Conditions: Schizophrenia
Keywords: Schizophrenia Paliperidone Extended-release Paliperidone R076477
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 289
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to evaluate improvement and efficacy of paliperidone extended-release for subjective well-being and drug attitudes of participants, when switching from oral antipsychotics in participants with schizophrenia (psychiatric disorder with symptoms of emotional instability, detachment from reality, often with delusions and hallucinations, and withdrawal into the self).

Detailed description:
This is an open-label (all people know the identity of the intervention), multi-centric (conducted in more than one center), prospective (study following participants forward in time), and non-comparative study, in participants with schizophrenia. The study consists of following parts: Screening (that is, 14 days before study commences on Day 1); Acute Treatment phase (24 weeks); Extension phase 1 (24 weeks), which will be followed by additional Extension phase 2 (48 weeks). Total study duration per participant will be 96 weeks. Efficacy will primarily be evaluated by change from Baseline in Subjective Well-being Under Neuroleptic (SWN-20) Scale score and change from Baseline in Drug Attitude Inventory scores. Participants' safety will be monitored throughout the study.

Arms:
arm 1: Paliperidone Extended-Release (ER) oral tablet will be administered once daily at a starting dose of 6 milligram (mg) for 24 weeks, wherein dose range will be 3 to 12 mg per day.

Interventions: intervention 1: Paliperidone
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Paliperidone ER oral tablet will be administered once daily at a starting dose of 6 milligram (mg) for 24 weeks, wherein dose range will be 3 to 12 mg per day.

Protocol document: