A Study of the Safety and Efficacy of Pimavanserin in Patients With Parkinson's Disease Psychosis

NCT ID: NCT06068465

Last Updated: 2025-08-19

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

PHASE3

Total Enrollment

248 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-09-27

Study Completion Date

2026-01-01

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of 34 mg pimavanserin compared to placebo in patients with Parkinson's disease psychosis (PDP).

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Parkinson's Disease Psychosis

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

QUADRUPLE

Participants Caregivers Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Pimavanserin tartrate

Pimavanserin, 34 mg, capsule,once daily by mouth for 6 weeks Interventions

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

pimavanserin tartrate

Intervention Type DRUG

pimavanserin tartrate, 34 mg, capsule, once daily by mouth for 6 weeks

Placebo

Placebo, capsule, once daily by mouth for 6 weeks

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

placebo

Intervention Type DRUG

placebo, capsule, once daily by mouth for 6 weeks

Interventions

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pimavanserin tartrate

pimavanserin tartrate, 34 mg, capsule, once daily by mouth for 6 weeks

Intervention Type DRUG

placebo

placebo, capsule, once daily by mouth for 6 weeks

Intervention Type DRUG

Other Intervention Names

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NUPLAZID®

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Male or female of 40 years of age or older;
2. A clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease with a minimum duration of 1 year;
3. Subjects must have had psychotic symptoms that developed after the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease was established. These symptoms must have included visual hallucinations and/or auditory hallucinations, and/or delusions;
4. Psychotic symptoms were to have been present for at least one month and the subject must have been actively experienced psychotic symptoms each week during the month prior to the Screening visit;
5. Symptoms severe enough to warrant treatment with an antipsychotic agent; documented at screening by items A and B of the NPI, and defined as a score of 4 or greater on either the Hallucinations (Frequency x Severity) or Delusions (Frequency x Severity) scales OR a total combined score of 6 or greater;
6. At the baseline visit, subject must have had a SAPS Hallucinations or Delusions global item (H7 or D13) score ≥3 AND a score \>3 on at least one other non-global item using the modified 9-item SAPS Hallucinations and Delusions domains;
7. Subject must have had a clear sensorium at study entry (i.e., oriented to time, person, and place);
8. Subject must have been on stable dose of anti-Parkinson's medication for 1 month prior to Day 1 (Baseline) and during the trial;
9. If a Subject had received stereotaxic surgery for sub-thalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation they must have been at least 6 months post-surgery and the stimulator settings must have been stable for at least 1 month prior to Day 1 (Baseline) and must remain stable during the trial;
10. Subjects of reproductive age (male/female) must have agreed to use a clinically acceptable method of contraception for at least one month prior to randomization, during the study, and one month following completion of the study;
11. The subject was required to be willing and able to provide consent;
12. Caregiver was required to be willing and able to provide consent and agrees to accompany the subject to all visits.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Subject with psychotic symptoms (hallucinations and delusions) which could be better explained as a part of a toxic, metabolic or infection-induced delirium /encephalopathy , psychosis due to substance abuse, psychosis associated with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or psychotic depression;
2. Subject who was likely to have an allergy or sensitivity to pimavanserin based on known allergies to drugs of the same class;
3. Subject who had previously been randomized in any prior clinical study with pimavanserin, and/or received of any other investigational;
4. Subject with a history of significant psychotic disorders prior to or concomitantly with the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease including, but not limited to, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder;
5. Subjects had a significant risk of excitability or committing suicide based on the investigator's judgement; Any suicidal behavior in the year prior to or during screening; Subjects with a Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) positive response to suicidal ideation items 4, or 5 are not eligible during the screening period.
6. Subject with atypical Parkinsonism (Parkinson's plus, MSA, PSP), or secondary parkinsonism variants such as tardive or medication induced parkinsonism;
7. Subject who had received previous ablative stereotaxic surgery (i.e., pallidotomy and thalamotomy) to treat Parkinson's disease;
8. Had a score on the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) of \<21;
9. Subject who had dementia prior to or concomitantly with the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease that may be inconsistent with a PD diagnosis;
10. Subject who had history of cerebrovascular ischemic syndrome (stroke) that impairs their ability to complete the MMSE;
11. Subject who was using any of the medications prohibited or restricted as described in(Prohibited and Restricted Concomitant Medications-below);
12. Subject who was on medications of antidepressant/anxiety known to prolong the QT interval, the dose of medication cannot be maintained for 21 days before the baseline period;
13. Subject who was on medications of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors,the dose of medication was not guaranteed to remain constant between the first 21 days of the baseline period and the last visit;
14. Subject who had current evidence of a serious and or unstable cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, renal, hematologic or other medical disorder, including cancer or malignancies,which would affect the subject's ability to participate in the study;
15. Subject who had a myocardial infarction in last six months or who had moderate to severe congestive heart failure (NYHA class III or IV);
16. Subject who had a screening and baseline electrocardiogram (ECG) with Bazett's corrected QT (QTcB) of greater than 460 msec if male or 470 msec if female or Subject who was known history or symptoms of long QT syndrome;
17. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or glutamic aminotransferase (AST) or total bilirubin (TBiL) in laboratory tests were higher than 2 times the upper limit of normal during screening or baseline. Or severe impairment of renal function (defined as creatinine clearance Ccr \< 30 ml/min. Creatinine clearance was calculated according to the Cockcroft-Gault formula); or other abnormal indicators in laboratory tests have clinical significance and are judged by the investigators to have safety risks;
18. Subject who was pregnant or breastfeeding.,female subjects of childbearing potential who have positive pregnancy test results;
19. Subject who had any surgery planned during the screening, treatment or follow-up periods;
20. Subject who had participated in any clinical trial and used investigational drug within 4 weeks prior to enrollment;
21. The investigator considered that the subjects had poor compliance or other factors that made it inappropriate to participate in the clinical trial.
Minimum Eligible Age

