drugset / Trial / NCT00617058

Improving Metabolic Parameters of Antipsychotic Child Treatment With Ziprasidone, Aripiprazole, and Clozapine

NCT00617058 ↗

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relative risks and benefits of two approaches to the control of weight gain and other negative side effects in children and adolescents on 2nd generation antipsychotics (SGA): * Healthy lifestyle instruction (nutritional and physical activity surveillance and advice) + continuation of current SGA; * Add the diabetes drug, metformin + continuation of current SGA.

Timeline

Start
2007-03
Primary completion
2010-06
Completion
2010-09

Outcome

Outcome not reported

Stopped: “Terminated in lieu of similar,competing large, multi-site study.”

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Metformin Small molecule 250 mg —
Subject Metformin Small molecule 2000 mg —

Indications

No indication recorded.