Method of Assessment of Driving Ability in Patients Suffering From Wakefulness Pathologies

NCT ID: NCT00916253

Last Updated: 2013-04-25

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

27 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-03-31

Study Completion Date

2012-08-31

Brief Summary

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The project will improve scientific knowledge regarding a recent law applying potentially to every french driver. It will give for the first time an indication on the impact of alerting treatments on driving risks. It will reinforce the links between different research environments (sleep physiopathology, clinical research, cognitive neurosciences, driver's supervision, virtual reality, pharmacology) among the RESAT network (Réseau Eveil Sommeil Attention Transport). It will stimulate data acquisition in technological research to better understand the difference between real and simulated driving

Detailed Description

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Excessive daytime sleepiness is responsible of 20% of traffic accidents and 2/3 of truck accidents on French Freeways. Since the publication of a new law (arrêté du 28 décembre 2005 du journal officiel) regulating fitness to drive, the Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) is now mandatory to evaluate driving skills of patients suffering of excessive daytime sleepiness. The MWT has shown a good predictability of driving handicap on simulators in patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Nevertheless no study has proven yet the predictability of the MWT regarding real and simulated driving in narcoleptics and hypersomniacs. Furthermore, even if alerting drugs significantly improve MWT scores there is no data available concerning the impact of these drugs on fitness to drive. This lack of knowledge is a major handicap to evaluate driving skills of treated patients suffering from excessive daytime sleepiness. The main objective of our project is to test the predictive value of the MWT on real and simulated driving performances in untreated and treated sleepy patients suffering from narcolepsy and hypersomnia. Inclusion of healthy volunteers will allow to collect reference data about somnolence during MWT.

Conditions

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Narcolepsy Hypersomnia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

Primary Study Purpose

DIAGNOSTIC

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Investigators

Study Groups

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Modafinil First

Treatment by Modafinil during first condition then placebo during second condition

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Modafinil

Intervention Type DRUG

Modafinil is taken by narcoleptics or hypersomniacs during 5 successive days, twice a day (at the breakfast and at the lunch):

* during 3 days at home
* during the period of 2 nights and 2 successive days of hospitalization in order to realise a Maintenance of Wakefulness Test the first day and 2 driving sessions (one simulated driving during the morning and one real driving during the afternoon) of 2 hours each the day after, under treatment (Modafinil).

Placebo

Intervention Type DRUG

Placebo is taken by narcoleptics or hypersomniacs during 5 successive days, twice a day (at the breakfast and at the lunch):

* during 3 days at home
* during the period of 2 nights and 2 successive days of hospitalization in order to realise a Maintenance of Wakefulness Test the first day, and 2 driving sessions ( one simulated driving during the morning and one real driving during the afternoon) of 2 hours each the day after, under Placebo.

Placebo First

Treatment by Placebo during first condition then Modafinil during second condition

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Modafinil

Intervention Type DRUG

Modafinil is taken by narcoleptics or hypersomniacs during 5 successive days, twice a day (at the breakfast and at the lunch):

* during 3 days at home
* during the period of 2 nights and 2 successive days of hospitalization in order to realise a Maintenance of Wakefulness Test the first day and 2 driving sessions (one simulated driving during the morning and one real driving during the afternoon) of 2 hours each the day after, under treatment (Modafinil).

Placebo

Intervention Type DRUG

Placebo is taken by narcoleptics or hypersomniacs during 5 successive days, twice a day (at the breakfast and at the lunch):

* during 3 days at home
* during the period of 2 nights and 2 successive days of hospitalization in order to realise a Maintenance of Wakefulness Test the first day, and 2 driving sessions ( one simulated driving during the morning and one real driving during the afternoon) of 2 hours each the day after, under Placebo.

H

Healthy Volunteers

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Modafinil

Modafinil is taken by narcoleptics or hypersomniacs during 5 successive days, twice a day (at the breakfast and at the lunch):

* during 3 days at home
* during the period of 2 nights and 2 successive days of hospitalization in order to realise a Maintenance of Wakefulness Test the first day and 2 driving sessions (one simulated driving during the morning and one real driving during the afternoon) of 2 hours each the day after, under treatment (Modafinil).

Intervention Type DRUG

Placebo

Placebo is taken by narcoleptics or hypersomniacs during 5 successive days, twice a day (at the breakfast and at the lunch):

* during 3 days at home
* during the period of 2 nights and 2 successive days of hospitalization in order to realise a Maintenance of Wakefulness Test the first day, and 2 driving sessions ( one simulated driving during the morning and one real driving during the afternoon) of 2 hours each the day after, under Placebo.

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Narcoleptic patients with or without cataplexy or hypersomniacs
* aged from 18 to 65 years,
* treated for attacks of cataplexy,
* treated with a maximum dose of Modiodal: 400 mg per day (4 tablets of 100mg),
* without any other disease which could be responsible of excessive daytime sleepiness,
* having their driver's licence,
* driving more than 5000 Km/year,
* registered to French national health and pensions organization,
* having regular timetables of life 7 days before beginning the study,
* having given their written light agreement in order to participate in the study.


* without any sleep disorders,
* having their driver's licence since at least 2 years,
* driving more than 5000 Km/year,
* registered to French national health and pensions organization,
* having regular timetables of life 7 days before beginning the study,
* having given their written light agreement in order to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

* Night workers,
* breast-feeding or pregnant women
* Beck's scale score \< 8,
* neurologic disease,
* cardiovascular disorders including cardiac arrhythmia,
* sleep disorders except narcolepsy and hypersomnia,
* pulmonary disorders,
* renal disorders,
* endocrinal disorders,
* having participated in a clinical study during the last 6 months,
* unable to drive.


* Night workers,
* neurologic disease,
* cardiovascular disorders,
* sleep disorders,
* pulmonary disorders,
* renal disorders,
* endocrinal disorders,
* having participated in a clinical study during the last 6 months,
* unable to drive.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University Hospital, Bordeaux

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Pierre PHILIP, MD, PHD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Hospital, Bordeaux

Locations

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GENNPHASS - CHU de Bordeaux

Bordeaux, , France

Site Status

AP-HP - Hôpital de l'Hôtel-Dieu

Paris, , France

Site Status

Countries

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France

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Other Identifiers

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CHUBX 2008/37

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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