Prospective Observational Study to Evaluate Secukinumab Treatment Effectiveness in Pediatric Patients With Active Juvenile Enthesitis-related or Psoriatic Arthritis

N/ANot Yet RecruitingNCT06431750

Novartis Pharmaceuticals150 enrolled

Overview

This is a multicenter, non-interventional, cohort study in pediatric patients with active juvenile enthesitis-related or psoriatic arthritis

Rheumatologists and pediatricians actively managing pediatric Enthesitis-related Arthritis (ERA) and Juvenile Psoriatic Arthritis (jPsA) in different regions of Russia are planned to participate in the study. To be include in this study, physicians must consult more than 10 pediatric patients with ERA/jPsA in a typical month. Any pediatric patients with active ERA/jPsA who started secukinumab treatment (index date) within 4-8 weeks prior to inclusion can be enrolled. At the inclusion retrospective data collection is planned, then data will be collected 3 months of treatment), 6, 12, 18, and 24 months after index date. Therefore, maximum duration of prospective observation is expected to be 23 months. Data collection schedule fits routine (Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis) JIA management guidelines for patients receiving biologics stating that treatment effectiveness should be evaluated at 3 and 6 months after biologic initiation and every 6 months thereafter. At each visit effectiveness and tolerability parameters, as well as the patients' Quality of life (QoL) will be documented. Retrospective data will be collected for medical history and JIA treatment, including secukinumab before inclusion, as well to describe all necessary parameters since the Index date. Expected look-back period is 12 months. Initiation of secukinumab treatment will be considered the index date.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

150

Conditions

Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Interventions

SecukinumabOTHER

This is an observational study, there is no treatment allocation.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 6 YearsMax age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Written informed consent and legal representative's permission for study participation obtained prior to beginning of participation in the study. 2. Age ≥6 to \<18 years old. 3. Recognized physician diagnosis of active ERA or jPsA: * ERA per ILAR criteria: * Peripheral arthritis and enthesitis, or * Arthritis or enthesitis, plus ≥ 3 months of inflammatory back pain and sacroiliitis on imaging, or * Arthritis or enthesitis plus 2 of the following: sacroiliac joint tenderness; inflammatory back pain; presence of HLA-B27 antigen; acute (symptomatic) anterior uveitis; and history of a spondyloarthritis in a first-degree relative. * jPsA per ILAR criteria * Arthritis and psoriasis, or * arthritis and at least 2 of the following: * Dactylitis * Nail pitting or onycholysis * Psoriasis in a first-degree relative. 4. Patient was prescribed with secukinumab within 4-8 weeks before inclusion. 5. Decision for secukinumab prescription was made by the attending physician according to the approved national label during routine clinical practice, regardless of this non-interventional study conduct. 6. The Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) Skin Test for Tuberculosis and/or Negative T-SPOT test and/or TB-feron test before secukinumab treatment and every 6 months. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Known or suspected severe hypersensitivity for secukinumab, formulation excipients, or injection device components (i.e., latex). 2. Chronic recurrent infections. 3. Clinically significant infection exacerbation, including active tuberculosis. 4. Age \<6 years or ≥18 years. 5. Pregnancy and breastfeeding. 6. Patients participating in parallel in an interventional clinical trial. 7. Patients participating in parallel in other Novartis-sponsored non-interventional study generating primary data for secukinumab. 8. Patients within the safety follow-up phase of interventional study. 9. Active inflammatory bowel disease at inclusion. 10. Patients who received any vaccine within 4 weeks prior to secukinumab initiation. 11. Any medical or psychological condition in the investigator's opinion which may prevent the study participation. 12. Concomitant conditions (Candida infections, other infections, inflammatory bowel disease \[IBD\], uveitis, skin and nail psoriasis for ERA patients, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, tuberculosis).

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Drug survival rate

Drug survival is defined as time from the index date (defined as secukinumab treatment initiation) until discontinuation of secukinumab

Time frame: 24 months

American College of Rheumatology pediatric (ACR Pedi) 30/50/70/90 achievement rates

The ACR Pedi 30/50/70/90 is defined as a minimum of 30/50/70/90 percent improvement from baseline in a minimum of 3 out of 6 components, with no more than 1 component worsening by \>30/50/70/90 percent. The ACR Pedi consists of 6 core criteria: 1. physician global assessment (PGA) of disease activity (visual analog scale \[VAS\]) where 0 represents no disease activity and 100 represents the most disease activity 2. assessment of overall well-being (VAS) where 0 represents very well and 100 represents very poor for overall well-being 3. functional ability (assessed using the Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire \[CHAQ\]); 4. number of joints with active arthritis (defined as joints with swelling not caused by deformity or joints, in the absence of swelling, with limitation of passive motion accompanied by pain, tenderness, or both) 5. number of joints with limited range of motion 6. laboratory marker of inflammation (C-reactive protein \[CRP\]).

Time frame: Month 3, Month 6, Month 12, Month 18, and Month 24

Clinical remission/inactive disease rates by Wallace criteria

To state the absence of disease activity (inactive phase of the disease), the patient must meet all of the listed criteria. * absence of joints with active arthritis, * absence of fever, rash, serositis, splenomegaly or generalized lymphadenopathy typical of juvenile arthritis; * absence of active uveitis, * normal ESR and (or) CRP, * absence of disease activity according to the doctor's general assessment (VAS), * morning stiffness less than 15 minutes.

Time frame: Month 3, Month 6, Month 12, Month 18, and Month 24

Secondary Outcomes

Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) score

Describes the child's usual activities in eight domains over the past week. It include dressing, getting up, eating, walking, hygiene, reaching overhead objects, grip and activities. Each question is scored from 0 to 3 (0 = no difficulty, 1 = some difficulty, 2 = much difficulty and 3 = unable to do). The score for each of the eight functional areas will be averaged to calculate the disability index.

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