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NCT Number: NCT00183443

Treatment of Mania Symptoms With Drug Therapy

This study will determine the effectiveness of three different drug therapies in treating the symptoms of mania.

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Key information

Conditions

Bipolar Disorder Bipolar and Related Disorders Mania Mental Disorders Mood Disorders Nervous System Diseases Neurobehavioral Manifestations Neurologic Manifestations Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Psychotic Disorders Schizophrenia Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders Signs and Symptoms

Age range

18 year–65 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 3

Primary location

VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Palo Alto, California, 94304, United States

About this study

Mania is a serious condition characterized by extreme excitement, mental and physical hyperactivity, insomnia, and disconnected thoughts. Symptoms of mania are common in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. When associated with these conditions, mania reaches psychotic proportions and often includes hallucinations, paranoia, and feelings of omnipotence. Such symptoms may put individuals with mania and those around them at risk for physical harm. Drug therapies that can safely and effectively treat symptoms of mania are needed. This study will compare three drug combinations in their ability to treat symptoms of mania in people with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder.

This study will comprise a 12-week acute phase and a 14-week continuation phase. While the acute phase is the primary component of this study, the continuation phase will provide extended data on the characteristics and course of responders to the initial treatment combinations. Results from the continuation phase will be reported elsewhere. In the acute phase, participants will be randomly assigned to receive one of three treatments: divalproex-extended release (DV-ER) and lithium, DV-ER and quetiapine, or DV-ER and placebo. Participants will receive their intervention for 12 weeks. Participants will have weekly study visits for the first 4 weeks of the acute phase; biweekly study visits will occur for the following 8 weeks. After the acute phase, participants who have not responded to their drug regimen will complete their participation in the study.

Participants whose symptoms of mania have decreased will be offered enrollment in the 14-week continuation phase, during which time participants will continue the drug regimen they began in the acute phase. Participants will have biweekly study visits in the continuation phase. During each study visit in both phases, participants will be interviewed about their mania symptoms. Mania, depression, quality of life, and overall functioning scales will assess participants at study entry, at the end of the acute phase, and at the end of the continuation phase. Participants over 50 years of age will have an electrocardiogram (EKG) at study entry to determine cardiac function.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Diagnosis of bipolar I disorder or schizophrenia
  • Experiencing symptoms of mania at study entry
  • Able to speak and understand English
  • Willing and able to comply with all study requirements

Exclusion criteria

  • History of partial response or nonresponse to any of the drugs or drug combinations given in this study
  • History of intolerance to DVP, DVP-ER, lithium, or quetiapine
  • Disorders that would contraindicate the use of DV, DV-ER, lithium, or quetiapine
  • Use of antidepressants within 1 month prior to study entry
  • Use of fluoxetine within 3 months prior to study entry
  • Impaired cardiac function, as evidenced by abnormal EKG in participants 50 or over
  • Unstable medical illness within 2 months prior to study entry
  • At risk for suicide
  • Substance abuse or dependence within 1 month prior to study entry
  • Pregnancy, breastfeeding, or plans to become pregnant during the study

Treatment and study plan

Divalproex-extended release (DVP-ER)

Drug

Divalproex ER will be given in 250 mg or 500 mg tablets. Dosing is once a day, every day, for the duration of study participation, either 12 or 26 weeks.

Other names: depakote ER

Lithium

Drug

Extended release lithium will be provided in 300 mg capsules. Participants will be dosed to a therapeutic blood level of lithium from 0.8 to 1.2 mcg/L.

Other names: Lithobid

Quetiapine

Drug

Quetiapine will be dosed to efficacy, provided in 50 mg, 100 mg, 200 mg, or 300 mg pills.

Other names: Seroquel

Primary outcomes

  1. Symptoms of Mania, as Measured by Young Mania Rating Scale

    Time frame: Week 12

    Symptoms of mania, as measured by Young Mania Rating Scale. The scale is eleven-item multiple choice diagnostic questionnaire (range 0-60), which psychiatrists use to measure the severity of manic episodes in children and young adults. Typically, 20 is the minimum score required for mania. Higher scores represent increased severity of mania symptoms.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D,17)

    Time frame: Week 12

    The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression is a multiple item questionnaire used to provide an indication of depression, and as a guide to evaluate recovery. The questionnaire is designed for adults and is used to rate the severity of their depression by probing mood, feelings of guilt, suicide ideation, insomnia, agitation or retardation, anxiety, weight loss, and somatic symptoms. The 17-item Likert-type scale (range 0-50) includes eight questions with a 5-point scale (ranging from 0=not present to 4=severe) and nine items scored from 0 to 2. Higher scores indicate increased depression severity. The total sum of these 17 answers is used to arrive at the final score: normal (0-7), mild (8-13), moderate (14-18), severe (19-22), or very severe (>=23).

  2. Clinical Global Impression Scale for Bipolar Disorder (CGI-BD)

    Time frame: Week 12

    The Clinical Global Impression (CGI) rating scale was modified by Spearing and colleagues (1997) for use in bipolar disorder. CGI scales are measures of symptom severity, treatment response and the efficacy of treatments in treatment studies of patients with mental disorders. The revised CGI-Bipolar Version (CGI-BP) is effective in rating severity of manic and depressive episodes and the degree of change from the immediately preceding phase and from the worst phase of illness. The CGI-BP is rated on a 7-point scale, with the severity of illness scale using a range of responses from 1 (normal, not ill) to 7 (very severely ill). Each component of the CGI is rated separately; the instrument does not yield a global score. Only severity of illness scores are reported. Increased scores represent increased illness severity

  3. Global Assessment of Functioning

    Time frame: Week 12

    The Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) is a numeric scale used by mental health clinicians and physicians to rate subjectively the social, occupational, and psychological functioning of an individual, e.g., how well one is meeting various problems-in-living. Scores range from 100 (extremely high functioning) to 1 (severely impaired).

  4. Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS)

    Time frame: Week 12

    The Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS) provides a rating of global social and occupational function independent of clinical symptoms. SOFAS is provided in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) as an Axis V measure. The SOFAS is a global rating of current functioning, which is scored positively on a scale from 0 to 100. Higher scores represent higher levels of functioning. This instrument is a one-item rating of consumer functioning.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research

Other

Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Registry information

Official study title

Divalproex Extended Release and Placebo, Lithium, or Quetiapine for Mania

Important dates

Study start
2005
Primary completion
2010
Study completion
2010
First posted
Sep 16, 2005
Registry last updated
Jul 17, 2018

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