AMP SCZ® Observational Study: PREDICT-DPACC

Psychosis Clinical Trial

— AMP SCZ  

Official title:

Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia Observational Study: Psychosis Risk Evaluation, Data Integration, and Computational Technologies -Data Processing, Analysis, and Coordination Center and Coordination Center

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05905003
• Other study ID #: 2020P002267
• Secondary ID: U24MH124629U01MH
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: June 2, 2022
• Est. completion date: May 31, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: June 2023
• Source: Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Contact: Martha E Shenton, Ph.D.
• Phone: 617-699-6152
• Email: shenton[@]bwh.harvard.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia (AMP® SCZ) is a large international collaboration to develop algorithms using a set of clinical and cognitive assessments, multi-modal biomarkers, and clinical endpoints that can be used to predict the trajectories and outcomes of individuals at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis and to advance the testing of pharmacological interventions for CHR individuals in need. The goal is to accurately predict which individuals are likely to remit, experience an acute psychotic episode, or have intermediate outcomes that feature persistent attenuated psychotic and/or mood symptoms along with functional impairment. The prediction algorithms will have the potential to serve as early indicators of treatment efficacy in CHR persons.

The AMP SCZ research program is made up of the Psychosis Risk Evaluation, Data Integration, and Computational Technologies - Data Processing, Analysis and Coordination Center (PREDICT-DPACC) and two clinical research networks, the Psychosis-Risk Outcomes Network (ProNET) and the Trajectories and Predictors in the Clinical High Risk for Psychosis Population: Prediction Scientific Global Consortium (PRESCIENT) networks. The two clinical research networks will recruit a large cohort of CHR young people aged 12-30 years (n=1,977) and healthy control (HC) participants (n=640) across 42 participating investigative sites from 13 countries. CHR participants will complete screening, baseline assessments and a battery of follow-up assessments across 18 - 24 months. HC participants will complete screening and baseline assessments and a subset (5 per site) will complete month 2, 12 and 24 visits.

Description:

The Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP®) is a public-private partnership between the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the European Medicines Agency, and multiple public and private organizations. The goal of the AMP Schizophrenia (AMP SCZ) program, a multi-continent consortium, is to develop a deep biomarker-informed functional characterization and longitudinal clinical profiling of study participants at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis. The data will support the development of algorithms of clinical and biological measures to predict the trajectories and outcomes of CHR individuals to identify enriched CHR patient populations to enable proof of principle intervention studies for early intervention in schizophrenia. These tools will allow the assessment of biomarkers and outcome measures as early indicators of pharmacologic treatment efficacy. See the AMP SCZ website link for a detailed description of study goals (https://www.ampscz.org/about/goals/).

The Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia Observational Study: Psychosis Risk Evaluation, Data Integration, and Computational Technologies Data Processing, Analysis and Coordination Center (AMP SCZ® Observational Study: PREDICT-DPACC) based out of Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Mass General Brigham (MGB) is one of three research projects supported by the AMP SCZ program.

The AMP SCZ Observational Study: PREDICT-DPACC works with two Clinical High Risk (CHR) research networks (described below) to meet the following goals:

• Capture data from the research networks in a uniform manner.

• Build flexible infrastructure to accommodate multiple data types.

• Develop and refine pipelines that provide rapid data processing (in close to real-time) and quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC).

• Provide data coordination, management, and monitoring of data.

• Develop powerful and robust stratification tools to identify & validate biomarkers and predict individual outcome trajectories.

• Assist in archiving data and making it publicly available in the NIMH Data Archive (NDA). Please see (https://nda.nih.gov/ampscz/).

• Disseminate information, including tools developed, to the general research community, and provide outreach to the community via a website.

MGB institutions do not provide or enroll participants for this study but serve as the AMP SCZ DPACC for two CHR Research Networks (RNs) where consent and all clinical testing and data collection occur. MGB is a data recipient only, not a data provider. The Mass General Brigham IRB is the IRB of record for the AMP SCZ® Observational Study: PREDICT-DPACC and the IRB status is exempt.

The two CHR research networks (RNs) that also make up the AMP SCZ program are:

The Psychosis-Risk Outcomes Network (ProNET) is based out of Yale University, which serves as the hub for this network and consists of a network of sites in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Northwell Health is the IRB of record for all US sites in the ProNET RN. All foreign ProNET sites submit to their local IRBs.

The Trajectories and Predictors in the Clinical High Risk for Psychosis Population:

Prediction Scientific Global Consortium (PRESCIENT), is based out of the Center for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and at Orygen, Melbourne, Australia, which serves as the hub for this network, and consists of a network of sites in Australia, Europe, and Asia. The Melbourne Health Research Governance and Ethics Office for Research is the IRB of record for all Australian sites in the PRESCIENT research network. European and Asian sites submit to their local IRBs.

Acquisition Sites collect the data and transfer it directly to Brigham and Women's Hospital, which is the main site for the Data Processing Analysis and Coordination Center (DPACC).

See the AMP SCZ website for a searchable map with contact information for all study sites (https://www.ampscz.org/about/map/). Please also see the AMP SCZ website for additional information about the ProNET and PRESCIENT research networks and the PREDICT-DPACC coordination center (https://www.ampscz.org/about/networks-coordination/).

