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Efficacy and Tolerability of Switching to Ziprasidone From Other Antipsychotics

NCT00458211

NaSingle-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

Because ziprasidone has not been extensively studied and is not widely accepted in the severely mentally ill in State hospitals this study aims to demonstrate its effectiveness and relative lack of side effects. 75 patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who need a change of medication because of ineffectiveness or side effects will be changed to ziprasidone and followed with detailed assessments for eight weeks. The hypothesis is that they will improve and have fewer side effects.

Timeline

Start
2005-05
Primary completion
2008-04
Completion
2008-04

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Ziprasidone Small molecule 80 mg Oral