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A Study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Esketamine combined with oral antidepressants in the treatment of major depressive disorder with suicidal ideation

A Study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Esketamine combined with oral antidepressants in the treatment of major depressive disorder with suicidal ideation

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Source
ChiCTR
Registry ID
ChiCTR2000041232
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2020-12-22
Start date
2021-01-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2022-10-04

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Conditions

Major depressive disorder with suicidal ideation

Interventions

adolescent experimental group:Esketamine (0.25mg/kg)
adolescent control group:Midazolam (0.02mg/kg)
adult experimental group:Esketamine (0.25mg/kg)
adult control group:Midazolam (0.02 mg/kg)

Sponsors

The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
13 Years to 65 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: (1) Male and female inpatients; (2) Aged 13-65 years, adolescent cohort 13 years=age<18 years,adult cohort 18 years=age=65 years ; (3) Diagnosed with major depressive disorder by screening scid-5 and dsm-5; (4) Patients with 17 or more HAMD-17 scores; (5) Patients with current suicidal ideation for = 3 months as measured by a clinician-rated Columbia suicide severity rating scale (C-SSRS) ideation score = 1 and a self-report Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI)-first 5 items score = 2 and at screening; (6) Subjects with primary school education or above; (7) The subjects who understand the content of the study are willing to join the study and sign the written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients with other mental disorders diagnosed by dsm-5, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, substance related disorder and addiction disorder (except anxiety disorder); 2. Patients with psychotic symptoms in recent 3 months who scored more than 1 in any of the positive symptom items of BPRS (hallucination, exaggeration, suspicion and unusual thinking content); 3. Patients with high suicide risk: had suicidal behavior (defined as self injuring behavior with intention to die) in the past six months, or the researchers judged that they had high suicide risk; 4. Patients with history of nervous system diseases such as epilepsy and dementia, or patients with clinically significant and uncontrolled cardiovascular, kidney, liver, gastrointestinal, blood, immune, endocrine, pulmonary diseases or narrow angle glaucoma (judged according to history, physical examination or auxiliary examination); 5. Patients with allergic reaction to ketamine; 6. Patients with positive urine toxicology screening at screening or baseline; 7. Subjects with positive serum / urine pregnancy test or breast-feeding at the time of screening, or planned to be pregnant during the study.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Columbia suicide severity rating scale;

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Montgomery–?sberg Depression Rating Scale;Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation;Hamilton Depression Rating Scale items 10, 11;

Countries

China

Contacts

Public ContactYuping Ning

Brain Hospital Affiliated to Guangzhou Medical University

ningjeny@126.com+86 20-81570720

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ChiCTR (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 12, 2026