Clinical Global Impression of Cariprazine in Negative Symptom Schizophrenia Patients: Comparison of clinical trial data vs. real-world evidence
| Autor: | E. Rancans, Z. B. Dombi, R. Csehi, G. Németh |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | European Psychiatry, Vol 66, Pp S641-S641 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0924-9338 1778-3585 12365424 |
| DOI: | 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.1333 |
| Popis: | Introduction There is an increasing need to understand the effectiveness of novel medications in real-world context since despite being the gold standard, double-blind trials have their own limitations as well. Clinical Global Impression is a simple tool for clinicians to assess the severity of an illness (CGI-Severity) as well as to rate how much the patient’s disorder has improved or worsened relative to baseline (CGI-Improvement). In this poster, cariprazine, a third-generation antipsychotic medication that was found to be effective in the treatment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia will be evaluated. Objectives To compare the effectiveness of cariprazine in clinical trial vs real-world setting via the CGI-S and CGI-I scales in negative symptom schizophrenia patients. Methods We compared the results of a clinical trial (Németh et al. Lancet 2017; 389:1103-13) and an observational study (Rancans et al. Int Clin Psychopharmacol. 2021;36(3):154-161). The latter was an open-label, flexible-dose, 16-week, observational study of cariprazine involving 116 outpatients in Latvia. Adult patients who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, exhibited negative symptoms based on clinical judgement, were at least mildly ill according to the CGI-S scale and have not previously received cariprazine were eligible to take part in the study. Dosing of cariprazine was based on clinical judgement. The clinical trial was a randomized, double-blind, multi-centred, 26-week study with adults aged 18–65 years with long-term (>2 year), stable schizophrenia and predominant negative symptoms (>6 months). Patients were randomly assigned to monotherapy with cariprazine 4.5 mg/day or risperidone 4.0 mg/day. Results 116 patients on flexible dose cariprazine (observational study) were compared with 227 patients on cariprazine 4.5 mg/day and 229 on risperidone 4.0 mg/day (clinical trial). Baseline severity of illness as measured by the CGI-S was between moderately and markedly ill in all three groups. By the end of the 26-week trial, cariprazine reduced the CGI-S score significantly (LS Mean Change: -0.9, p |
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