Completed

Antidepressant Treatment of AIDS Related Depression.

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What is being tested

Imipramine hydrochloride

Drug
Who is being recruted

Blood-Borne Infections+16

+ Urogenital Diseases

+ Genital Diseases

From 18 to 65 Years
+7 Eligibility Criteria
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How is the trial designed

Treatment Study

Phase 2
Interventional
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Summary

Principal SponsorGEIGY Pharmaceuticals
Last updated: April 23, 2015
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To test the effectiveness treating AIDS related depression with imipramine hydrochloride. Depression syndromes are commonly associated with chronic, disabling, and fatal diseases. Due to the relentless course of HIV infection, there is a certain reluctance to treat the associated depression. In other illness, it has been proven that treating the depression often results in improvement of overall health status. This is a placebo controlled trial. Half of the patients are given imipramine hydrochloride every day for 6 weeks. Assessment is done by self reports and the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. Prior to entry all patients are given a psychiatric evaluation. There is a cross over phase in which placebo non responders are entered into an open-label study and given imipramine hydrochloride.

NCT00000390
Principal SponsorGEIGY Pharmaceuticals
Last updated: April 23, 2015
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Protocol

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

Treatment Study

These studies test new ways to treat a disease, condition, or health issue. The goal is to see if a new drug, therapy, or approach works better or has fewer side effects than existing options.

Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Conditions
Criteria

Any sex

Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.

From 18 to 65 Years

Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.

Conditions

Pathology

Blood-Borne InfectionsUrogenital DiseasesGenital DiseasesBehaviorBehavioral SymptomsCommunicable DiseasesImmunologic Deficiency SyndromesImmune System DiseasesInfectionsRetroviridae InfectionsRNA Virus InfectionsSexually Transmitted DiseasesSlow Virus DiseasesVirus DiseasesSexually Transmitted Diseases, ViralHIV InfectionsLentivirus InfectionsAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeDepression

Criteria

4 inclusion criteria required to participate
CD4 Unspecified
May have been alcoholic or drug abuser 6 months previous
Patient must be ambulatory and relatively good health. Even if unable to work at least able to partially care care for self and not demented
Unspecified
3 exclusion criteria prevent from participating
Current alcohol or drug abuse
Non ambulatory patients or those requiring extensive help in self care are excluded
Unspecified

Study Centers

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This study has 1 location

New York Hosp - Cornell Med Ctr

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CompletedOne Study Center