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Clinical Trial Details — Status: Suspended

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NCT number NCT01100632
Other study ID # GEREMS0310
Secondary ID Version 01 - Mar
Status Suspended
Phase Phase 3
First received April 7, 2010
Last updated October 26, 2010
Start date September 2010
Est. completion date December 2010

Study information

Verified date April 2010
Source L.A.L Clinica Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Ltda.
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority Brazil: National Health Surveillance Agency
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

We hope that with the drug, patients obtain reduced levels of stress and fatigue, according to the scales that we use in the study. Hopefully the results of the treated group are significantly higher than the control group (placebo).


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Suspended
Enrollment 300
Est. completion date December 2010
Est. primary completion date November 2010
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Agree with all study procedures, signing the IC in two ways;

- Patients older than 18 years, male or female, regardless of ethnicity or social class;

- Presence of mild to moderate stress, confirmed with the Stress Symptom Inventory (ISS);

- Presence of staff fatigue with a score greater than 36 according to the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS).

Exclusion Criteria:

Constitute exclusion criteria of the study:

- Participation in clinical trials in the 12 months preceding the survey;

- Current treatment with drugs that are stimulants or central nervous system depressants such as hypnotics, anxiolytics, antipsychotics, antidepressants, statins and muscle relaxants;

- Alternative therapies that scientifically, or have no influence in the tables of stress or fatigue as color therapy, acupuncture or relaxing massages;

- Treatment psychotherapeutic medication or not;

- Current treatment or prediction of treatment with oral anticoagulants (due to interaction with the tocopherol);

- Women who are pregnant or lactating;

- Patients with lactose intolerance;

- Patients allergic to soy or peanuts;

- chronic renal failure;

- Patients using other multivitamins or individual vitamins such as vitamin D and / or A.

- Chronic alcoholism;

- Patients with clinical diagnosis of diseases causing severe chronic pain or adversely affect the clinical interpretation as fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, neuropathies and myopathies;

- Patients with hypothyroidism or hyperthyreosis diagnosed clinically;

- Patient history and physical examination suggestive of severe hepatorenal failure;

- Patients with decompensated diabetes mellitus (fasting glucose above 180 mg / dL);

- Patients undergoing treatment for cancer;

- Amendment of the routine of life during the study as early vacation or suspected change in working hours;

- Patients with complaints of excessive sleepiness caused by organic disease such as sleep apnea and morbid obesity (BMI above 35);

- History of hypersensitivity to any component of the product under investigation;

- Any finding of clinical observation (clinical history or physical examination) that is interpreted by the physician investigator as a risk to the patient's participation in the study.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Dietary Supplement:
Ginseng, vitamins, minerals
2 capsules per day
Other:
Placebo - Gelatin capsule
2 capsules per day

Locations

Country Name City State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
L.A.L Clinica Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Ltda.

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Reduction of stress and fatigue Stress: ISS Scale will be assessed by the scale - Inventory of Symptoms of Stress in the time selection / screening, 14 and 28 days ± 2 days of treatment.
Fatigue: FSS Scale will be assessed by the scale - Fatigue Severity Scale Selection in The Times / Triage, 14 and 28 days ± 2 days of treatment.
14 and 28 days No
Secondary Quality of life and Sexual Function c) Quality of life: the quality of life of patients will be assessed using the Short Form 36 questionnaire (SF-36) during the period included 14 and 28 days ± 2 days of treatment.
d) Sexual function: evaluation of possible changes in libido or sexual performance that this drug will develop will be made by direct questioning by the doctor to the patient inclusion period 14 and 28 days ± 2 days of treatment.
14 and 28 days No