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Registration number
NCT00402220
Ethics application status
Date submitted
18/11/2006
Date registered
22/11/2006
Date last updated
19/10/2020

Titles & IDs
Public title
A Double-blind Sham Controlled Trial of rTMS in Treatment Resistant Major Depression
Scientific title
A Double-blind Sham Controlled Trial of rTMS in Treatment Resistant Major Depression
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
fitzgeraldp
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Major Depressive Disorder 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Mental Health 0 0 0 0
Depression

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Drugs - TMS
Treatment: Devices - Sham TMS

Active comparator: 1 - active TMS

Placebo comparator: 2 - Sham TMS


Treatment: Drugs: TMS
Active Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Treatment: Devices: Sham TMS
Sham Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Intervention code [1] 0 0
Treatment: Drugs
Intervention code [2] 0 0
Treatment: Devices
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 0 0
The 17- item Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D)
Timepoint [1] 0 0
every 3 weeks

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
Patients will be included if they:

1. Have a DSM-IV diagnosis of a major depressive episode (SCID 11).
2. Aged 18-85.
3. Have treatment resistant depression at Stage II of the Thase and Rush classification [31]; .e. have failed to achieve a clinical response, or did not tolerate, at least two separate antidepressant trials of sufficient dose for at least 6 weeks.
4. Have a Hamilton Depression Rating Scale Score of > 20 (moderate - severe depression). Including only a severely ill group of subjects limits the placebo response rate [32]. Moreover, this will allow us to address the application of rTMS methods in the most clinically relevant subgroup of patients (in addition helping to constrain group heterogeneity, a major issue in depression research).
5. Have had no increase or initiation of new antidepressant (or other psychoactive) therapy in the 4 weeks prior to screening.
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
85 Years
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
1. Patients who have an unstable medical condition, neurological disorder or any history of a seizure disorder or are currently pregnant or lactating.
2. In the opinion of the investigator, are a sufficient suicidal risk to require immediate electro-convulsive therapy.
3. Have a current DSM IV diagnosis of substance abuse or dependence disorder, a diagnosis of a personality disorder (SCID II) or another axis 1 disorder.

Please note: several of these criteria (e.g. inclusion criteria 1 & 2, exclusion criteria 3) have been selected to explicitly constrain the heterogeneity of the sample to increase the likely power of the study to detect differences between the groups given the potentially subtle difference between the treatment methods.

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 assessing the outcomes
Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
NA
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
1/03/2007
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
1/01/2011
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
67
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
VIC
Recruitment hospital [1] 0 0
Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre - Prahran
Recruitment postcode(s) [1] 0 0
3181 - Prahran

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Government body
Name
Bayside Health
Address
Country
Other collaborator category [1] 0 0
Other
Name [1] 0 0
National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia
Address [1] 0 0
Country [1] 0 0

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
Trial website
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 0 0
Paul B Fitzgerald, MBBS, MPM, PhD, FRANZCP
Address 0 0
Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for public queries
Name 0 0
Address 0 0
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for scientific queries

No information has been provided regarding IPD availability


What supporting documents are/will be available?

No Supporting Document Provided



Results publications and other study-related documents

No documents have been uploaded by study researchers.

Results not provided in https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00402220