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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2015
Main ID:  ISRCTN46365995
Date of registration: 16/05/2005
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Academic Medical Centre (AMC) (The Netherlands)
Public title: Subjective well-being, craving for Cannabis and compliance or medication switch in a randomised double blind study with Olanzapine and Risperidone
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Date of first enrolment: 01/07/2003
Target sample size: 120
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN46365995
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised, active controlled, parallel group, double-blinded trial (Treatment)  
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Countries of recruitment
Netherlands
Contacts
Name: Lonneke    van Nimwegen
Address:  Academic Medical Centre University of Amsterdam Adolescent Clinic Department of Psychiatry Tafelbergweg 25 1105 BC Amsterdam Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0)20 566 2142
Email: L.J.vanNimwegen@amc.uva.nl
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients should be able to understand the study description and give informed consent
2. Diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or schizophreniform disorder according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV)
3. Patients experience a first or second psychotic episode
4. Age is between 18 and 30 years
5. No current use of clozapine
6. Patients must be reliable. They must agree to co-operate with all tests and examinations required by the protocol

Exclusion criteria: 1. Pregnancy
2. Lactating women
3. Female subject without adequate contraception
4. Known hypersensitivity to any ingredient of olanzapine or risperidone
5. Concomitant use of any other antipsychotic drug than olanzapine or risiperidone
6. Patients are not allowed to have received depot anti-psychotics for a period of at least three months prior to the study
7. Use of other psychotropic medication other than oxazepam or biperiden
8. Narrow-angle glaucoma
9. Known neurological or endocrine disease


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Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder, schizofreniform disorder
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Schizophrenia
Intervention(s)
Patients are treated double blind with olanzapine (5 - 20 mg) or risperidone (1.25 - 5 mg) for six weeks. At t = 0, t = 7 days and t = 42 days, questionnaires are taken and after six weeks the medication is disclosed. The physician and patient decide if this neuroleptic will be continued. After one year the questionnaires are taken once more.
Primary Outcome(s)
1. Subjective Well-Being Under Neuroleptics Scale (SWN)
2. Obsessive Compulsive Drug Use Scale (OCDUS)
3. Positive And Negative Symptoms Scale (PANSS) based on information from the semi-structured interview (SCI-PANSS)
4. Calgary Depression Rating Scale (CDRS)
5. Extra-Pyramidal Symptom Rating Scale (ESRS)
6. Clinical Global Impression (CGI)
7. Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)
8. Desires for Drugs Questionnaire (DDQ)
9. Drug Use Self Report (DUSR)
10. Recent Drug Use Urinalysis (RDUU)
Secondary Outcome(s)
1. Drop out from the study
2. Medication compliance and medication switch, symptoms and rehospitalisations during one year follow up, measured with the Life Chart Schedule (LCS)
Secondary ID(s)
NTR28
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Eli Lilly (The Netherlands)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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