Conditions: Schizophrenia
Keywords: Schizophrenia Paliperidone Extended Release
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 480
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between achieving symptomatic remission status by means of the 8 items of Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), and personal and social functioning by means of the Personal and Social Performance (PSP) scale in participants treated with flexibly dosed paliperidone ER.

Detailed description:
This is an open label (all people know the identity of the intervention), multicenter (when more than one hospital or medical school team work on a medical research study) and prospective (study following participants forward in time) 12-week study. Participants can be either in- or outpatients. The total study duration will be 12 weeks for each participant and will include following visits: Screening, Week 0, 4, 8, and 12 (end of treatment or early withdrawal). Throughout the study, participants will receive paliperidone ER in a flexible dosing range of 3 to 12 milligram per day (mg/day). Efficacy will primarily be evaluated by PANSS and PSP scale. Participants' safety will also be monitored throughout the study.

Arms:
arm 1: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Paliperidone ER
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Participants will receive paliperidone ER tablet in flexible dose range of 3 to 12 milligram per day (mg/day) orally once daily up to Week 12 as per Investigator's discretion.

Protocol document: