NCT04055181

Brief Summary

The investigators investigated the effects of high frequency (10Hz) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on the symptoms and cognitive functioning in patients with psychiatric disorders

Trial Health

87
On Track

Trial Health Score

Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach

Enrollment
800

participants targeted

Target at P75+ for not_applicable schizophrenia

Timeline
Completed

Started Dec 2018

Shorter than P25 for not_applicable schizophrenia

Geographic Reach
1 country

6 active sites

Status
completed

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Trial Relationships

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Study Timeline

Key milestones and dates

Study Start

First participant enrolled

December 1, 2018

Completed
8 months until next milestone

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

July 14, 2019

Completed
1 month until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

August 13, 2019

Completed
5 months until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

December 30, 2019

Completed
1 month until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

January 30, 2020

Completed
Last Updated

June 9, 2021

Status Verified

June 1, 2021

Enrollment Period

1.1 years

First QC Date

July 14, 2019

Last Update Submit

June 5, 2021

Conditions

Keywords

schizophreniasmokingrTMSmajor depressive disorder

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

  • symptoms assessed on PANSS

    The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale is often shorted as PANSS. It is a well-characterized and well-applied measurement instrument that measures positive and negative syndromes, their differential and general severity of illness. The items on the PANSS are defined with increasing levels from 1 to 7, the greater the value appears, the severe the level is: 1 = absent, 2 = minimal, 3 = mild, 4 = moderate, 5 = moderate-severe, 6 = severe, and 7 = extreme. The PANSS score is finalized by summation of ratings across different items, the potential range for positive and negative scales are from 7 to 49 whereas the General Psychopathology Scale is ranged between 16 to 112.

    4 weeks

  • cognitive functioning assessed on RBANS

    The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) is a test for identifying and characterizing abnormal cognitive decline in the elders and examining neuropsychological disorders for younger adults. The RBANS is comprised of five domains, which are Immediate Memory, Visuospatial /Constructional, Language, Attention and Delayed Memory. Each of the five index is based on two subtests except Delayed memory index consisting of four subtests. The score from each index is scaled by the age group with the scaled score mean to be 100 and standard deviation equals to 15, then the total RBANS scored is summed up of these indexes with the same normal mean and standard deviation. The lower the RBANS score the patient receives, the grave cognitive declination appears.

    4 weeks

  • major depressive disorders assessed on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V)

    The classification of major depressive disorder has been updated in the Fifth Edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM-V). It is defined by the lifetime absence of mania and hypomania, as well as one or more major depressive episodes. DSM description includes the diagnostic classification, the diagnostic criteria sets and the descriptive text. The diagnostic classification represents the official list of mental disorder with diagnostic codes that used by all U.S. health care professionals. The diagnostic criteria, specifically, the criteria for major depressive disorder consists: five or more out of nine related symptoms, symptoms cause significant distress or impairment, episode has not attribute to any substance or medical condition, the absent of psychotic disorder, the absent of any manic or hypomanic episode. Last but not the least, the descriptive text provides information like diagnostic features, diagnostic measures and functional consequences.

    4 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (1)

  • Side effect assessed on UKU

    4 weeks

Study Arms (4)

rTMS in schizophrenia patients

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

In active rTMS, 10 Hz stimulations over left DLPFC occurred at a power of 110% of motor threshold (MT) for 27-s intervals with 20s inter-train interval. 20 minutes were administered each day (Monday-Friday) for 4 consecutive weeks

Device: rTMS in schizophrenia patients

rTMS in schizophrenia Controls

SHAM COMPARATOR

In sham rTMS, all procedures were identical to 10Hz Schizophrenia group except they were the non-magnetized steel cylinders, instead of cylindrical magnets, that were rotated.

Device: rTMS in schizophrenia Controls

rTMS in major depressive disorders patients

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

In active rTMS, 10 Hz stimulations over left DLPFC occurred at a power of 110% of MT for 27-s intervals with 20s inter-train interval. 20 minutes were administered each day (Monday-Friday) for 4 consecutive weeks

Device: rTMS in major depressive disorders patients

rTMS in major depressive disorders controls

SHAM COMPARATOR

In sham rTMS, all procedures were identical to 10Hz depression group except they were the non-magnetized steel cylinders, instead of cylindrical magnets, that were rotated.

