Skip to content
WithdrawnNot applicable

Ketamine Use in Electroconvulsive Therapy

NCT02012335 · Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Closed to entry
Status
Not accepting participants
Not applicable
Phase
Target enrolment
1
Study sites
Outside the US

What it is testing

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether combination of ketamine plus electroconvulsive therapy improves depressive symptoms decreasing cognitive side effects.

Summary as written by the trial’s own sponsor and published on ClinicalTrials.gov API v2. It is the sponsor’s description, reproduced unedited, not an assessment by this site.

What counts as success

Primary outcome measures

  • Hamilton Depression Scale (HAM-D) 17 change

    Measured over Baseline, week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4, and at the end of hospital stay, an expected average of 5 weeks

A trial succeeds or fails on its primary outcome, declared in advance. Everything else it reports is secondary by definition.

Who can take part

Eligibility, as published

18 Years
Ages
All
Sex
Not accepted
Healthy volunteers
Inclusion criteria \- Patients with unipolar and bipolar depression from The Psychiatric Unit of Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (diagnosis will be established by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I) Exclusion criteria: * Patients with dementia * History of addiction / abuse of psychoactive drugs * Other psychiatric diagnoses * Refusal to follow the study.

Where

1 study site

FacilityCityRegionCountry
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul / Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA)Porto AlegreRio Grande do SulBrazil

On the registry

Contact the trial directly

This site does not enrol anyone and is not involved in this trial. To ask about taking part, use the sponsor’s own contact details on the official registry record, which is also where the most current version of everything above lives.

Before you do, the preparation checklist lists what a site will ask you on a first call and what is worth asking them. It is free and collects nothing.

NCT02012335 on ClinicalTrials.gov →

Last updated in the registry 2015-03-19. Registry records change; this page reflects the data build of 2026-08-25.

Related

Where this trial sits