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Acute MigraineNCT04089761

Safety and Efficacy of Nerivio™ for the Acute Treatment of Migraine in Adolescents

A study testing Nerivio in people with Acute Migraine, run by Theranica at 12 sites in United States.

Terminated

Stopped early. The study ended before it was planned to and will not resume.

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Trial summary

Nerivio™ is an FDA-authorized remote electrical neuromodulation (REN) device for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura in patients 18 years old or above who do not have chronic migraine. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 12 to 17 years
Conditions the study is for
Acute Migraine
What is being tested?
Nerivio
Type of treatment
Medical device
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
60 participants
Where
12 sitesUnited States
Study dates
1 Oct 2019to 24 May 2020
Phase
Interventional
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 12 to 17 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child

Who may be able to join

  • 1. Participants age 12-17 years old at the time of informed consent, inclusive. 2. Participants have at least a 6-month history of headaches that meet the ICHD-3 diagnostic criteria for migraine with or without aura 3. History of at least 3 migraine attacks per month for each of the 2 months preceding study enrolment 4. Typical headache duration of at least 3 hours (when untreated or unsuccessfully treatment) 5. Stable migraine preventive medications during the 2 months prior to enrollment (no change in usage or dosage).
  • 6. Participants have personal access to a smartphone (24/7) 7. Participants must be able and willing to comply with the protocol 8. Parents/Guardians must be able and willing to provide written informed consent 9. Participants must be able and willing to provide informed assent

Who cannot join

  • Participants with an implanted electrical and/or neurostimulator device (e.g. cardiac pacemaker, cochlear implant).
  • Participants with congestive heart failure (CHF), severe cardiac or cerebrovascular disease.
  • Participants with epilepsy.
  • Medical use of cannabis or recreational use one month prior to enrollment.
  • Participants who have undergone nerve block (occipital or other) in the head or neck within the last 2 weeks
  • Treatment with onabotulinum toxin A (Botox) to the head and/or neck for 3 months before enrollment and/or during the study
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  • Any history of anti-CGRP antibody treatment
  • Current participation in any other clinical study that includes treatment
  • Participants without basic cognitive and motor skills required for operating a smartphone.
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding females
  • Pure menstrual migraine
  • Participants who received parenteral treatments for migraine within the previous 2 weeks.
  • Participants with other significant pain, medical or psychological problems that in the opinion of the investigator may confound the study assessments
  • Participants who have previous experience with the device
  • Participants with arm circumference below 7.9 inches (20 cm)

Trial locations and contacts

12 sites in 1 country.

12 sites in 1 country

United States12 sites
  • DENT neurology clinic

    Amherst, New York, 14226980

  • PANDA neurology

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30328

  • Children's Hospital Colorado

    Aurora, Colorado, 80045

  • Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

    Cincinnati, Ohio, 45229

  • Clinical Trials Solutions

    Hialeah, Florida, 33012

  • Mercury Clinical Research

    Houston, Texas, 77036

  • Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine

    Houston, Texas, 77094

  • Children Mercy Kansas City

    Kansas City, Missouri, 64108

  • Nicklaus children hospital

    Miami, Florida, 33155

  • Children Hospital New Orleans

    New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118

  • NYU Langone-Health

    New York, New York, 10017

  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19178

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About this study

Official title: A Single Arm, Open Label, Multicenter Study of the Safety and Efficacy of Nerivio™ for the Acute Treatment of Migraine in Adolescents

Nerivio™ is an FDA-authorized remote electrical neuromodulation (REN) device for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura in patients 18 years old or above who do not have chronic migraine. The device delivers transcutaneous electrical stimulation to the upper arm to induce conditioned pain modulation (CPM) that activates a descending endogenous analgesic mechanism.

