The goal of this clinical study is to compare ulixacaltamide and placebo treatment in essential tremor. The main question it aims to answer is: • Is ulixacaltamide a safe and efficacious treatment for patients with essential tremor? Participants will be asked to participate in one of two clinical studies where they will be treated with either ulixacaltamide or placebo for a period of up to 12 weeks. After the controlled study completion, they will be eligible to participate in a long-term, open-label safety study (LTSS) and be treated with ulixacaltamide. Participants are eligible to enroll directly into the LTSS if they previously participated in an essential tremor trial, received sponsor invitation after being deemed ineligible for the controlled study, or following enrollment closure of the controlled study.
PRAX-944-321 is a decentralized, Phase 3, multi-study, clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of ulixacaltamide in essential tremor (ET). The study includes 3 separate and simultaneous phase 3 pivotal studies where all participants undergo one screening process. The first study is a parallel design (PD) enrolling approximately 400 patients, the second is a randomized withdrawal (RW) enrolling approximately 200 patients and the last is a long-term safety study (LTSS) comprising up to 1000 patients. A total of 4 key efficacy hypotheses are being tested prospectively in the study. The analysis will be conducted simultaneously, with unblinding only occurring once. Hypotheses - 1) how do patients compare between ulixacaltamide and placebo after 56 days of intervention in the PD study, 2) for patients exposed to ulixacaltamide in the RW study who improved by at least 3 points in the mADL11 scale, which proportion maintains response after randomization staying on ulixacaltamide compared to placebo after re-randomization at day 56, 3) how does the pooled group of patients receiving ulixacaltamide in both studies (PD and RW) compare to placebo patients from the parallel design study after 56 days of intervention, 4) how do patients receiving ulixacaltamide in the RW study compare to placebo patients from the PD study after 56 days of intervention.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Enrollment
1,000
Once daily oral treatment with titration
Once daily oral treatment
United BioSource LLC
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
Parallel Design: Change from Baseline (CFB) to Week 8 (Day 56) on mADL11 score
Modified Activities of Daily Living 11 (mADL11) is a composite sum of items 1 to 11 of the TETRAS-ADL subscale. The impact to each function is rated on a 5-point Likert scale from 0 to 4. Before calculating the total score, a scoring adjustment is applied to each item score. The modified score is calculated as the sum of all 11 items (with scoring adjustments) and ranges from 0 to 33 where larger values represent increased direct tremor impact to activities of daily living.
Time frame: 8 weeks (56 days)
Randomized Withdrawal: The proportion of participants that maintain response, as defined by change in mADL11 score, following randomized withdrawal
Modified Activities of Daily Living 11 (mADL11) is a composite sum of items 1 to 11 of the TETRAS-ADL subscale. The impact to each function is rated on a 5-point Likert scale from 0 to 4. Before calculating the total score, a scoring adjustment is applied to each item score. The modified score is calculated as the sum of all 11 items (with scoring adjustments) and ranges from 0 to 33 where larger values represent increased direct tremor impact to activities of daily living. Change in patient response will compare the proportion of patients in the ulixacaltamide and placebo arm who maintain response based on RW baseline established at Week 8 (Day 56) following randomized withdrawal.
Time frame: 12 weeks (84 days)
Long-term Safety Study: Number of participants with Adverse Events (AE) and their severity.
The number of participants with Adverse Events (AE) will be reported by preferred term
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Parallel Design: Rate of Disease improvement as Measured by mADL11
Compare the rate of disease improvement through Day 84 of ulixacaltamide and placebo arms, as measured by the slope of mADL11 over time.
Time frame: 12 weeks (84 days)
Parallel Design: PGI-C Change at Week 8 (Day 56)
PGI-C assesses the participant's change in condition since baseline. The participant is required to assess their condition relative to Baseline (Pre-dose on Day 1) on a 7-point scale from 1 (very much improved) to 7 (very much worse). In all cases, the assessment should be made independent of whether the participant believes the change is drug-related or not.
Time frame: 8 weeks (56 Days)
Parallel Design: CGI-S Change from Baseline to Week 8 (Day 56)
CGI-S assesses the clinician's impression of the participant's current illness state. The clinician should use his/her total clinical experience with this patient population and rate the current severity of the participant's ET on a 7-point scale from 1 (normal, not at all ill) to 7 (among the most extremely ill patients).
Time frame: 8 weeks (56 Days)
Randomized Withdrawal: Rate of Disease Improvement as Measured by Slope of mADL11 from Day 56 to Day 84
Compare the rate of disease improvement from Day 56 to Day 84 of ulixacaltamide and placebo arms.
Time frame: 4 weeks (28 days)
Randomized Withdrawal: PGI-C at Day 84
PGI-C assesses the participant's change in condition. The participant is required to assess their condition relative to Baseline on a 7-point scale from 1 (very much improved) to 7 (very much worse). In all cases, the assessment should be made independent of whether the participant believes the change is drug-related or not.
Time frame: 4 weeks (28 days)
Randomized Withdrawal: CGI-S Change from RW Baseline (Day 56) to Day 84
CGI-S assesses the clinician's impression of the participant's current illness state. The clinician should use is/her total clinical experience with this patient population and rate the current severity of the participant's ET on a 7-point scale from 1 (normal, not at all ill) to 7 (among the most extremely ill patients).
Time frame: 4 weeks (28 days)
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