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Adjuvant therapy with minocycline for schizophrenia (The MINOS Trial): study protocol for a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is understood to be a heterogeneous brain condition with overlapping symptom dimensions. The negative symptom dimension, with its protean cognitive manifestations, responds poorly to treatment, which can be a particular challenge in countries where clozapine therapy is not...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4222697/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24279305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-406 |
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author | Fekadu, Abebaw Mesfin, Miraf Medhin, Girmay Alem, Atalay Teferra, Solomon Gebre-Eyesus, Tsehaysina Seboxa, Teshale Assefa, Abraham Hussein, Jemal Lemma, Martha T Borba, Christina Henderson, David C Hanlon, Charlotte Shibre, Teshome |
author_facet | Fekadu, Abebaw Mesfin, Miraf Medhin, Girmay Alem, Atalay Teferra, Solomon Gebre-Eyesus, Tsehaysina Seboxa, Teshale Assefa, Abraham Hussein, Jemal Lemma, Martha T Borba, Christina Henderson, David C Hanlon, Charlotte Shibre, Teshome |
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description | BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is understood to be a heterogeneous brain condition with overlapping symptom dimensions. The negative symptom dimension, with its protean cognitive manifestations, responds poorly to treatment, which can be a particular challenge in countries where clozapine therapy is not available. Preliminary data indicate that minocycline may be beneficial adjunct in the treatment of schizophrenia: positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms. In this study we aim to assess the efficacy of adjunctive minocycline to alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia in patients who have failed to respond to a therapeutic trial of antipsychotic medications. METHODS: The study is a parallel group, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Participants will be adults (aged 18 years and above) with first episode or relapse episode of schizophrenia of under 5 years’ duration. Patients who failed to show adequate therapeutic response to at least one antipsychotic medication given for a minimum of 4 weeks will be recruited from a psychiatry hospital in Addis Ababa and a psychiatry clinic in Butajira, Ethiopia. A total of 150 participants (75 in each arm) will be required to detect a five-point mean difference between the intervention arms adjusting for baseline symptom severity, at 90% power and 95% confidence. Patients in the intervention arm will receive minocycline (200 mg/day orally) added on to the regular antipsychotic medications participants are already on. Those in the placebo arm will receive an inactive compound identical in physical appearance to minocycline. Intervention will be offered for 12 weeks. Diagnosis will be established using the operational criteria for research (OPCRIT). Primary outcome measure will be a change in symptom severity measured using the positive and the negative syndrome scale for schizophrenia (PANSS). Secondary outcome measures will include changes in severity of negative symptoms, proportion achieving remission, and level of functioning. Whether changes are maintained post intervention will also be measured (PANSS). Key assessment for the primary outcome will be conducted at the end of trial (week 12). One post-intervention assessment will be conducted 4 weeks after the end of intervention (week 16) to determine sustainability of change. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT01809158. |
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spelling | pubmed-42226972014-11-07 Adjuvant therapy with minocycline for schizophrenia (The MINOS Trial): study protocol for a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial Fekadu, Abebaw Mesfin, Miraf Medhin, Girmay Alem, Atalay Teferra, Solomon Gebre-Eyesus, Tsehaysina Seboxa, Teshale Assefa, Abraham Hussein, Jemal Lemma, Martha T Borba, Christina Henderson, David C Hanlon, Charlotte Shibre, Teshome Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is understood to be a heterogeneous brain condition with overlapping symptom dimensions. The negative symptom dimension, with its protean cognitive manifestations, responds poorly to treatment, which can be a particular challenge in countries where clozapine therapy is not available. Preliminary data indicate that minocycline may be beneficial adjunct in the treatment of schizophrenia: positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms. In this study we aim to assess the efficacy of adjunctive minocycline to alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia in patients who have failed to respond to a therapeutic trial of antipsychotic medications. METHODS: The study is a parallel group, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Participants will be adults (aged 18 years and above) with first episode or relapse episode of schizophrenia of under 5 years’ duration. Patients who failed to show adequate therapeutic response to at least one antipsychotic medication given for a minimum of 4 weeks will be recruited from a psychiatry hospital in Addis Ababa and a psychiatry clinic in Butajira, Ethiopia. A total of 150 participants (75 in each arm) will be required to detect a five-point mean difference between the intervention arms adjusting for baseline symptom severity, at 90% power and 95% confidence. Patients in the intervention arm will receive minocycline (200 mg/day orally) added on to the regular antipsychotic medications participants are already on. Those in the placebo arm will receive an inactive compound identical in physical appearance to minocycline. Intervention will be offered for 12 weeks. Diagnosis will be established using the operational criteria for research (OPCRIT). Primary outcome measure will be a change in symptom severity measured using the positive and the negative syndrome scale for schizophrenia (PANSS). Secondary outcome measures will include changes in severity of negative symptoms, proportion achieving remission, and level of functioning. Whether changes are maintained post intervention will also be measured (PANSS). Key assessment for the primary outcome will be conducted at the end of trial (week 12). One post-intervention assessment will be conducted 4 weeks after the end of intervention (week 16) to determine sustainability of change. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT01809158. BioMed Central 2013-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4222697/ /pubmed/24279305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-406 Text en Copyright © 2013 Fekadu et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Fekadu, Abebaw Mesfin, Miraf Medhin, Girmay Alem, Atalay Teferra, Solomon Gebre-Eyesus, Tsehaysina Seboxa, Teshale Assefa, Abraham Hussein, Jemal Lemma, Martha T Borba, Christina Henderson, David C Hanlon, Charlotte Shibre, Teshome Adjuvant therapy with minocycline for schizophrenia (The MINOS Trial): study protocol for a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial |
title | Adjuvant therapy with minocycline for schizophrenia (The MINOS Trial): study protocol for a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial |
title_full | Adjuvant therapy with minocycline for schizophrenia (The MINOS Trial): study protocol for a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial |
title_fullStr | Adjuvant therapy with minocycline for schizophrenia (The MINOS Trial): study protocol for a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Adjuvant therapy with minocycline for schizophrenia (The MINOS Trial): study protocol for a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial |
title_short | Adjuvant therapy with minocycline for schizophrenia (The MINOS Trial): study protocol for a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial |
title_sort | adjuvant therapy with minocycline for schizophrenia (the minos trial): study protocol for a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4222697/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24279305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-406 |
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