (3) genetic risk and deterioration syndrome

Who cannot join

  • Through the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), Axis I mental disorders such as schizophrenia, affective disorders, and anxiety spectrum disorders will be excluded
  • Acute or chronic renal failure; liver cirrhosis or active liver diseases
  • Abnormal laboratory tests results judged by the researchers to be clinically significant and considered to affect the efficacy of the test drugs or the safety of the subjects
  • Severe or unstable physical diseases, including: neurological disorders (delirium, dementia, stroke, epilepsy, migraine, etc.), congestive heart failure, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, hypertension (including untreated or uncontrolled hypertension), malignant tumours, immune compromise, and blood glucose above 12 mmol/L
  • Alcohol abuse within 30 days, or alcohol or drug dependence within 6 months before the trial
  • Pregnant or lactating women, or women in childbearing age who are positive in urine human chorionic gonadotropin test, or men and women who do not take effective contraceptive measures or plan for pregnancy within 3 months after the initiation of the trial
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  • Stroke within the last month
  • Participating in any clinical trial within 30 days before the baseline
  • Other situations judged by the investigators not to be suitable for the clinical trial

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

TianHong Zhang, Doctor contact

13127577024

zhang_tianhong@126.com

China1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Shanghai Mental Health Center

    Shanghai

    TianHong Zhang, Doctor, 13127577024, zhang_tianhong@126.com

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: Real-world Effectiveness and Safety of Antipsychotics in Individuals at Clinical High-risk for Psychosis: Study Protocol for a Prospective Observational Study (SHARP-2)

The current study will improve knowledge on the effectiveness and safety of the use of antipsychotics at the prodromal phase and on factors influencing the outcome, and will eventually facilitate optimisation of individualised interventions for psychosis prevention and treatment.

Read the detailed description

Help-seeking first-visit participants will be consecutively recruited. Every participant meeting the inclusion criteria will be fully informed of the study and asked to sign the written informed consent before enrolment.

Two senior nurses that will conduct the initial screenings were employed to collect all diagnostic and medication information from medical records on every follow-up visit. The four psychiatrists are qualified and well-trained and will conduct the SIPS/SOPS interview at baseline and follow-up.

The investigators will systematically record medication information. A model will be established to correlate antipsychotics with clinical and functional outcomes and demonstrate whether antipsychotics are useful and safe for preventing CHR individuals from converting to psychosis.

Based on experience from the sampling process in the SHARP-1 project, the investigators will recruit 600 participants at CHR. Considering a dropout rate of 20%, 510 cases of CHR will be followed up. According to the sample size calculation formula in superiority clinical trials of new drugs, the sample size of 600 cases is adequate for the demonstration of the effectiveness and safety of antipsychotics in CHR subjects.

Being tested
routine clinical treatment

What participants receive

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

  • routine clinical treatmentOther

    Participants will be informed that this is not a treatment study and it involves naturalistic follow-up without any extra intervention. They will otherwise follow the routine clinical treatment procedure.

Study groups in NCT04010864
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
SHARP-2ShangHai At Risk for Psychosis-Phase 2
Receives: Other: routine clinical treatment

What is being measured

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

  1. Conversion to psychosis

    It will be determined using the criteria for the Presence of Psychotic Symptoms from SIPS. Specifically, the conversion will be defined by the presence of level 6 positive symptoms (the rating "6" refers to severe and psychotic symptoms) identified as either dangerous, disorganised, or occurring at least one hour a day on average, over four days a week for at least 16 hours.

    Measured: 4 weeks

  2. Poor function

    It will be determined by GAF score. Specifically, poor function outcome is defined as the GAF score of less than 60 at the follow-up point.

    Measured: 4 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 Jul 2019
  2. Study start29 Mar 2019
  3. Primary completionDec 2022 (estimated)
  4. Study completionDec 2022 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
600 participants (estimated)
Target duration
3 Years
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04010864
Sponsor's protocol ID
CRC2018ZD04
Status last verified
Oct 2020
First submitted
4 Jul 2019
Last updated
22 Oct 2020
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes

Publications

  • Fusar-Poli P, Borgwardt S, Bechdolf A, Addington J, Riecher-Rossler A, Schultze-Lutter F, Keshavan M, Wood S, Ruhrmann S, Seidman LJ, Valmaggia L, Cannon T, Velthorst E, De Haan L, Cornblatt B, Bonoldi I, Birchwood M, McGlashan T, Carpenter W, McGorry P, Klosterkotter J, McGuire P, Yung A. The psychosis high-risk state: a comprehensive state-of-the-art review. JAMA Psychiatry. 2013 Jan;70(1):107-20. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.269.

    PubMed 23165428
  • Nelson B, Yuen HP, Wood SJ, Lin A, Spiliotacopoulos D, Bruxner A, Broussard C, Simmons M, Foley DL, Brewer WJ, Francey SM, Amminger GP, Thompson A, McGorry PD, Yung AR. Long-term follow-up of a group at ultra high risk ("prodromal") for psychosis: the PACE 400 study. JAMA Psychiatry. 2013 Aug;70(8):793-802. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.1270.

    PubMed 23739772
  • Lindstrom E, Bingefors K. Patient compliance with drug therapy in schizophrenia. Economic and clinical issues. Pharmacoeconomics. 2000 Aug;18(2):106-24. doi: 10.2165/00019053-200018020-00002.

