Conditions: Asthma
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 672
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study is a placebo-controlled study with 8-weeks of double-blind treatment of mometasone furoate dry powder inhaler (MF DPI) 200 mcg twice daily (BID) using two different inhalers, preceded by the Screening Period and by 2 weeks of open-label treatment with one inhalation of MF DPI 200 mcg twice daily in corticosteroid-dependent asthmatic subjects. The objective of this study is to evaluate the therapeutic equivalency of the 100 mcg and 200 mcg MF DPIs when providing the same total daily dose (400 mcg/day).

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: 2 inhalations of mometasone furoate dry powder inhaler (MF DPI) 100 mcg plus 1 inhalation of placebo matching MF DPI 200 mcg twice daily (BID) for 8 weeks arm 2: 1 inhalation of mometasone furoate dry powder inhaler (MF DPI) 200 mcg plus 2 inhalations of placebo matching MF DPI 100 mcg twice daily (BID) for 8 weeks arm 3: 2 inhalations of placebo matching mometasone furoate dry powder inhaler (MF DPI) 100 mcg plus 1 inhalation of placebo matching MF DPI 200 mcg twice daily (BID) for 8 weeks

Interventions: intervention 1: Mometasone furoate dry powder inhaler intervention 2: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None intervention 2: None

Protocol document: