DreaMS - Validation Study 1

NCT ID: NCT05009160

Last Updated: 2025-04-02

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

300 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-03-30

Study Completion Date

2027-03-31

Brief Summary

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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) causing focal lesions of demyelination and diffuse neurodegeneration in the grey and white matter of the brain and spinal cord, leading to physical and cognitive disability. The scientific community and patients are in need for new and more reliable biomarkers, especially biomarkers of disease progression in order to adapt therapeutic approaches on an individual level. Digital biomarkers have the potential to fill this gap allowing for quasi-continuous measures that might be more informative than episodically collected conventional data concerning the impact of the disease on activities of daily living.

Using app-based challenges, continuous monitoring and surveys the Investigators aim to obtain data that can be used as digital biomarkers (DB). These digital biomarkers will provide more granular and precise assessments, thus complementing traditional diagnostic measures and techniques. After a first feasibility study (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04413032) a number of digital biomarkers have been identified as reliable, reproducible and meaningful to PwMS and are therefore being validated in a bigger cohort of PwMS with a longer follow-up within this validation study 1. Those digital biomarkers will be compared to state-of-the-Art clinical, imaging and body fluid assessment.

Detailed Description

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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) causing focal lesions of demyelination and diffuse neurodegeneration in the grey and white matter of the brain and spinal cord, leading to physical and cognitive disability. Currently there is a limited number of relevant biomarkers available in persons with MS (PwMS), such as clinical, imaging or biological measures. Patient history and neurologic examination in combination with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), evoked potentials and analysis of serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are the gold standard of diagnosis and mainly patient history, neurologic examination and MRI are used for patient monitoring. However, their prognostic value on a patient level is still very limited. Therefore, the scientific community and patients are in need for new and more reliable biomarkers, especially biomarkers of disease progression in order to adapt therapeutic approaches on an individual level. Digital biomarkers have the potential to fill this gap allowing for quasi-continuous measures that might be more informative than episodically collected conventional data concerning the impact of the disease on activities of daily living.

The Investigators have developed the Healios+Me platform App which contains the dreaMS App and serves as a data collection, communication and management platform using data collected through the patients' mobile devices (smartphone and wearables). Using the dreaMS app-based challenges, continuous monitoring and surveys the Investigators aim to obtain data that can be used as digital biomarkers (DB). These digital biomarkers will provide more granular and precise assessments, thus complementing traditional diagnostic measures and techniques. After a first feasibility study (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04413032) a number of digital biomarkers have been identified as reliable, reproducible and meaningful to PwMS and are therefore being validated in a bigger cohort of PwMS with a longer follow-up within this validation study 1. Those digital biomarkers will be compared to state-of-the-Art clinical, imaging and body fluid assessment.

Conditions

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Multiple Sclerosis

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Patients with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS)

PwMS will download the Indivi platform App which contains the dreaMS App and will follow the study schedule.

dreaMS App R2.1

Intervention Type DEVICE

The Healios+Me platform App which contains the dreaMS App will be downloaded by all participants and all participants (PwMS and HC) will follow the same schedule

Healthy Control Persons (HC)

HC will download the Indivi platform App which contains the dreaMS App and will follow the same study schedule as PwMS.

dreaMS App R2.1

Intervention Type DEVICE

The Healios+Me platform App which contains the dreaMS App will be downloaded by all participants and all participants (PwMS and HC) will follow the same schedule

Interventions

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dreaMS App R2.1

The Healios+Me platform App which contains the dreaMS App will be downloaded by all participants and all participants (PwMS and HC) will follow the same schedule

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age ≥18
* Diagnosed with MS according to the revised McDonald criteria 2017, all clinical forms inclusive (CIS, RRMS, SPMS, PPMS), for PwMS only
* In possession of a Healios+Me App compatible smartphone (iOS/Android)
* Corrected close visual acuity of ≥0.5
* Hand motor skills sufficient for using a smartphone
* Ability to follow the study procedures
* Informed Consent as documented by signature

Exclusion Criteria

* Being diagnosed with MS or other disease affecting neurological and cognitive functions, for HC only
* Other clinically significant concomitant disease states (e.g., renal failure, severe hepatic dysfunction, severe/unstable cardiovascular disease, progressive cancer, etc.)
* Known or suspected non-compliance, drug or alcohol abuse
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Basel

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Innosuisse - Swiss Innovation Agency

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Hoffmann-La Roche

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Indivi AG

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Research Center for Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neuroscience Basel

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Ludwig Kappos

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Research Center for Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neuroscience Basel

Jannis Müller

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

RC2NB and Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland

Locations

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Neurozentrum, Kantonsspital Aarau

Aarau, Switzerland, Switzerland

Site Status RECRUITING

Department of Neurology, CHUV Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland, Switzerland

Site Status RECRUITING

Centro Sclerosi Multipla, Ospedale Regionale di Lugano

Lugano, Switzerland, Switzerland

Site Status RECRUITING

Klinik für Neurologie, Kantonsspital St. Gallen

Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, Switzerland

Site Status RECRUITING

Klinik für Neurologie, Universitätsspital Zürich

Zurich, Switzerland, Switzerland

Site Status RECRUITING

MS Center, Department of Neurology University Hospital Basel

Basel, , Switzerland

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Switzerland

Central Contacts

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Jannis Müller

Role: CONTACT

+41613284345

Facility Contacts

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Jannis Müller

Role: primary

+41613284345

Other Identifiers

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SNCTP000004678

Identifier Type: REGISTRY

Identifier Source: secondary_id

DreaMS_2021VS1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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