Device: rTMS in major depressive disorders controls

Interventions

all procedures were identical to "rTMS in schizophrenia patients" group except they were the non-magnetized steel cylinders, instead of cylindrical magnets, that were rotated.

rTMS in schizophrenia Controls

10 Hz stimulations over left DLPFC occurred at a power of 110% of MT for 27-s intervals with 20s intertrain interval. 20 minutes were administered each day (Monday-Friday) for 4 consecutive weeks

rTMS in schizophrenia patients

all procedures were identical to "rTMS in major depressive disorders patients" group except they were the non-magnetized steel cylinders, instead of cylindrical magnets, that were rotated.

rTMS in major depressive disorders controls

10 Hz stimulations over left DLPFC occurred at a power of 110% of MT for 27-s intervals with 20s intertrain interval. 20 minutes were administered each day (Monday-Friday) for 4 consecutive weeks

rTMS in major depressive disorders patients

Eligibility Criteria

Age18 Years - 60 Years
Sexall
Healthy VolunteersNo
Age GroupsAdult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

  • For Schizophrenia Patients:
  • Diagnosis of schizophrenia by two senior psychiatrists
  • Between 18 and 60 years and Han Chinese
  • Duration of symptoms at least 12 months
  • With unresolved negative symptoms (Negative scale of PANSS ≥20 and positive scale of PANSS \< 24)
  • Smoking
  • For Major Depressive Disorder Patients:
  • Diagnosis of Major depressive disorder by two senior psychiatrists
  • Between 18 and 60 years and Han Chinese
  • Duration of symptoms at least 12 months
  • Smoking

You may not qualify if:

  • Documented disease of physical diseases including, but not limited to seizure, epilepsy, aneurysm brain tumor, and stroke, dementia, parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, multiple sclerosis
  • Acute, unstable and/or significant and untreated medical illness (e.g., infection, unstable diabetes, uncontrolled hypertension)
  • Severe headache for unknown reasons and cardiovascular diseases, intracranial metals, pacemakers, severe and those receiving electroconvulsive therapy in the past 3 months
  • Past history of autoimmune and allergies, hypertension, lung disease, diabetes or cerebrovascular disease), past history of neurological illness (head trauma with loss of consciousness for more than 5 minutes) or family history of epilepsy increasing the risk of seizures
  • Education level less than 5 years by subject report
  • Receiving or planning to start the psychotherapy during the rTMS treatment or past received psychotherapy 6 months before the current study
  • Subjects who suffered from alcohol or illegal drug abuse/dependence

Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Sites (6)

Chaohu Hospital of Anhui medical unviersity

Chaohu, Anhui, 238000, China

Location

Zhongshan Third People's Hospital

Zhongshan, Guangdong, 528400, China

Location

Wuhan Mental Health Center

Wuhan, Hubei, 100096, China

Location

Ganzhou Third Hospital

Ganzhou, Jiangxi, 341000, China

Location

Ningxia Mental Health Center

Ning’an, Ningxia, 755100, China

Location

Xi'an Mental Health Center

Xi’an, Shanxi, 710000, China

Location

Related Publications (5)

  • Kozak K, Sharif-Razi M, Morozova M, Gaudette EV, Barr MS, Daskalakis ZJ, Blumberger DM, George TP. Effects of short-term, high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on smoking behavior and cognition in patients with schizophrenia and non-psychiatric controls. Schizophr Res. 2018 Jul;197:441-443. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.02.015. Epub 2018 Feb 24.

    PMID: 29486960BACKGROUND
  • Prikryl R, Ustohal L, Kucerova HP, Kasparek T, Jarkovsky J, Hublova V, Vrzalova M, Ceskova E. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces cigarette consumption in schizophrenia patients. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2014 Mar 3;49:30-5. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2013.10.019. Epub 2013 Nov 6.

    PMID: 24211840BACKGROUND
  • Huang W, Shen F, Zhang J, Xing B. Effect of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Cigarette Smoking in Patients with Schizophrenia. Shanghai Arch Psychiatry. 2016 Dec 25;28(6):309-317. doi: 10.11919/j.issn.1002-0829.216044.

    PMID: 28638206BACKGROUND
  • Zvolensky MJ, Bakhshaie J, Sheffer C, Perez A, Goodwin RD. Major depressive disorder and smoking relapse among adults in the United States: a 10-year, prospective investigation. Psychiatry Res. 2015 Mar 30;226(1):73-7. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.11.064. Epub 2014 Dec 9.

    PMID: 25650047BACKGROUND
  • Benadhira R, Thomas F, Bouaziz N, Braha S, Andrianisaina PS, Isaac C, Moulier V, Januel D. A randomized, sham-controlled study of maintenance rTMS for treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Psychiatry Res. 2017 Dec;258:226-233. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.08.029. Epub 2017 Aug 18.

    PMID: 28844559BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

SchizophreniaDepressive Disorder, MajorSmoking

Interventions

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic DisordersMental DisordersDepressive DisorderMood DisordersBehavior

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Magnetic Field TherapyTherapeutics

Study Officials

  • Xiang Y Zhang, MD,PhD

    Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

Study Type
interventional
Phase
not applicable
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
TRIPLE
Who Masked
PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
Purpose
TREATMENT
Intervention Model
PARALLEL
Sponsor Type
OTHER
Responsible Party
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
PI Title
Professor

Study Record Dates

First Submitted

July 14, 2019

First Posted

August 13, 2019

Study Start

December 1, 2018

Primary Completion

December 30, 2019

Study Completion

January 30, 2020

Last Updated

June 9, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-06

Data Sharing

IPD Sharing
Will not share

Data with be available on request

Locations