Clinical trial • Phase IV • Psychiatry

PROPRANOLOL for Post-traumatic stress disorder

Phase IV trial of PROPRANOLOL for Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Overview

Trial Therapeutic Area
Psychiatry
Trial Disease
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Trial Stage
Phase IV
Drug Modality
Small molecule

Key dates

Initial CTIS Submission Date
10-10-2024
First CTIS Authorization Date
17-02-2025

Trial design

Randomised, placebo (microcrystalline cellulose) capsules identical to active; administered according to same dosing schedule as experimental arm (placebo following the same oral schedule).-controlled Phase IV trial across 1 site in France.

Randomised
Yes
Comparator
Placebo (microcrystalline cellulose) capsules identical to active; administered according to same dosing schedule as experimental arm (placebo following the same oral schedule).
Target Sample Size
34
Trial Duration For Participant
180

Eligibility

Recruits 34 Protected adults under guardianship ("Majeure protégée (tutelle, curatelle, sauvegarde de justice)") are explicitly excluded; participants must provide written informed consent ("Consentement libre, éclairé et écrit signé par la participante"); minors are excluded (age ≥ 18). isVulnerablePopulationSelected = false..

Pregnancy Exclusion
Femme enceinte ou allaitante
Vulnerable Population
Protected adults under guardianship ("Majeure protégée (tutelle, curatelle, sauvegarde de justice)") are explicitly excluded; participants must provide written informed consent ("Consentement libre, éclairé et écrit signé par la participante"); minors are excluded (age ≥ 18). isVulnerablePopulationSelected = false.

Inclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Femme (sexe féminin, cisgenre)\n- Patient understanding and reading French\n- Âge supérieur ou égal à 18 ans\n- Patient agrees to follow contraceptive requirements detailed in protocol\n- PAS supérieur à 10 cm Hg\n- Reçue en consultation de violences sexuelles dans l’Unité Médico-Judiciaire (UMJ) pour attouchements et/ou viol dans les 72h après la survenue des faits\n- Affiliée à un régime de sécurité sociale\n- Consentement libre, éclairé et écrit signé par la participante\n- Patient agrees to follow contraceptive requirements detailed in protocol\n- Heart rate ≥ 55 bpm"}

Exclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Majeure protégée (tutelle, curatelle, sauvegarde de justice)\n- Conscience ou vigilance perturbée, amnésie des faits\n- Patients with severe liver disease and/or significant renal insufficiency\n- Hypersensibilité connue au Propranolol ou asthme traité, même de façon occasionnelle\n- Prise actuelle d’un bêta-bloquant quelle que soit la galénique\n- Patients with myasthenia gravis and a personal history of psoriasis\n- Known interactions with Propranolol (associations not recommended and associations to be used with caution) indicated in the summary of product characteristics (Appendix 11)\n- Patients wearing contact lenses\n- People currently receiving psychotropic treatment such as antipsychotics or antidepressants.\n- People with known serious psychiatric disorders, current or past\n- Prise actuelle d’un médicament présentant une interaction médicamenteuse contre-indiquée ou déconseillée avec le Propranolol : Bepridil, Diltiazem, Verapamil, Fingolimod.\n- Addiction : présence d’un trouble actuel lié à l’usage de substances psychoactives\n- Traitement par benzodiazépines en cours\n- Patients with head trauma within the last year or with clinical symptoms and neurological sequelae\n- High suicide risk, i.e., in participants who responded positively to items 4 or 5 of the C-SSRS suicidal ideation scale or any positive assessment of suicidal behavior in the 6 months preceding selection.\n- Femme enceinte ou allaitante\n- Patient previously diagnosed with PTSD\n- Violences sexuelles répétées ou chroniques"}

Endpoints

Primary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- Taux de participantes présentant des symptômes du TSPT. La présence de ces symptômes sera évaluée par un soignant du Centre Régional de Psychotraumatologie à 5 semaines à l’aide de l’échelle CAPS-5 (Clinician Administered PTSD Scale pour le DSM-5).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Presence of PTSD symptoms assessed by a clinician at 5 weeks using the CAPS-5 (Clinician Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5)."}