    PubMed 11067646
  • Crumlish N, Whitty P, Clarke M, Browne S, Kamali M, Gervin M, McTigue O, Kinsella A, Waddington JL, Larkin C, O'Callaghan E. Beyond the critical period: longitudinal study of 8-year outcome in first-episode non-affective psychosis. Br J Psychiatry. 2009 Jan;194(1):18-24. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.107.048942.

    PubMed 19118320
  • Zhang T, Xu L, Tang Y, Cui H, Wei Y, Wang J, Tang X, Li C, Wang J. Duration of untreated prodromal symptoms in a Chinese sample at a high risk for psychosis: demographic, clinical, and outcome. Psychol Med. 2018 Jun;48(8):1274-1281. doi: 10.1017/S0033291717002707. Epub 2017 Nov 27.

    PubMed 29173206
  • Zhang T, Xu L, Tang Y, Cui H, Tang X, Wei Y, Wang Y, Hu Q, Qian Z, Liu X, Li C, Wang J. Relationship between duration of untreated prodromal symptoms and symptomatic and functional recovery. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2019 Dec;269(8):871-877. doi: 10.1007/s00406-018-0917-z. Epub 2018 Jun 25.

    PubMed 29942980
  • Zhang T, Cui H, Wei Y, Tang Y, Xu L, Tang X, Zhu Y, Jiang L, Zhang B, Qian Z, Chow A, Liu X, Li C, Xiao Z, Wang J. Progressive decline of cognition during the conversion from prodrome to psychosis with a characteristic pattern of the theory of mind compensated by neurocognition. Schizophr Res. 2018 May;195:554-559. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2017.08.020. Epub 2017 Aug 18.

    PubMed 28823722
  • Zhang T, Cui H, Tang Y, Xu L, Li H, Wei Y, Liu X, Chow A, Li C, Jiang K, Xiao Z, Wang J. Correlation of social cognition and neurocognition on psychotic outcome: a naturalistic follow-up study of subjects with attenuated psychosis syndrome. Sci Rep. 2016 Oct 10;6:35017. doi: 10.1038/srep35017.

    PubMed 27721394
  • Collin G, Seidman LJ, Keshavan MS, Stone WS, Qi Z, Zhang T, Tang Y, Li H, Anteraper SA, Niznikiewicz MA, McCarley RW, Shenton ME, Wang J, Whitfield-Gabrieli S. Functional connectome organization predicts conversion to psychosis in clinical high-risk youth from the SHARP program. Mol Psychiatry. 2020 Oct;25(10):2431-2440. doi: 10.1038/s41380-018-0288-x. Epub 2018 Nov 8.

    PubMed 30410064
  • Shakory S, Watts JJ, Hafizi S, Da Silva T, Khan S, Kiang M, Bagby RM, Chavez S, Mizrahi R. Hippocampal glutamate metabolites and glial activation in clinical high risk and first episode psychosis. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2018 Oct;43(11):2249-2255. doi: 10.1038/s41386-018-0163-0. Epub 2018 Jul 28.

    PubMed 30087434
  • Rauchensteiner S, Kawohl W, Ozgurdal S, Littmann E, Gudlowski Y, Witthaus H, Heinz A, Juckel G. Test-performance after cognitive training in persons at risk mental state of schizophrenia and patients with schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res. 2011 Feb 28;185(3):334-9. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2009.09.003. Epub 2010 May 21.

    PubMed 20493540
  • Amminger GP, Schafer MR, Papageorgiou K, Klier CM, Cotton SM, Harrigan SM, Mackinnon A, McGorry PD, Berger GE. Long-chain omega-3 fatty acids for indicated prevention of psychotic disorders: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2010 Feb;67(2):146-54. doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.192.

    PubMed 20124114
  • McGorry PD, Nelson B, Markulev C, Yuen HP, Schafer MR, Mossaheb N, Schlogelhofer M, Smesny S, Hickie IB, Berger GE, Chen EY, de Haan L, Nieman DH, Nordentoft M, Riecher-Rossler A, Verma S, Thompson A, Yung AR, Amminger GP. Effect of omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Young People at Ultrahigh Risk for Psychotic Disorders: The NEURAPRO Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry. 2017 Jan 1;74(1):19-27. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.2902.

    PubMed 27893018
  • McGorry PD, Yung AR, Phillips LJ, Yuen HP, Francey S, Cosgrave EM, Germano D, Bravin J, McDonald T, Blair A, Adlard S, Jackson H. Randomized controlled trial of interventions designed to reduce the risk of progression to first-episode psychosis in a clinical sample with subthreshold symptoms. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002 Oct;59(10):921-8. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.59.10.921.

    PubMed 12365879
  • Zeng J, Raballo A, Gan R, Wu G, Wei Y, Xu L, Tang X, Hu Y, Tang Y, Chen T, Li C, Wang J, Zhang T. Antipsychotic Exposure in Clinical High Risk of Psychosis: Empirical Insights From a Large Cohort Study. J Clin Psychiatry. 2022 Mar 21;83(3):21m14092. doi: 10.4088/JCP.21m14092.

    PubMed 35324095

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Clinical High-risk, run by Shanghai Mental Health Center at 1 site in China.

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 9 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 22 Oct 2020. 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 China. 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.

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 TianHong Zhang, Doctor (13127577024, zhang_tianhong@126.com), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Conversion to psychosis (time frame: 4 weeks). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. 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 NCT04010864, which also lists 15 linked publications.

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 22 Oct 2020; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 7 Nov 2026.

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