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NCT Number: NCT01901185

Study to Evaluate the Ability of Subjects With Rheumatoid Arthritis or Psoriatic Arthritis to Effectively Use a Reusable Autoinjector to Self-inject Etanercept

The purpose of this study is to assess the ability of people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or psoriatic arthritis (PsA) to use an experimental autoinjector to self inject etanercept (Enbrel®).

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 3

Primary location

Research Site, Huntsville, Alabama, United States

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About this study

Study participants need to have been self-administering etanercept for greater than or equal to 6 months prior to screening. You will be in this study for about 9 weeks. This includes a 4-week screening period and a 5-week treatment period.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Subject has diagnosis of RA or PsA and indicated for treatment with etanercept per the current label, based on history.
  • Subject is willing to self-inject per investigator judgement at screening.
  • Subject has no known history of tuberculosis.

Exclusion criteria

  • Latex allergy.
  • Subject has any active infection (including chronic or localized infections) for which anti-infectives were indicated within 4 weeks prior to first study dose of etanercept.
  • Subject had prosthetic joint infection within 5 years of screening or native joint infection within 1 year of screening.
  • Other criteria may apply.

Treatment and study plan

Etanercept / Autoinjector A

Drug

Autoinjector A, a hand-held, reusable electromechanical device, and a single-use, disposable cassette preassembled with an etanercept 50-mg liquid prefilled syringe (PFS).

Other names: Enbrel®

Primary outcomes

  1. Percentage of Successful Self-injections to Total Non-missed Injections

    Time frame: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4 and Week 5

    The successful self-injection of etanercept using the Autoinjector A, as evaluated by the percentage of successful injections of the total nonmissed injections administered by participants in the non-health care setting during Weeks 1 to 5. Successful self-injection was assessed by Question 1 in the Participant Self-injection Questionnaire, which was completed by each participant after each self-injection. Successful injection is defined as the Autoinjector A signaling a complete injection and no liquid medication pooled on your skin.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Percentage of Autoinjector A System Failures

    Time frame: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4 and Week 5

    The autoinjector A and prefilled syringe (PFS)/cassettes used by the participants were examined at the end of the study by device engineers. System failure was defined as the failure of the Autoinjector A or PFS/cassette to meet the device design requirements during Weeks 1 to 5. The percentage of system failures is reported out of the total number of injection attempts during the study, including multiple attempts per week.

  2. Percentage of Errors in Each Step of the Self-injection Process

    Time frame: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4 and Week 5

    For all the nonmissed injections recorded on the Participant Self-injection Questionnaire, the percentage of the following steps in the self-injection process that were not successfully completed out of the total nonmissed injections during Weeks 1 to 5 are reported. If multiple attempts were recorded, all the recorded attempts were considered, regardless whether it was a successful attempt or not. • Error Icon lit up (Question 2) • Could not load cassette successfully (Question 3) • Could not remove purple cassette cap successfully (Question 4) • Could not press start button to begin self-injection successfully (Question 5).

Other outcomes

  1. Number of Participants With Adverse Events, Serious Adverse Events and Adverse Device Events

    Time frame: 9 weeks

    An adverse event (AE) is defined as any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical trial participant that does not necessarily have a causal relationship with study treatment or the device under study. The definition includes worsening of a pre-existing medical condition. A serious adverse event is defined as an AE that meets at least 1 of the following serious criteria: • fatal • life threatening • requires or prolongs in-patient hospitalization • results in persistent or significant disability/incapacity • congenital anomaly/birth defect • other medically important serious event. An adverse device effect is any adverse event related to the use of a medical device. Adverse device effects include AEs resulting from insufficient or inadequate instructions for use, malfunction of the device, or from use errors (including errors resulting from normal use, reasonably forseeable misuse or from intentional misuse) of the device.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Amgen

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

A Single-arm, Multicenter Study to Evaluate the Ability of Subjects With Rheumatoid Arthritis or Psoriatic Arthritis to Effectively Use a Reusable Electromechanical Autoinjector to Self-inject Etanercept

Important dates

Study start
2013
Primary completion
2013
Study completion
2013
First posted
Jul 17, 2013
Registry last updated
Sep 4, 2018

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