Secondary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- Evaluer à 5 semaines : la symptomatologie de TSPT par auto-questionnaires (IES-R, Impact of Event Scale – Revised ; PCL-5, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 ; PHQ-9, Patient Health Questionnaire).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"PTSD symptomatology at 5 weeks assessed by self-questionnaires: IES-R, PCL-5, PHQ-9."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Evaluer à 5 semaines : le retentissement sur le fonctionnement individuel par auto-questionnaires (FAST, Functional Assessment Staging Tool ; GAF, Global Assessment of Functioning ; EVA subjective de l’état de santé, Echelle Visuelle Analogique).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Impact on individual functioning at 5 weeks assessed by self-questionnaires: FAST, GAF, subjective VAS of health status."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Evaluer à 3 mois: la symptomatologie de TSPT par auto-questionnaires (IES-R, PCL-5, PHQ-9)","definition_or_measurement_approach":"PTSD symptomatology at 3 months assessed by self-questionnaires: IES-R, PCL-5, PHQ-9."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Evaluer à 3 mois : le retentissement sur le fonctionnement individuel par auto-questionnaires (FAST, GAF, EVA subjective de l’état de santé).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Impact on individual functioning at 3 months assessed by self-questionnaires: FAST, GAF, subjective VAS of health status."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Evaluer à 3 mois : les coûts associés à la consommation de soins et aux arrêts de travail depuis J0.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Costs associated with healthcare consumption and work stoppages from baseline to 3 months (health economics data collection since J0)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Evaluate at 3 months : Suicide risk using the C-SSRS scale","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Suicide risk at 3 months assessed using the C-SSRS (Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Evaluate at 6 months: PTSD symptomatology by self-questionnaires (IES-R, PCL-5, PHQ-9);","definition_or_measurement_approach":"PTSD symptomatology at 6 months assessed by self-questionnaires: IES-R, PCL-5, PHQ-9."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Evaluate at 6 months : Impact on individual functioning, using self-questionnaires (FAST, GAF, subjective VAS of health status)","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Impact on individual functioning at 6 months assessed by self-questionnaires: FAST, GAF, subjective VAS of health status."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Collection of adverse events occurring during the study.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Recording/collection of adverse events throughout the study period."}

Recruitment

Planned Sample Size
34
Recruitment Window Months
24
Consent Approach
Written informed consent required: 'Consentement libre, éclairé et écrit signé par la participante'. Participants must understand and read French. Consent provided by the adult female participant herself; no assent procedures (minors excluded). Patient-facing documents available (subject information and ICF documents listed).

Methods

  • Recruitment of eligible female victims presenting to the Unité Médico-Judiciaire (UMJ) of CHRU de Tours within 72 hours after sexual assault (screening and inclusion performed at UMJ consultation).

Geography

Total Number Of Sites
1
Total Number Of Participants
34

France

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
15-01-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
17-02-2025
Processing Time Days
33
Number Of Sites
1
Number Of Participants
34

Sites

Site Name
Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire De Tours
Department Name
Psychiatry and Addictology Unit
Principal Investigator Name
Wissam El HAGE
Principal Investigator Email
wissam.elhage@univ-tours.fr
Contact Person Name
Wissam El HAGE
Contact Person Email
wissam.elhage@univ-tours.fr
Number Of Participants
34

Sponsor

Primary sponsor

Full Name
Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire De Tours
Organisation Type
Hospital/Clinic/Other health care facility
Country Of Registered Address
France

Investigational products

Investigational Product Name
Propranolol 40 mg film-coated tablets
Active Substance
PROPRANOLOL
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
ORAL USE
Route
Oral
Authorisation Status
Authorised (marketing authorisation: mrpNumber PT/H/2738/002; authorisationCountryCode: PT)
Starting Dose
120 mg per day (3 × 40 mg/day)
Dose Levels
120 mg/day (3 × 40 mg) for 10 days; then 80 mg/day (2 × 40 mg) for 7 days; then 40 mg/day (1 × 40 mg) for 7 days
Frequency
Initially three times daily (40 mg TID) then twice daily (40 mg BID) then once daily (40 mg QD) during taper
Maximum Dose
120 mg

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