This is a non-interventional study examining clinical trajectories and predictors of outcomes in the CHR population. The CHR cohort and HCs will be assessed with a core set of measures at baseline and 2 months post-baseline, with additional assessments completed at other time points. CHR subjects will be assessed longitudinally for 2 years. Participants who develop first-episode psychosis ('converted' cases) during their study participation will continue to be assessed as scheduled. Measures include clinical, cognitive, neurophysiology, neuroimaging, genetics and fluid biomarkers, speech and facial expression (audio/video recordings are optional), and outcome assessments. Digital assessments such as daily ecological momentary assessment (daily digital diary entries) and passive sensing measurements (actigraphy and geolocation) are optional. See the AMP SCZ website for detailed descriptions of the study design (https://www.ampscz.org/scientists/design/) and protocol (https://www.ampscz.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/AMP-SCZ-Protocol-Summary-for-Distribution_ 24JAN2023.pdf).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 2617
• Est. completion date: May 31, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 12 Years to 30 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Individuals between 12 and 30 years old;

• Understand and sign an informed consent (or assent for minors) document;

• Meet diagnostic criteria for CHR from the Positive SYmptoms and Diagnostic Criteria for the CAARMS Harmonized with the SIPS (PSYCHS).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Antipsychotic medication exposure equivalent to a total lifetime haloperidol dose of >50 mg or current antipsychotic medication at time of screening assessment;

• Documented history of intellectual disability;

• Past or current clinically relevant central nervous system disorder;

• Traumatic brain injury that is rated as 7 or above on the Traumatic Brain Injury screening instrument;

• Current or past treated or untreated psychotic episode, as determined using the PSYCHS.

See also the AMP SCZ website link for a description of eligibility criteria (https://www.ampscz.org/participate/eligible/).

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Clinical High Risk
• Mental Disorders
• Psychosis
• Psychotic Disorders
• Remission

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Australia	HEP and co-located Headspace Adelaide	Adelaide	South Australia
Australia	Headspace, Craigieburn	Craigieburn	Victoria
Australia	Headspace, Glenroy	Glenroy	Victoria
Australia	Headspace Melton	Melton South	Victoria
Australia	Orygen Specialist Programs, Melbourne	Parkville	Victoria
Australia	Headspace, Sunshine	Sunshine	Victoria
Australia	Headspace, Werribee	Werribee	Victoria
Canada	University of Calgary	Calgary	Alberta
Canada	McGill University	Montréal	Quebec
Chile	Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile (HCUCH)	Santiago	Región Metropolitana
China	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Shanghai
Denmark	Copenhagen Research Center for Mental Health (CORE)	Copenhagen
Germany	Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, University of Cologne	Cologne	Brescia
Germany	The University Hospital Jena, Department of Psychiatry	Jena	Thuringia
Germany	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich	Munich
Hong Kong	The University of Hong Kong, Department of Psychiatry	Hong Kong
Italy	University of Pavia	Pavia
Korea, Republic of	Department of Psychiatry, Chonnam National University Hospital & Mindlink	Gwangju
Korea, Republic of	Seoul National University College of Medicine	Seoul
Singapore	Early Psychosis Intervention Programme (EPIP) Clinic, Institute of Mental Health	Singapore
Spain	Instituto de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón	Madrid
Switzerland	Treatment and Early Intervention in Psychosis Program (TIPP) & Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience (CNP), Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital	Lausanne
United Kingdom	Forward Thinking Birmingham	Birmingham
United Kingdom	University of Cambridge	Cambridge
United Kingdom	King's College London	London
United States	University of Georgia	Athens	Georgia
United States	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Boston	Massachusetts
United States	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	North Carolina
United States	University of Oregon	Eugene	Oregon
United States	Northwestern University	Evanston	Illinois
United States	Hartford Healthcare	Hartford	Connecticut
United States	University of California Irvine	Irvine	California
United States	University of California Los Angeles	Los Angeles	California
United States	Yale University/Connecticut Mental Health Center	New Haven	Connecticut
United States	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	New York	New York
United States	Temple University	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
United States	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
United States	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania
United States	Northwell Health	Queens	New York
United States	Washington University	Saint Louis	Missouri
United States	University of California San Diego	San Diego	California
United States	University of California San Francisco	San Francisco	California

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Brigham and Women's Hospital	National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Orygen, Yale University

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  Australia,  Canada,  Chile,  China,  Denmark,  Germany,  Hong Kong,  Italy,  Korea, Republic of,  Singapore,  Spain,  Switzerland,  United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Conversion to Psychosis	Conversion to psychosis as defined by psychosis threshold criteria on the PSYCHS.	By 24 month follow-up.
Secondary	Remission	Recovery from CHR as defined by PSYCHS criteria.	By 24 month follow-up.
Secondary	Non-conversion/Non-remission	Continued CHR condition as defined by PSYCHS criteria.	By 24 month follow-up.

External Links

•   The website conveys an overview of the aims and activities of the program for consumption by researchers, potential help seeking patients and their families as well as clinicians and clinics looking to update best practice guidelines.