Treatment of Geriatric Bipolar Mood Disorders: A Pilot Study

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to collect pilot data on the feasibility of recruiting, eliciting informed consent, assessing, treating, and following patients aged 60 and older with bipolar mood disorders.

Clinical Trial Description

Study specific aims are:

- to establish a recruitment, referral, and collaborative network for elderly bipolar patients, in collaboration with the NIMH funded STEP-BD

- to establish an outpatient treatment clinic at the Bellefield Towers site of the NIMH funded Intervention Research Center for Late Life Mood Disorders

- to implement standardized care pathways compatible with STEP-BD treatment algorithms for mood stabilizing pharmacotherapy.

- to document short- and long-term treatment response with respect to affective symptoms, sleep, general life functioning, cognition, treatment-emergent side effects

- to establish the clinical infrastructure necessary for randomized controlled clinical trials and for clinical research training in bipolar mood disorders of late-life. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT00177567
Study type	Interventional
Source	University of Pittsburgh
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	Phase 4
Start date	July 2001
Completion date	January 2004

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