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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 29 April 2013
Main ID:  NCT01424228
Date of registration: 25/08/2011
Primary sponsor: Movetis
Public title: Evaluation of Long-term Prucalopride Treatment With Chronic Constipation in Subjects Aged = 18 Years SPD555-401
Scientific title: A Randomised, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy, Quality of Life, Safety and Tolerability of Long-term Treatment (24 Weeks) With Prucalopride in Subjects Aged =18 Years With Chronic Constipation
Date of first enrolment: June 2011
Target sample size: 364
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01424228
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
Belgium Czech Republic Hungary Italy Poland Romania Slovakia Spain
Sweden
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Subject is a male or non-pregnant, non-breastfeeding female out-patient =18 years of
age (no upper age limit).

2. Subject has a history of constipation. The subject reports an average of =2 SBM/week
that result in a feeling of complete evacuation (SCBM).

3. Subject agrees to stop his/her current laxative treatment and is willing to use
rescue medication according to the rescue rule [bisacodyl/enemas].

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Subjects in whom constipation is thought to be drug-induced

2. Subjects using any disallowed medication.

3. Subjects who previously used prucalopride.

4. Subjects suffering from secondary causes of chronic constipation.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Constipation
Intervention(s)
Drug: placebo
Drug: prucalopride
Primary Outcome(s)
As a measure of efficacy: the primary endpoint is defined as the proportion (%) of subjects with an average of =3 SCBM /week evaluated over the 24-week treatment phase [Time Frame: 24 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Quality of Life [Time Frame: 24 weeks]
Safety and tolerability [Time Frame: 24 weeks]
Secondary ID(s)
M0001-C401
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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