40 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Tasly Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Rui Liu

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Tianjin Tasly Sants Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd

Locations

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The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University

Hefei, Anhui, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Beijing Hospital

Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Xuan Wu Hospital

Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Peking University Sixth Hospital

Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

Site Status RECRUITING

The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University

Chongqing, Chongqing Municipality, China

Site Status RECRUITING

The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University

Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Guangdong Provincial Peoples Hospital

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Site Status RECRUITING

The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University

Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Site Status RECRUITING

The Second Hospital of HeBei Medical University

Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Site Status RECRUITING

The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University

Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Site Status RECRUITING

The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University

Changsha, Hunan, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Hospital

Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Huai'an Second People's Hospital

Huaian, Jiangsu, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Zhongda Hospital Southeast University

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Site Status RECRUITING

The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University

Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Site Status RECRUITING

The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University

Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Site Status RECRUITING

The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University

Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Site Status RECRUITING

The First Hospital of Jilin University

Changchun, Jilin, China

Site Status RECRUITING

The First Hospital of China Medical University

Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Site Status RECRUITING

People's Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Yinchuan, Ningxia, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Qilu Hospital of Shandong University

Jinan, Shandong, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Qilu Hospital of Shandong University(Qingdao)

Qingdao, Shandong, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Ruijin Hospital

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Site Status RECRUITING

West China Hospital of Sichuan University

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Mianyang Central Hospital

Mianyang, Sichuan, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Tianjin Huanhu Hospital

Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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China

Central Contacts

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Rui Liu

Role: CONTACT

00-86-022-86343626

Facility Contacts

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Kai Wang

Role: primary

Haibo Chen

Role: primary

Hong Sun

Role: primary

Xinyu Sun

Role: primary

Oumei Chen

Role: primary

Ning Wang

Role: primary

Lijuan Wang

Role: primary

Lijun Cai

Role: primary

Yaling Liu

Role: primary

Yuming Xu

Role: primary

Lifang Lei

Role: primary

Runxiu Zhu

Role: primary

Liandong Zhao

Role: primary

Yun Xu

Role: primary

Baoyu Yuan

Role: primary

Chunfeng Liu

Role: primary

Guiyun Cui

Role: primary

Wei Huang

Role: primary

Yin Zhang

Role: primary

Chuansheng Zhao

Role: primary

Yuan Wu

Role: primary

Yiming Liu

Role: primary

Cuiping Zhao

Role: primary

Shengdi Chen

Role: primary

Huifang Shang

Role: primary

Yufeng Tang

Role: primary

Lei Chen

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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TSL-CM-JSSPMFSL-Ⅲ

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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