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Registration number
NCT03859973
Ethics application status
Date submitted
25/02/2019
Date registered
1/03/2019
Date last updated
18/11/2023

Titles & IDs
Public title
This Study Tests Whether BI 425809 Together With Brain Training Using a Computer Improves Mental Functioning in Patients With Schizophrenia
Scientific title
A Phase II Randomized, Double-blinded, Placebo-controlled Parallel Group Trial to Examine the Efficacy and Safety of BI 425809 Once Daily With Adjunctive Computerized Cognitive Training Over 12 Week Treatment Period in Patients With Schizophrenia
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2018-002740-82
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1346-0038
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Schizophrenia 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Mental Health 0 0 0 0
Schizophrenia

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Drugs - BI 425809
Treatment: Drugs - Placebo

Experimental: BI 425809 10 mg + Computerized Cognitive Training -

Placebo comparator: Placebo + Computerized Cognitive Training -


Treatment: Drugs: BI 425809
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Treatment: Drugs: Placebo
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Treatment: Drugs
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
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Change From Baseline in Neurocognitive Function as Measured by the Neurocognitive Composite Score of the Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (MATRICS) Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) After 12 Weeks of Treatment
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At screening (28 days prior to first drug drug administration), at baseline and at Weeks 6 and 12 after first drug administration.
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Change From Baseline in Cognitive Function as Measured by the Overall MCCB Composite T Score (Including Social Cognition) After 12 Weeks of Treatment
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At screening (28 days prior to first drug drug administration), at baseline and at Weeks 6 and 12 after first drug administration.
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Change From Baseline in the Effect of Cognitive Deficit on Day-to-day Functioning as Measured by SCoRS Total Score After 12 Weeks of Treatment
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At baseline and at 12 weeks after first drug administration.
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Change From Baseline in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) Total Score After 12 Weeks of Treatment
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At baseline and at Weeks 6 and 12 after first drug administration.
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Percentage of Patients With Any Adverse Event (AE) and With Serious Adverse Events (SAEs)
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From first dose of study drug administration until four weeks after the last dose of study drug administration, up to 16 weeks.

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
* Signed and dated written informed consent in accordance with ICH Harmonized Tripartite Guideline for Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP) and local legislation prior to admission to the trial.
* Male or female patients who are 18-50 years (inclusive) of age at time of consent.
* Established schizophrenia (as per DSM-5) with the following clinical features:

* Outpatient, with no hospitalization for worsening of schizophrenia within 3 months prior to randomization
* Psychiatrically stable without symptom exacerbation within 3 months prior to randomization
* PANSS score = 5 on positive items P1, P3-P7 and = 4 on positive item P2 at Visit 1, and confirmed at Visit 2
* Patients must be on stable antipsychotic treatment; also, current antipsychotic medications and concomitant anticholinergics, antiepileptics, lithium and allowed antidepressants must meet the criteria below:

* Patients must take 1 and may take up to 2 antipsychotics (typical and/or atypical), except for clozapine
* Patients must be stable on current antipsychotics, anticholinergics, antiepileptics, lithium and allowed antidepressants for at least 3 months prior to randomization and be on current dose for at least 30 days prior to randomization o Patients on Long-Acting Injectable (LAI) antipsychotics should be on the same medication and dose for at least 3 months prior to randomization
* Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP)2 must be ready and able to use highly effective methods of birth control per Non-Clinical Safety Studies for the Conduct of Human Clinical Trials and Marketing Authorization for Pharmaceuticals (ICH M3 (R2)) that result in a low failure rate of less than 1% per year when used consistently and correctly. A list of contraception methods meeting these criteria is provided in Section 4.2.2.3. Such methods should be used throughout the trial, and for a period of at least 35 days after last trial drug intake, and the patient must agree to periodic pregnancy testing during participation in the trial.
* Patients must demonstrate their ability to properly use the CCT device and program, as well as be compliant with CCT run-in (defined as completing at least 2 hours per week for two weeks, totalling 4 hours CCT, during the screening period)3.
* Patients must be able to comply with all protocol procedures, in the investigator's opinion.
* Patients must have a study partner who will preferably be consistent throughout the study. It is recommended that the study partner should interact (in-person or telephone) with the subject at least 2 times a week.
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
50 Years
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
* Patients who have a categorical diagnosis of another current major psychiatric disorder on the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I.).
* Diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) that may impact the assessment of the cognitive tests as per investigator's opinion. A movement disorder due to antipsychotic treatment not currently controlled with anti- EPS treatment or another movement disorder (e.g. Parkinson´s disease).
* Patients with a history of participating in any formal cognitive remediation program for 10 or more training sessions.
* Patients who were treated with any of the following medications within the last 6 months prior to randomization:

* Bitopertin, BI 409306, encenicline or other investigational drug testing effects on cognition in schizophrenia
* Clozapine (atypical antipsychotic medication)
* Sarcosine, cycloserine, serine and glycine
* Stimulants (e.g. methylphenidate, dextroamphetamine, modafinil)
* Tricyclic antidepressants
* Patients receiving any other investigational drug (other than a potential cognitive enhancing drug) within 30 days or 6 half-lives (whichever is longer) prior to randomization. For investigational LAI antipsychotics, the last injection must be at least 3 months or two administration cycles (i.e. 6 months if administration is every 3 months) prior to randomization, whichever is longer.
* Patients who have participated in a clinical trial with repeated assessments (i.e. a single assessment is not exclusionary) with the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) within the last 6 months prior to randomization.
* Patients who required a change in ongoing benzodiazepine or sleep medication dose or regimen within the last 30 days prior to randomization.
* Patients with known active infection with SARS-CoV-2 within the last 30 days prior to randomization.
* Other exclusion criteria apply

Study design
Purpose of the study
Treatment
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Blinded (masking used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?
The people receiving the treatment/s


The people analysing the results/data
Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
Phase 2
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
15/04/2019
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
4/11/2022
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
200
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
SA,VIC
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Lyell McEwin Hospital - Elizabeth Vale
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Monash Medical Centre - Clayton
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St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne - Fitzroy
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Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre - Melbourne
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5112 - Elizabeth Vale
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3168 - Clayton
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3065 - Fitzroy
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3004 - Melbourne
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France
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Dijon
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France
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Douai
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Nantes
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Paris
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France
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Saint Priest en Jarez
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New Zealand
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Takpuna Auckland
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Cheltenham
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Oxford

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Commercial sector/industry
Name
Boehringer Ingelheim
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Ethics approval
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Summary
Brief summary
This is a study in adults with schizophrenia. The study tests whether a medicine called BI 425809 together with brain training improves mental abilities.

Participants take study medication once a day for 12 weeks. At the start of the study, the participants are put into 2 groups. It is decided by chance who gets into which group. One group gets BI 425809 tablets every day. The other group gets placebo tablets every day. Placebo tablets look like the BI 425809 tablets, but contain no medicine. During the study, all participants do brain training using a computer.

The doctors regularly test mental abilities of the participants. The results of the mental ability tests are compared between the groups. The doctors also check the general health of the patients.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03859973
Trial related presentations / publications
Harvey PD, Bowie CR, McDonald S, Podhorna J. Evaluation of the Efficacy of BI 425809 Pharmacotherapy in Patients with Schizophrenia Receiving Computerized Cognitive Training: Methodology for a Double-blind, Randomized, Parallel-group Trial. Clin Drug Investig. 2020 Apr;40(4):377-385. doi: 10.1007/s40261-020-00893-8.
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Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03859973