This is a prospective, single arm, open label, multicenter trial of the safety and efficacy of Nerivio™ for the acute treatment of migraine in adolescents

The study will be conducted in three phases:

Phase I - Run-in:

Phase II - Treatment phase:

Phase III (optional) - Free-use

Read the detailed description

This open label study includes 3 phases and up to 4 visits. All visits will be conducted in the presence of a parent/guardian.

First visit - enrollment: The first visit will include screening, enrollment and training on the application in diary mode. The screening process will include an eligibility assessment and a urine pregnancy test. Following successful screening, enrollment interview and signing an informed consent by the parent/guardian and an informed assent by the participant. The participants will be trained to use the electronic diary application, installed on their own smartphones. The site personnel will be required to document the training session in the CRF. During this visit, participants will complete baseline questionnaires that included information on the frequency and severity of their migraine attacks, typical associated symptoms, use of preventive and acute treatments, and the effect that their migraine attacks have on their daily routine and quality of life.

Phase 1 - run-in phase: After the enrollment visit, participants will undergo a 4-week migraine diary phase aimed to collect baseline migraine characteristics and further assess eligibility. Participants will be asked to report in the application each migraine attack. These reports will be transferred by the application to the electronic data collection (EDC) system, where they will be collected and registered. Participants who did not have at least 3 migraine attacks will be excluded from the study. Eligibility will also be determined based on the compliance of participants to report the attacks within one hour from attack onset and report the pain level at 2 hours post-treatment in at least 66.7% of the reported attacks.

Second visit - Device training visit: Eligible participants who meet the run-in requirements will receive the Nerivio™ device. The device will be registered and connected by Bluetooth to their smartphone. During this visit, participants and their parent/guardian will be trained to use the device, including finding the optimal individual stimulation intensity level (perceptible but not painful). The site will also carefully review with the patient and parent/caregiver how to identify a qualifying migraine attack (see below) and provide detailed instructions on study procedures.

The individual intensity level identified during this visit will be recorded, and the participants will be asked to treat their migraine headaches with the device using the identified intensity. If the research staff recognizes that the participant cannot tolerate the feeling of the electrical stimulation, the participant may be withdrawn from the study.

Phase 2 -Treatment phase: Participants will be instructed to use the device for the treatment of 4 qualifying migraine attacks (see below) as soon as possible and always within 60 minutes of onset during a period of up to 8 weeks. Participants will be instructed to use the device with the intensity level identified during the device training visit (with a range of ±5 units) and make sure the stimulation is perceptible but not painful. Participants will be instructed to avoid taking rescue medications within 2 hours post-treatment. If medications are used, participants will be instructed to record in the app when and which medication was taken. The participants will use the app to record pain intensity levels (none, mild, moderate, or severe) at baseline, 2- and 24-hours post-treatment, and to record the presence/absence of associated migraine symptoms (nausea, photophobia, phonophobia) at baseline and 2 hours post-treatment. To assess functional disability, participants will also record at baseline, 2- and 24-hours post-treatment their response to the following question in their diary: "How do you rate your ability to do school-work or perform your usual activities?" using a 4-point scale ('as usual', 'some ability', 'a little ability', 'no ability at all'). At the beginning of each treatment, participants will also be asked to report the time elapsed from attack onset. Adverse events will be reported throughout this phase of the study.

Participants who do not achieve satisfactory relief at 2 hours post-treatment may treat again with the Nerivio™ device or may treat with usual care at that time or any time thereafter if the headache does not resolve. Participants will also be able to treat headache recurrence with the device. Attacks that are not treated with the device may be treated with usual care.

The first reported treatment will be considered a "training" treatment, aimed to verify that the participants use the device properly, and will only be included in the safety analysis. The efficacy evaluation will be performed on the first treatment of a qualifying attack (see below) following the training treatment (hereby termed "test treatment").

Third visit - Termination of the treatment phase and free-use phase initiation: Following the 8-week period of the treatment phase, participants will return to the clinic to return the device and fill questionnaires assessing satisfaction and user experience. All participants who complete the treatment phase will be offered to participate in an additional 8-week phase in which the device can be incorporate into usual care.

