Evaluation of the effect of agomelatine and escitalopram on emotions and motivation in healthy male and female volunteers

ISRCTN ISRCTN75872983
DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN75872983
Secondary identifying numbers CL1-20098-081
Submission date
24/06/2011
Registration date
04/08/2011
Last edited
18/04/2018
Recruitment status
No longer recruiting
Overall study status
Completed
Condition category
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Prospectively registered
Protocol
Statistical analysis plan
Results
Individual participant data

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration and not expected to be available in the future

Contact information

Prof Guy Goodwin
Scientific

University of Oxford
Department of Psychiatry
Warneford Hospital Headington
Oxford
OX3 7JX
United Kingdom

Study information

Study designRandomised double-blind placebo-controlled multicentric study
Primary study designInterventional
Secondary study designRandomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)Hospital
Study typeTreatment
Participant information sheet Not available in web format, please use the contact details below to request a patient information sheet
Scientific titleEvaluation of the effect of agomelatine and escitalopram on emotions and motivation in healthy male and female volunteers
Study objectivesCurrent study hypothesis as of 23/07/2012:
To assess the effects of agomelatine and escitalopram on emotional blinding, emotional processing and motivation during 9 weeks treatment in healthy male and female volunteers

Previous study hypothesis until 23/07/2012:
To assess the effects of agomelatine and escitalopram on emotional blinding, emotional processing and motivation during 8 weeks treatment in healthy male and female volunteers
Ethics approval(s)Ethics approval was obtained before recruitment of the first participants
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studiedMajor Depressive Disorder
Intervention1. A randomised, double-blind study with parallel group of therapeutic oral doses of agomelatine and escitalopram
2. 9 weeks treatment period and 1 week of follow-up period
Intervention typeDrug
Pharmaceutical study type(s)
PhaseNot Applicable
Drug / device / biological / vaccine name(s)Agomelatine, escitalopram
Primary outcome measure1. Emotional blunting will be assessed by using the Oxford Depression Questionnaire (ODQ) at week 0/ week 2/ week 8 and end of study
2. Emotional processing: Facial expression recognition task/Emotional categorisation task/the faces dot-probe task/Emotional memory free recall task/Emotional memory forced recognition task at week 1 and week 8
3. Motivation: Sensitivity to reward and punishment task/Motivation and effort duration task/ Gait speed task/Motivation score at week 0/ week 1/ week 2 and week 8
Secondary outcome measuresNo secondary outcome measures
Overall study start date01/10/2011
Completion date31/05/2013

Eligibility

Participant type(s)Patient
Age groupAdult
Lower age limit18 Years
SexBoth
Target number of participants128
Key inclusion criteria1. Healthy male and female volunteers aged between 18 and 45 years (both inclusive)
2. A Body index (BMI) between 18.0 and 30.0 (both inclusive)
3. Ability and/or willingness to undergo psychological test battery, motivation test battery and self-rating questionnaires or clinician-rated questionnaires including sexual activity questionnaire
4. Speaks fluent English
5. Negative urine pregnancy test for women of childbearing potential at inclusion
6. Using consistently and correctly method of birth control such as implants, injectables, oral contraceptives, some intra-uterine device or surgical sterilization
7. Negative drug abuse and breath ethanol test
Key exclusion criteria1. Any surgical procedure since the selection visit
2. Intake of any medication (except paracetamol at the dose of 1.5g/day and oral contraceptives) since the selection visit
3. Previous experience of Emotional Test Battery
Date of first enrolment01/10/2011
Date of final enrolment31/05/2013

Locations

Countries of recruitment

  • England
  • United Kingdom

Study participating centre

University of Oxford
Oxford
OX37JX
United Kingdom

Sponsor information

Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier (France)
Industry

50 rue Carnot
Suresnes
92284
France

Website http://www.servier.com/
ROR logo "ROR" https://ror.org/034e7c066

Funders

Funder type

Industry

Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier (France)

No information available

Results and Publications

Intention to publish date
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to shareYes
IPD sharing plan summaryAvailable on request
Publication and dissemination planPublication plan:
Summary results are published in https://clinicaltrials.servier.com.
IPD sharing planThe datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study will be available upon request from https://clinicaltrials.servier.com if a Marketing Authorisation has been granted after 1st January 2014.

Study outputs

Output type Details Date created Date added Peer reviewed? Patient-facing?
Basic results No No

Editorial Notes

18/04/2018: Internal review.
28/03/2018: Publication and dissemination plan and IPD sharing statement updated.
24/01/2018: Publication plan and IPD sharing statement added.
29/11/2017: Results summary added.