Phase 3 - Free-use phase: Participants will continue in an 8-week phase in which they will be able to use the device according to their preferences for the treatment of their migraine attacks.

Fourth (final) visit - End of study: Participants will return to the clinic following the end of the 8-week free-use phase, at which time they will return the device.

Conditions
Acute Migraine
Being tested
Nerivio
Keywords
Migraine treatment, Adolescence

What participants receive

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

  • NerivioDevice

    Nerivio™ is an FDA-authorized remote electrical neuromodulation (REN) device for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura in patients 18 years old or above who do not have chronic migraine. The device delivers transcutaneous electrical stimulation to the upper arm to induce conditioned pain modulation (CPM) that activates a descending endogenous analgesic mechanism. The treatment is self-administered and controlled by a smartphone application.

Study groups in NCT04089761
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Active DeviceExperimentalTreatment of acute migraine with an active form of Nerivio device
Receives: Device: Nerivio

What is being measured

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

  1. Safety of Nerivio Device

    Number of Participants with Device-Related Adverse Events

    Measured: 12 weeks

Secondary outcomes (5)
  1. Pain Relief at 2 Hours Post Treatment

    The percentage of subjects reporting, for the test treatment, pain relief at 2 hours post-treatment without the use of rescue medication. Pain relief is defined as an improvement from severe or moderate pain to mild or no pain, or from mild pain to no pain. Pain level was reported using a 4-point Likert scale (0 -No pain, 1 - Mild pain, 2 - Moderate pain, 3- Severe pain)

    Measured: 2 hours post treatment

  2. Pain-free at 2 Hours Post Treatment

    The percentage of subjects reporting, for the test treatment, no pain at 2 hours post-treatment without the use of rescue medication. Pain-free is defined as improvement from mild, moderate, or severe pain to no pain. Pain level was reported using a 4-point Likert scale (0 - No pain, 1 - Mild pain, 2 - Moderate pain, 3- Severe pain)

    Measured: 2 hours post treatment

  3. Disappearance of Nausea at 2 Hours Post-treatment

    The percentage of subjects presented nausea at the baseline (T=0 hours) and reported disappearance of nausea at 2 hours post-treatment of the test treatment

    Measured: 2 hours post treatment

  4. Disappearance of Photophobia at 2 Hours Post Treatment

    The percentage of subjects presented photophobia at baseline (T=0 hours) and reported disappearance of photophobia at 2 hours post-treatment of the test treatment

    Measured: 2 hors post treatment

  5. Disappearance of Phonophobia at 2 Hours Post Treatment

    The percentage of subjects presented phonophobia at baseline (T=0 hours) and reported disappearance of phonophobia at 2 hours post-treatment of the test treatment

    Measured: 2 hours post treatment

Timeline

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

  1. First posted13 Sep 2019
  2. Study start1 Oct 2019
  3. Primary completion10 May 2020
  4. Study completion24 May 2020

Why it stopped: Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA on March 2020, all study sites stopped enrolling patients to the study

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 N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Model description
single arm, open-label, multicenter study
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
60 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04089761
Sponsor's protocol ID
TCH004
Status last verified
Jun 2020
First submitted
12 Sep 2019
Last updated
25 Feb 2021
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
Yes
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Hershey AD, Irwin S, Rabany L, Gruper Y, Ironi A, Harris D, Sharon R, McVige J. Comparison of Remote Electrical Neuromodulation and Standard-Care Medications for Acute Treatment of Migraine in Adolescents: A Post Hoc Analysis. Pain Med. 2022 Apr 8;23(4):815-820. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnab197.

    PubMed 34185084

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Nerivio in people with Acute Migraine, run by Theranica at 12 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 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: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 25 Feb 2021. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 12 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. 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?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 25 Feb 2021). 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?

Safety of Nerivio Device (time frame: 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 NCT04089761, 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 25 Feb 2021.

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